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Help us expand our understanding and our vision for this technology identifying some concrete use cases (e.g. fraud management, auditing, smart contracts, support for new business models)

This challenge is about finding methods to measure effectiveness and efficiency of the different Anti-money laundering (AML) systems implemented within our company group. Typically, Anti-money laundering (AML) systems are analyzing financial transactions to detect suspicious cases, when the purpose is not a licit business, but rather fictional operations, aiming to legitimize funds as the result of those transactions.

Within the financial industry a lot of change is driven by new innovative players who are challenging existing business models of established financial services providers. In order to participate successfully in this change, the challenge is to screen the FinTech-market in the areas of the Corporate Lending Business and to identify potential collaboration partners and models

Develop an environment-friendly mattress which is easily recyclable, e.g. by considering different materials as well as their combination, their longevity and the possibility to re-use them

Electric vehicles (EVs) in their engineering simplicity allow us to embrace more innovative designs. Importantly they create a world of opportunities in new and sustainable approaches to sales. Most manufacturers are focusing EV product development opportunity on futuristic concepts of Homes on Wheels while not embracing other design possibilities that only EVs offer. These include modular design, re-electrifying classic vehicles or innovative approaches to purchase.

Pipette tips are cone shaped life science research consumables that are currently packaged in a grid pattern inside plastic boxes (racks). These racks are then boxed and shipped to laboratories around the world. The packaging of pipette tips is not environmentally friendly due to its high reliance on non-sustainable plastics and low packaging density. Although pipette tips do an immense amount of good in supporting life science research, these two issues cause the production of pipette tips to have a negative environmental impact. This challenge is to re-imagine pipette tip packaging and determine a more sustainable solution that meets customer requirements.

A SMART motor is a motor able to adapt automatically the working conditions of the windshield wiper depending on external factors.

A hospital is a place that we go to in order to heal, but what happens when you catch a hospital acquired infection? Infection Control is becoming more and more important for healthcare facilities – to protect their patients, employees, and their bottom line!

Today plasma fractionation is still growing mostly driven by the production of immunoglobulins which are used in a growing number of indications. Due to the high demand fractionation companies are looking for more efficient fractionation methods. To consistently adjust alcohol concentration, an on-line measurement to determine alcohol concentration in the protein suspension would be highly beneficial.

We are a year-round integrated service provider in the tourism and leisure industry in a destination of the Swiss Alps. This year a new subsidiary was founded, which facilitates the rental of holiday apartments. Due to its great success, we believe this business model has a high scaling potential and thus would like to collaborate with a group of motivated students who can help us create and implement a multiplication strategy.

We are looking into mid-term European expansion opportunities and are considering Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France, UK and Ireland as possible countries where we could expand in the next years. In addition we would like to validate if the current business model, is still the correct one to enter into these new markets, or whether B2C could be a better approach.

We created a solid modular powertrain, which would change the way people move in today’s urban landscape. Their modular Kits convert ANY skate or long board to electric while adapting to your needs, not the other way around. Designed in Barcelona, one of the top 10 smart cities in the world, the incredible lifestyle and community energy has given them the platform to make their vision a reality. The challenge for the student teams consists of a market research and launch strategy for the German-speaking markets

The challenge is to design an innovation process for our group's (HR-)IT that is easy to adopt for the organization and efficient as well as sustainable in its use.

We want to develop a Sustainability Strategy as part of our culture, integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria in our business, processes and people. Our sustainability is designed to support our purpose of becoming the wellbeing partner of our customers through responsible and impactful actions with our customers and employees. Providing risk transfer solutions that encourage risk prevention & incentivize customers to adapt sustainable behaviors and leveraging our accumulation expertise, we accompain and protect our clients along its life. We want to drive our activity ensuring a positive impact in society so. We want to identify best opportunities to develop a social innovation project.

Committed to innovation, we provide added value products and services to meet the essential needs of current and future generations. There is a dedicated approach with regards to the innovation and new business development, considering internal assets, know-how, market access as well as global mega trends and industry specific needs such as regulatory challenges/changes. In this challenge we would like to get an assessment whether our innovation strategy meets market needs, whether we should re-adjust. Also, the applied tools can be implemented as a toolbox in future innovation strategy assessments.

