Tech for Sustainability Campaign & Hackathon 2023

Tech for Sustainability is a global initiative for students, researchers, startups, and innovative individuals to leverage technology to solve real-world sustainability challenges and shape our future alongside Siemens.
Leverage technology to shape a sustainable future
Siemens AG is a technology powerhouse that brings together the digital and real worlds to benefit customers and society and thus people around the globe. The company - having shaped each of the four industrial revolutions - focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and decentralized energy systems, on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, on water solutions, and on smart mobility solutions for rail transport, but also in financial services and software development.
As a global ideation campaign, Tech for Sustainability is designed to engage innovators outside of Siemens in order to come up with unique solutions for problems with a focus on sustainability. In a hackathon, the innovators who have been particularly successful in the early stages of the Campaign will have the opportunity to create a proof-of-concept and proof-of-feasibility for their ideas.

What’s in for you?
1. Work with us - Let’s solve real problems together to move towards sustainability.
2. Work on-site - The teams with the best ideas will develop their applications further during a hackathon. They will get to work on-site or remotely for the development of their proof-of-concepts.
3. Win Prizes - Three winning teams per challenge – 1st 5,000€, 2nd 3,000€ and 3rd 2,000€

How do you get to the next phase?
All ideas will be evaluated by Siemens experts based on the following criteria. So, keep them in mind:
a) Innovativeness: Incremental or disruptive innovation
b) Sustainability: DEGREE and impact on the UN Sustainability Development Goals
c) Feasibility: Degree of technical and/or economic feasibility
d) Potential: Fit to Siemens processes, products and markets
e) Implementation: General implementation efforts (Time to market, R&D costs, etc.).