Electric vehicles powered only by the sun – for Aachen students, this is not a vision of the future, but a reality already lived today. As one of more than forty solar racing teams from all over the world, Team Sonnenwagen Aachen is developing its own solar car for participation in the World Solar Challenge 2021 in Australia to show the world that innovative and sustainable mobility concepts are already fit for use.

Plan Shop is an affiliate of Plan International – the leading organization for private sponsors supporting children in need. Plan Shop distributes high-quality products made by artisans from developing countries, providing them with a sustainable income. For more and more families – especially women and their children – Plan Shop projects have become the path to overcome poverty and getting access to education. This spirit is summed up in the slogan “Trade for Peace”.

NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium electric vehicle market. Founded in November 2014, NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next-generation technologies in connectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services.

Electricat, the solar-electric catamaran, blazes a trail toward a new segment of “solar sailors”, which are quickly gaining in popularity.

Its range is double that of a traditional catamaran and it is much faster as well.

The Electricat is designed for optimum performance on calm waters, primarily lakes and rivers. It is ultra-lightweight and uses electricity with incredible efficiency. The solar panels on its roof allow you to keep sailing all day in sunny weather, with no need to hook up to a power source at night.

Mobility is currently undergoing a process of change. Electrification and thus renouncing the exclusive use of fossil fuels as well as developments in the field of urban air mobility are all present.
FORMULA AIR GRAND PRIX is currently developing a never seen air race spectacle in which several VTOLs can compete for the championship. It will thus become the stage for these technologies, thus increasing the necessary visibility of the performance and safety behind them among the general public.

Conrad Electronic is committed to sustainability on many levels. It is particularly important to inspire young people with STEM topics and to motivate them to actively shape the future of our society. Regarding this, Conrad works closely with educational institutions and educators and, beyond that, offers specific training and workshops.

At GREENTECH FESTIVAL, our workshops for pupils will focus on sustainable urban development through modern transport and logistics concepts.The students will develop autonomous robot vehicles and design a “city of the future” in which these modern mobility concepts must prove themselves.

The Drivery opened in March 2019 as a marketplace for mobility innovators to provide the modern infrastructure needed for rapid innovation and as a meeting place for the European mobility community. Now, The Drivery is home to almost 100 start-ups focused entirely on mobility within the European tech ecosystem. Located in Berlin with a space of over 10,000 m² (and growing), The Drivery includes high-tech prototyping maker garages, a GPU farm that provides excessive processing power for AI development, and co-working, office and event spaces.

QEV Technologies is a global electro mobility and automotive technology company based in Barcelona. They offer solutions for countries with a similar developmental environment and challenges as the Philippines – dense cities with minibuses as the main form of transportation.

In 2017, QEV Technologies designed the Astrokit: an electric powertrain kit to fully electrify a vehicle. It has been used in the conversion of combustion engine vehicles, like the Jeepneys in the Philippines, and as an off-the-shelf system to produce new electric vehicles like the COMET, a modern 30-passenger E.V. that uses state-of-the-art technology among new connectivity systems.

Plastic Bank® helps reduce ocean plastic and improves the lives of its collectors by building ethical recycling ecosystems in coastal communities all over the world. Collectors receive a premium for their plastic, helping provide for necessities such as groceries, fuel, tuition and healthcare. Plastic Bank provides real-time data, enabling transparency, traceability and rapid scalability. Collected material is reborn as Social Plastic® and reprocessed for the global manufacturing supply chain.

Bracenet is a start-up with the mission to save the seas. The Hamburg-based project rescues marine life and preserves ecosystems by recovering ghost nets, upcycling them into products such as bracelets (the Bracenets) or dog leashes by hand, and donating 10% to their partner organisation Healthy Seas. Further, Bracenet develops preventive solutions with NGOs, businesses, universities and authorities; and advises, for instance, Lufthansa and Werder Bremen on becoming more sustainable.

The aponix vertical barrel takes soilless equipment (NFT/gutters and tables) to the 3rd dimension enabling hyperlocal edible plant production without the need to build rack systems. The system uses the shape of vertical cylinders (the ‘barrels’) that are assembled by stacking ring segments to variable height and at the same time configuring the planting distance in a commercially usable format. The whole setup is based on lego-like pieces and can be used for various production setup – small or large.