Predicting logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to our businesses but has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done. With an empowered consumer base now dictating supply and demand, accelerated time to market pressures, intense global competition and the continual rise of the Internet and mobile economies, we and our peers need to be able to make production decisions on the spot by leveraging the latest supply chain information at their fingertips. At the same time, technological advances such as the Internet of Things, automated transportation and similar futuristic innovations are offering tremendous opportunities to drive efficiencies and operational excellence.

Help us manage better warehouse occupancy levels! How? Create a simple tool to simulate the warehouse occupancy for the next 18 months according to the OPLAN and all ongoing projects related to pull in or out inventory.

With a specific need to optimise the transportation network to increase speedand reduce cost, Duvenbeck was looking to identify new approaches to an recurringly arising challenge with a clear impact on bottom line results and customer satisfaction. Additional considerations to lower carbon impact through better utilisation of available freight spaceas well as the optimisation of an integrated data flow between enterprise resource planning systems, went into the overall challenge description.

We are a global financial services provider of a major car manufacturer. When most people see shiny new cars on a garage forecourt they don’t know that the dealer doesn’t own the cars. financial services provider does. We would like to challenge you to conceptualize a prototype, which helps us to develop a stock checking system designed to replace manual inventory control.

We want to incorporate augmented reality masks for soccer into our platform. Masks will be both to support your team, as well to express emotions (after a goal, won game, won trophy, anger with the ref...)

Virtual and augmented reality technologies are promising to revolutionise the way we present and experience information, which will have profound implications for educational institutions. This challenge looks for the current state of these technologies and their educational applications today, as well as exploring the exciting future possibilities they will enable.

Workplaces are slowly changing. Due to digitization and other workplace trends, an increasing number of open space offices and clean desk policies are introduced. However, initial research shows that open office spaces have a negative impact on labor productivity and direct communication. Modern workplaces with open office spaces and clean-desk policies often deprive their workers of the possibility to engage emotionally with the work space and their colleagues. In addition, they fail to create the right conditions for workers to be productive: too noisy, not the right light and temperature, disturbances by co-workers, inappropriate devices, paperless desks - the conditions are often far from ideal to concentrate, but also for collaborative and creative work. We need to revamp existing concepts based on our own ideas, experiences as well as the research results provided.

Growing revenues and a positive business outlook drives the need and hiring for additional employees. In sight of changing work-models, a smart approach to offer employees office space and possibilities to flexibly use facilities or their home office was required. Somfy needed to build visibility on board level for the “Arbeitswelt 2025” (Future of work 2025) project and required analytical insights particularly regarding the social implications, technical feasibility and others, for employees working from home.

The challenge is to provide a solution for a conflict management for intercompany resolution and reconciliation. Approaches that have been looked at include generating automatic reminder for not reconciable intercompany conflicts and documentation of conflict management. In addition in the case of not clarified conflicts an escalation process should be automatically started. We are looking for a complete concept and viable approach to the topic and look to eager students to take on this highly sensible topic.

Analysis of the data and definition of a prototype model that predicts with enough confidence the likelihood of a customer to accept our quote for a given price. In our sector both we and our competitors are defining the prices based on negotiation with our customers. We believe that the digitalization is a must and will also come to our sector. Therefore we would like to be prepared or even to be the initiators of the on-line selling. For that reason we need to be able to define the best adjusted price for our customers (based on any BI algorithm) to increase the margins for the company, but also maintain our sales.

During the year, the number of users in our facilities can vary greatly from one day to the other. Since we need to be prepared for high demand, this results in high staffing levels. The current staffing model only allows limited flexibility and leads to high personnel costs and lower profit. We would like to collaborate with a group of highly motivated students, to develop a demand-driven staffing model.

We would like to take advantage of establishing a technical system solution to analyze big data, reduce manual workload and gain important new insights in steering related topics in our financial streams. A high degree of automatization and new machine learning technologies will be necessary. We made our first experiences with predictive analytics (payment prediction) and right now we are searching new use cases within finance end-to-end processes for predictive analytics to optimize our business information management.