Kilometer1 Awards

Participating in the Kilometer1 Awards is definitely worth it! The winning teams in all categories will receive 1.000 Euro to support them on their road towards a startup. For the second and third placed teams we will put together cool goodie bags.

All other teams nominated for the finals will also receive a great prize: they will be invited to participate in an exclusive workshop lasting several days, in which they will receive valuable support from selected experts for the further development of their ideas. In that way they will be optimally prepared for the final pitch event.

Participating in the Kilometer1 Awards is very easy! Simply fill out the application form on our homepage. The team applications must be handed in by the groups spokesperson, who is responsible to inform the rest of the team about the process and any updates.

In the application form, you will be asked to provide information on your team, the description of your idea and your business model. If you have difficulties with the application or have other questions, contact Jana from the Kilometer1 team any time.

Please consider the conditions of participation:

The ideas submitted for the “Students Founder Award” and the “Science Founder Award” will be evaluated by an independent jury based on the following criteria:

• degree of innovation
• feasibility
• clarity and comprehensibility of the business model
• competences and motivation of the team

The resulting ranking will decide who will be nominated for the final. At the final, each nominated team must pitch its idea to an expert jury. The jury will evaluate the degree of innovation and the feasibility of the idea as well as the team’s pitch.

The candidates for “Founder of the Year” are also selected by a jury of experts. In each case, one startup from HTWG and one from the University of Konstanz will receive an award. We will announce the selection criteria as soon as possible.

“Student Innovation” Award for “MoniSol”

The winning team consists of Julia Zimmermann, Timon Sutter (industrial engineering) and David Melzer (health-IT). With sensors in the sole of shoes they want to conduct an intellegent gait analyses, that recognizes wrong movements and postures that effect the whole body. Like this the cause for backache should be determined. On a platform the results should then be visualized and further material, trainings, and offers provided.

The other finalists were:

• “Schlemmerpost” from Samantha Sernatinger: She will help companies that do not have cantines to provide their employees with healthy meals. The ingredients will be produced in a ecological way and with as little packaging as possible.
• “Walk and Talk” von Elisa Frick, Alina Kurz und Anna Berglöf: They want to give students a convenient and uncomplicated opportunity to adress psychological problems that occur in the everyday lives of many students.
• “WhiteFox” von Felix Duffner, Jakob Bolenbach and Katja Seiter: A App should sensibilize children in the schools to the handling of data. This would support teachers in the topic media-education timely and contentwise.

“Science Innovation” Award for “Chemup”

The core team of “Chemup” consist of Dr. Manuel Häußler and Lukas Odenwald. Both of them were doctoral researchers in the field of chemistry at the university of Konstanz and their startup idea is based on their former research. With their startup Manuel and Lukas want to develop a more efficient way of recycling plastic. Because until now one component of plastic, that actually could be recycled, gets destroyed. A chemical process will make recyling a lot more sustainable. The team has developed a way in the laboratory, that seperates valuable chemicals in the plastic wastage, by using air and catalysts.

The other nominated teams were:

• “Active Annotator” from Felix Hamborg and Franzisa Weeber: They came up with an intelligent tool that allows users to only code a small part of the big amount of data manually. An AI program will learn to annotate the rest of the text automatically.
• “Media Bias Group” von Timo Spinde, David Krieger und Smilla Hinterreiter: The team developed a system that recognizes biases in texts and warns about the danger of making prejudices.

“Founder of the Year @HTWG Konstanz” for “BBQ-Butler”

BBQ-Butler developed a grill, with which public institutions, companies or municipalities can offer an easy working and convenient BBQ-station to their community. The BBQ-Butler is digitalized so that localizing it, checking the availability, as well as booking, paying and activating it works online over an app. After using the grill, it cleans itself and it is ready for the next group with in a few minutes. The team consists of Felix Warrisch, Andreas Nuber, Nina Kohler, Andreas Riener and Florian Stelzer. BBQ-Butler was espeshially honoured for its innovative technical implementation, the new idea for a communal activity and the holistic business modell.

“Founder of the Year @Universität Konstanz” for “thea”.

“thea” is an acronym for “technology helping education to advance”, which is precisely the mission of the startup: thea invented a tool for publishers of schoolbooks, so that they can digitalize their printmedia or supplement it with videos, text, augmented reality, etc. Furthermore the tool gives teachers access to the publishers’ content, so that they can adjust the content individually for the preperation of their lessons. The four founders are Tim Hagstotz, Marius Lindenmeier, Christian Schmidt and Felix Weiß. The jury espeshially emphazised thedepth of their innovation, the impact for society, and the current relevance of their product for the digitalization of education.

Follow-up report Awards 2021

Team Spark came up with a platform for projects.

Starthilfe worked on a mobile charging station for electric cars.

KonBag wants to implement a sustainable deposit system for the bakery bags in Konstanz.

Reise in den Westenwould be an App for travelling, directed to chinese tourists travelling on their own.

Courify focused on an app that mediates between courier services and their privat or business customers.

Follow-up report Idea Cup 2020

Morning Butler: Dynamic alarm clock app, which rings depending on the traffic situation and hence allows the user to sleep more.

thea: a digitally supported teaching concept, that presents the content of the lesson in a more visual and better way with the help of augmented reality.​

SWOT-you: A tool for automatic SWOT-Analyses. With the help of AI, online data will be analysed and evaluated.

Para Sight: It is an innovative sensor concept to supervise the quality of supply chains while considering various parameters.

Pablo Plastico: technology and concept for a local and thorough recycling process in coastal regions. Usable ressources, not trash!

Hippocampus: a sustainable fashion brand, that makes vinatage clothing to a convincing alternative.The startup wants to supply clothing with high quality and a modern and attractive brand.

Hochdynamischer digitaler Zwilling: A digital twin that integrates various sensors and data sources in order to set up a digital image of our world.

Triple Three made up by Michael und Samantha, is a sustainable concept for aforrestation, that would generate ecological, economical and social benefits in indonesia.

Episodic, consisting of Julian, Johannes, Max und Michelle, should provide a local peer-to-peer mediating platform, for people who want to teach and people who want to learn skills or knowledge.

Alnfluencer from Bene und Tim, is a mediating and managementplatform that would be useful for more direct and efficent influencer campaigns. With the help of AI companies and influencers will find to each other more easily.

Wave.log from Christopher, Katharina, Nico and Philipp will be a Plattform, on which the life story of boats should be brought onto the blockchain in order to increase transparancy and safety.

On our YouTube Channel you can find videos about the individual teams and you can even see what the teams experienced on their study trip to sillicon valley!

Follow-up report Idea Cup 2018