Call for Nominations: Green Gas & Future Solutions Award

Your fresh perspective and creativity are strengths to support them in this reflection. And don’t forget that a team composed of different profiles (engineers, architects, urban planners, etc.) is an asset to bring a cross-disciplinary perspective to the project.

Categories

• Green Gas:
  • Find the solution to promote renewable gas and encourage its consumption.
  • Renewable gas comes from the natural fermentation of organic waste, it combines many advantages: it helps reduce CO2 emissions compared to fossil fuels, it helps to recover waste, allows to create energy but also digestate (excellent fertilizer), it promotes the energy independence by encouraging the short and local circuit (less import of gas from other countries), it allows rural and agricultural development (creation of non-relocatable jobs, diversification of income have a strong societal impact), finally this renewable gas offers a varied use (heat, mobility-transport, process).
  • Methanization production sites are booming, with new sites opening every week!
  • What would be your ideas to make this energy better known to consumers? How to make them discover all its assets and the benefits it provides on all prisms (environmental, societal, energy, circular economy).
  • A single watchword: make customers want to consume green gas, think about its democratization.
• Future solutions:
  • Imagine the equipment of the future (heating/hot water), all gas vectors are possible.
  • Surprise them with an energy and system approach, have a multi-criteria approach: think about size, positioning, sizing, needs and also network interconnection!
  • Your solution will power a building (collective housing, apartment, individual house or even commercial building).
  • In this category they will take into account the flexibility of energy systems; which implies working on the regulation and hybridization of systems.

Challenge Stages

• Phase 1: Application Phase:
  • Form a team of 2-5 students, use your creative skills to produce:
    • The  top 10 teams will be selected to move on to the next step, the in-depth phase.
• Phase 2: Deepening Phase:
  • If your team has been selected, you will be paired with mentors from the organizing company with expertise in the relevant field. They will help improve the submitted proposal.
  • At the end of this stage, each team will submit a detailed 10-slide proposal in PDF/PPTX and/or video format. Use your skills and creativity to convince the experts and be selected for the final event!
  • The top 3 teams will be selected for the final event.
• Phase 3: Awards Ceremony:
  • The 3 winners will receive their awards at the building energy efficiency trade fair, EnerJ’meeting , which will take place on February 11, 2025 in Paris.
  • They will have the opportunity to present their project to professionals in the field.

Prize Information

• First place: Each member of the 1st team will win €500.
• Second place: Each member of the 2nd team will win €250.
• Third place: Each member of the 3rd team will win €100.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Challenge is only open to:
  • Student. A natural person aged eighteen (18) years and/or legally capable, currently a student enrolled in higher education or a recent graduate of higher education for less than 1 year in relation to the current school year and able to prove this with a student card. Only one participation in the Challenge will be allowed per person. In the event that the person is a minor, provide this parental authorization duly completed and signed.
• The competition is open to students from Bac+3 to Bac+5 level.
• All documents that can justify the Participant’s eligibility for the Challenge will be requested before the prizes are awarded (e.g. identity document, student card, etc.).
• This Challenge is not open to staff members of the Organizing Company and Agorize as well as members of their families .
• This Challenge is void where prohibited or restricted by applicable law or regulation.

Selection Criteria

• The Deliverables will be judged based on the selection criteria that is set out. The Participant acknowledges being informed and accepts that the proposed Challenge calls upon his/her creativity, sagacity, skill and ingenuity to solve complex problems. The Challenge does not depend in any way, even partially, on chance and luck and therefore cannot be analyzed or compared to a lottery. Under no circumstances are elements relating to the person, appearance, religion, union membership, political opinion or sexual orientation of the Participants taken into consideration.

Application Requirements 

• To participate in the Challenge, they must have received your complete registration before November 15.
• To participate in the Challenge, the Participant must have created a user account on the Challenge Site, and provided the required information truthfully and completely, such as their surname, first name, email address, etc.
• Participants who have not provided their full contact details and identities or who have provided them inaccurately or falsely will be disqualified, as will persons refusing the collection, recording and use of personal information concerning them and strictly necessary for the purposes of managing the Challenge. The information provided by the Participant as part of their registration for the Challenge is their responsibility and any error, anomaly, inconsistency, intentional or not, relating to the information communicated by the Participant is likely to result in their disqualification.
• The Organizing Company reserves the right to carry out all necessary checks concerning the identity, postal and/or electronic address of the Participants.
• The deletion of a Participant’s user account on the Challenge Site will be considered as an abandonment of the latter’s participation in the Challenge. In this case, the Participant, even if he is able to provide proof that this deletion is not his fault, will not be able to re-enter the Challenge, nor will he be able to obtain any compensation from the Organizing Company.
• Likewise, to participate in the Challenge, the Participant must have accepted these Rules as well as the General Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy of Agorize, when registering and creating the user account.
• Registration and participation in the Challenge is completely free, and there is no obligation to purchase.

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