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A team made up of 4 students of the KIC InnoEnergy´s MSc SELECT programme (Burkhard Hauck, Heny Kusumawardani, Davide Lora and Daniel Negrin), have won the best project award in Sustainable Energy of the “Emprèn UPC” contest, held on June 4th at the IT Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona.


The project is focused on the production of electricity out of the waste heat of car engines´ exhaust gases by using thermoacoustics technology, aiming at reducing CO2 emissions in the transportation sector.

The students developed the idea during the first academic year by working on both the technical feasibility and the business approach. As part of the “Technological Entrepreneurship: business plan development” course, coordinated by professor Frederic Horta, the students are encouraged to present their business ideas to local and international contests on innovation and entrepreneurship. This initiative aims at training students to convert ideas into business opportunities.


The contest “Emprèn UPC” is sponsored by KIC InnoEnergy.

 

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