METHA Europe competition and start-up pitch competition of the Institut Mines-Télécom » PACA’s economic and political newsletter
The Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) supports innovation through its network of academic incubators backed by its 8 schools.
As part of the Ever 2022 show, it promotes the development of start-ups with a project related to Smart Building, Smart City and Sustainable City. Its METHA Europe competition rewards project leaders through 3 different categories. It also co-organizes with Ever Monaco, SBLM, and MonacoTech, a start-up village where exhibitors can compete in a major pitch competition.
The finalists of the METHA Europe competition
Organized by IMT Nord Europe and supported by the Institut Mines-Télécom, METHA Europe is aimed at various innovators through 3 categories: “Students”, “Pre-creation” and “Startup”.
Student Category
– Traq-KING (Mines Saint-Etienne incubator): universal traceability for groupage of goods
Traq-KING is an open, light and ergonomic tracking solution for the road transport of goods, highlighting the routing chains where there is a lot of subcontracting and where information is limited. Traq-KING solves this problem by providing a single point of access for all stakeholders in the chain.
– Smart Assign (IMT Mines Albi incubator): Rail flow management software
The objective of Smart Assign is to develop a software solution allowing decision support, in real time, for the management of train assignments in stations.
– OX Blaster (Aix-Marseille University incubator): Depollution of outdoor air thanks to the transport sector
The purpose of this project is to purify the outside air by using the transport sector and eventually the automobile sector as a lever for action thanks to a filtering system that attaches to vehicles.
Category Before Creation
– Altere (IMT Mines Albi incubator): Solar concentrator kit providing renewable thermal energy to industry
Altere is a project for the manufacture and sale of a Fresnel-type solar concentrator, laudable in 3 years without subsidy and for the supply of renewable heat to industrialists.
– Turtle power: New generation of retarders for carbon-free electricity production
This involves designing speed-reducing devices that recover the kinetic and potential energy of moving vehicles and more particularly around towns, underground car parks, shopping centres, etc.
– Hydrogenis (IMT Nord Europe incubator): Chemical process for the production of carbon-free and renewable hydrogen
It is an oxidation-reduction process which makes it possible to produce hydrogen without CO2, in large quantities and at a competitive price. The particular parameterization of the reaction constitutes the innovation.
– Heliore: Solar thermal reinvented
Complementary to existing energy sources (gas, fuel oil, electricity, heat pumps, etc.), this technology makes it possible to cover 50 to 80% of the heating and hot water needs of buildings by boosting the power and synchronization of a solar thermal system.
Category Startup
– Line O (Mines Saint-Etienne incubator): For a sustainable city and habitat
For a city and a sustainable habitat, Lign.O aims to make the building sector much cleaner by increasing the use of wood in a sustainable and virtuous way (integrated into a sector) and the use of biosourced or reused materials. in short circuits in construction and renovation.
The team is exhibiting on stand 47.
– Swoop: An eco-responsible alternative to generators for professionals
Swoop aims to provide professionals and individuals with sustainable energy solutions by developing a product whose goal is to replace polluting generators (petrol/diesel) that are doomed to disappear.
– B-Flow (IMT-BS incubator / Télécom Sud Paris): Collecting and reporting construction site data
B-Flow aims to make life easier for engineers and workers on construction sites by allowing the generation of production reports and safety training content through the collection of field information in an intuitive way (mobile and web application).
The start-up is present on stand 51.
The Jury, delivered by Gilles Tonelli, Ambassador, Special Advisor in charge of negotiations with the European Union, will reveal the winners on Thursday May 28 at 2:15 p.m..
Pitch competition on the Start-up Village and Smart Building, Smart City and Sustainable City Awards
The exhibiting start-ups will compete in a pitch competition to win the Smart Building, Smart City and Sustainable City Prize. The Institut Mines-Télécom and MC2D offer a financial endowment which is supplemented by an endowment in the form of services from SBLM Ventures SAS and other partners.
Françoise Prêteux, Deputy Director for Research and Economic Development at the Institut Mines-Télécom is Honorary President of the Jury and will award the First Prize. The Jury will reveal its winners on Friday May 29 at 2:30 p.m.
Start-ups from Institut Mines-Télécom incubators are present on stands 46 to 53.
Contact on site :
Isabelle Ferlin
06 37 35 58 34
About the Institut Mines-Télécom www.imt.fr
Placed under the supervision of the Ministry in charge of the economy, industry and digital technology, the Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution of higher education and research comprising 8 major schools: IMT Atlantique, IMT Mines Albi, IMT Mines Alès, IMT Nord Europe, Institut Mines -Télécom Business School, Mines Saint Etienne, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis, 2 subsidiary schools: EURECOM and Insic and a network of strategic partners and affiliates. Its required activities in the fields of engineering and digital sciences are put at the service of the training of engineers and managers, partnership research, innovation and support for economic development. Constantly listening to the economic world, the IMT combines strong academic and scientific accreditation, proximity to companies and a strategic positioning on the major transformations of the 21st century: digital, industrial, energy, ecological and educational. IMT is a founding member of the Alliance Industrie du Futur, and creator with the TUM of the Franco-German Academy for the industry of the future, it is doubly labeled Carnot for the quality of its partnership research. IMT trains more than 13,000 students each year, carries out nearly 70 million research contracts and its incubators host around a hundred start-ups.