Ocean Bottle makes reusable bottles that save our oceans. Each bottle is smart chip activated and funds collection of ocean-bound plastic, whilst setting up recycling infrastructure in coastal communities with high levels of plastic pollution around the world. Plastic collectors are able to exchange plastic waste for money or digital tokens via blockchain technology to spend on valuable rewards.

Mute-labs is a Berlin based manufacturer of soundproof phone booths for office spaces. Driven by the desire to develop a well designed phone booth that is both affordable yet well designed and manufactured sustainably, mute-labs set out to reinvent the product category. Only one year after launch, mute-labs has shipped its booths to DAX-30 companies, universities, unicorns and of course countless small start-ups. Fun fact: For every booth mute-labs sells, the team plants a tree. Themselves!

MOIA is an app-based on demand ridepooling service operating in Hamburg and Hanover. At MOIA, our goal is to contribute to a fundamental change in how people move in cities. With ridepooling, customers send a ride request via app. Within seconds an algorithm assigns it to an already existing ride. Then the customer shares the ride with others on a dynamic route. Booking and payment are made via the app and the price is displayed before the journey begins. By supplementing public transport and other mobility services, we create incentives to give up the private car. In this way, we help cities reduce air pollution, congestion, noise and space constraints, and achieve their sustainability goals.

BigRep develops the world’s largest serial production 3D printers, creating the industry benchmark for large-scale printing with the aim to reshape manufacturing. Its award-winning, German-engineered machines are establishing new standards in speed, reliability and efficiency. BigRep’s printers are the preferred choice of engineers, designers and manufacturers at leading companies in the industrial, automotive and aerospace sectors.

Polestar is the electric performance car brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding.Polestar enjoys specific technological and engineering synergies with Volvo Cars, which facilitates the successful design, development and production of separately-branded, electric performance cars. Polestar launched Polestar 1 –an Electric Performance Hybrid GT with 609 hp, 1,000 Nm and an electric-only range of 124 km (WLTP) –the longest of any hybrid car in the world. Polestar 2 was revealed as the company’s first full electric premium car.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals group headquartered in Cologne. With 58 production sites and around 15,500 employees in 33 countries, we are an established company on the global market. Our core competencies lie in the production, development and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics.LANXESS focuses on the requirements of our customers to drive progress and reliably deliver innovative product, material and service solutions. In the development of new materials, the company also relies on artificial intelligence to shorten development times for our customers. We design our manufacturing, administration and logistics processes to be efficient and performance-oriented.Sustainability and responsibility are success factors for our business activities. They help the company to become even more efficient and competitive and at the same time support social goals such as climate protection. The products, which provide sustainable solutions in key application areas such as electromobility, also contribute to this.The High Performance Materials business unit produces engineering plastics that are sold under the brand names Durethan®, Pocan® and Tepex®. Its biggest customers are the automotive and electrical & electronics industries, as well as the furniture and construction sectors.

Brose is the fourth-largest family-owned automotive supplier in the world. Every year, Brose supplies the automobile industry with around 200 million electric motors. This know-how has been transferred to the e-bike by the family business. Brose engineers have designed an innovative electric bicycle drive system that has been produced in Berlin since 2014. In this e-bike competence centre, development, sales, marketing and production of the drives all come together. Around 50 manufacturers worldwide already trust Brose e-bike drives. Through participation at events such as the “GREENTECH FESTIVAL” Brose aims at promoting “green mobility”. Berlin is home of Brose´s e-bike competence center and at the same time the perfect backdrop for exchanges on new urban mobility topics.

Ottobahn believes in green cities without traffic jams, no delayed, overcrowded trains, no people killed in traffic, no CO2 or micro plastics emissions from transportation. We are engineering an autonomous transportation system for people and goods, point-to-point with up to 240km/h. We are combining proven railway technology with individualized gondolas, 100% green energy powered. Our solution will give soil back to nature & people. Let’s make the world a better place!

Creating first-class products in fashion – and that out of waste! A mad idea? Not at all! Combining quality, an awareness of trends and a sense of responsibility towards the environment together, that’s the aim of the KUNERT BLUE collection. These innovative and unique hosiery products contribute to sustainably protecting the environment and eliminating waste also from the world’s seas. Ecological responsibility towards society and future generations has a long tradition at KUNERT.