Test subject 15, CI Cloud Item, and Cityscaper, impressed at this year's Munich Innovation Awards. At the awards ceremony at Urban Colab, the winning teams were honored by Hans Raab, acting head of the IT department, and Heino Jahn, head of the Munich Municipal Cemeteries. Katrin Habenschaden, Munich's second mayor, presented the winners with the 2022 Innovation Award and said:
"More digital, more sustainable, more efficient, and more citizen-friendly: This is the course we are pursuing with full force. The Innovation Award is part of this strategy, because an outside perspective often helps solve a problem. As an administration, we benefit from the ideas of creative minds. The startups, in turn, can try out and develop their ideas in a real-world test field. Congratulations to the winning teams."
Economic Advisor Clemens Baumgärtner added:
"The Innovation Award has successfully established itself. Here, young teams find the right starting points to find and test solutions to the diverse challenges of urbanity in pilot projects, thus contributing concretely to shaping the future of their city."
Cityscaper impresses with “making climate change tangible”
With the challenge "Making Climate Change Tangible," the city sought innovative presentation methods to make the topic and consequences of climate change in the city understandable and comprehensible. The aim was to find an approach that would regularly raise awareness of the urgency of the issue among all citizens through appropriate visual feedback and motivate them to change their behavior in their daily lives. The solution should contribute to the City of Munich's goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2035. The startup successfully met this challenge. Cityscaper The jury was impressed by the idea of making climate change visually tangible for citizens using augmented reality. Hans Raab, acting head of the IT department, said:
"Innovative IT-based visualization technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality, in conjunction with climate change, which affects us all, can be used as excellent tools to make the consequences of climate change in Munich, which may not yet be noticeable everywhere, more visible and thus more tangible and understandable for its residents and the city administration."
Two winning teams in the “Development of a Cemetery App” challenge
Two participants were able to overcome the challenge of developing a cemetery app: CI Cloud Item and Subject15The jury justified the awarding of prizes to the two finalists with the different approaches to the solution: Both are very innovative, but do not compete with each other, but rather complement each other ideally.
While Proband15 relies on a visual solution that guides and informs the app user using augmented reality, CI Cloud Item is building a platform based on a digital twin that supports various cemetery processes. Beatrix Zurek said:
"Both startup teams have demonstrated that they have precisely grasped the problem and can develop a tailored solution. This is innovation times two – thought from different perspectives."
