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| The business ideas competition has also distinguished projects for 3D architectural recreation and waste collection at sea | Beatriz Miguel, rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, this morning presented the awards for the third edition of the Call to Solve Challenges, a program to accelerate business ideas of the UPCT.

The award-winning students have devised innovative and sustainable solutions to different challenges faced by today's society.The first prize has been for the recent Architecture graduate Sergio Navarro, for his project 'Carbon-0', in which he has developed the product 'Home Tree', a small plantation of less than one square meter to install at home and that It works as a biofilter with sufficient environmental performance to compensate for the six tons of C02 per year that each European citizen emits.

"The objective is to contribute to the fight against climate change and the loss of biodiversity, using protected plants", explains the student, who highlights that the product would require reduced maintenance and could incorporate digital functionalities.The 'Ingenius' project, from the already graduated in Building Engineering Rufino Esono, has obtained the second prize for its interactive applications and 3D visualization to help understand the construction process and facilitate the calculation of budgets and materials for small businesses and consumers for works.

The third award has been for the Naval Engineering student Iria Vicente for her project 'Sea Collector', a waste collection system at sea, similar to the mechanism of a swimming pool, using skimmers, integrated into a tower buoy.Two more projects carried out by Italian students have also been recognized with a second prize.

That of Dario Volpín, student of the Master in Business Administration (MBA) with an Arquimede scholarship who has devised a digital registry for buildings, and that of Daniela Napoli, an Erasmus student of Naval Engineering, for her project to collect plastics at sea.The 36 students who have participated in this edition of the UPCT business acceleration program have had online training in subjects such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Prototyping, online marketing or legal foundations, as well as mentoring on entrepreneurship and innovation to develop projects that address the themes framed in the challenges of society that the State Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation includes.The Call to Solve Challenges program is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Murcia Region Development Institute (INFO) and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).

This initiative seeks to detect business ideas that solve innovation challenges and help participants to develop them through training in entrepreneurship.The projects submitted to the contest were evaluated by representatives of the business and technological fabric of the Region of Murcia, such as the Institute of Promotion of the Region of Murcia (INFO), the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations of Cartagena (COEC), Murcia Open Future, Hub Carthago and the UPCT's own Office of Entrepreneurs and Technology-Based Companies.

Source: UPCT