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TalTech Sustainable Futures: Pitching Day took place on 21st of May in the Assembly Hall of TalTech.

Teams from the spring semester's problem and project-based learning courses that joined the EuroTeQ Collider, and teams from the IGNITER program participated in the event. At the newly renamed TalTech Sustainable Futures: Pitching Day event, both business ideas aspiring to become startups and projects and solutions promoting sustainability created within the courses were presented.

There were 13 Collider course teams and 8 IGNITER programme teams represented.

Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures

For the academic year 2024/25, the central theme was "ENHANCE CONNECTIONS for Sustainable Futures“ where the pillars of sustainabilty are:

• People – It stands for social sustainability. The aim is to enhance social equity, inclusion, health, education, and cohesion to create societies that respect human rights and needs (e.g. strengthening and empowering interpersonal communities, connecting people's needs and desires with the help of technology (including e.g. digital solutions) in different areas such as well-being, health, culture, etc.).
• Nature – It stands for environmental sustainability. The focus is on protecting ecosystems, conserving resources, and minimizing human impact to ensure long-term environmental health (e.g. conscious connections with nature, considering our environmental resources and the connection of living organisms with the environment: interactions in the ecosystem, ensuring biodiversity and nature conservation, using renewable energy, etc.).
• Economy – It stands for governance/economic sustainability. The aim involves efficient and fair resource management to promote stable economic growth without compromising environmental and social sustainability, job creation and responsible consumption.
  The teams should address as much as possible all three pillars of sustainability (People, Nature, Economy).

Read more about the event and the winning teams

See the photos of the event

Conditions for participating in TalTech Sustainable Futures event

• Team size of 3-6 students
• TwoPager introducing the team's project
• Evaluation criteria (not mandatory, but helps the team to understand the possible result and jury takes into account) 
• Pitch 3 minutes

Deadlines

16.05 TwoPager submission deadline. Please submit your Twopager here.
20.05 by 12.00pm deadline for submitting presentations. Please submit your presentation here.

EuroTeQaThon

There were monetary prices for three best Collider projects and all three teams got a chance to represent TalTech in EuroTeQaThon -  international event bringing together EuroTeQ member universities' student teams and offering the opportunity to pitch your idea, participate in workshops, develop your pitch, network with like-minded changemakers, and gain international visibility.

2025 EuroTeQaThon took place in Eindhoven University of Technology in Netherlands on 14th to 16th June.

Foldy team got the chance to participate in Ignite Bootcamp by IESE Business School taking place on 28th to 31st of July. Ignite Bootcamp - From idea to market: for technology-driven sustainability challenges!

At the event, student teams of various courses who have joined EuroTeQ Collider will present their projects.

The main theme is "Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures" in which the sub-themes are: people, nature, technology. Each student team defines and selects, based on the content and result of their project/challenge, one category with which they are most associated. For this the category descriptions may help:

• People: e.g. strengthening and empowering communities, connecting people's needs and desires with the help of technology (including e.g. digital solutions) in various fields such as well-being, health, culture, etc. 
• Nature: e.g. mindful connections with nature, considering our environmental resources and the connection of living organisms with the environment: interactions in the ecosystem, ensuring biodiversity and nature conservation, using renewable energy, etc.
• Technology: e.g. effective connections through technology both digitally and physically in different areas such as information technology, logistics, transport, manufacturing, communication, etc.​​​​​

In every category, the best project will be chosen by the jury, and the team has an opportunity to represent TalTech in the international event EuroTeQaThon, which takes place from the 8th to the 10th of June in EuroTeQ partner university École Polytechnique in Paris.

Terms

• Team size of 3-6 students
• TwoPager introducing the team's project
• Evaluation criteria (not mandatory, but rather a helpful and context-creating aid)
• Pitch 3-5 minutes

Deadlines

6.05 registration for TalTech Sustainable Futures competition
6.05 registration for pitch practice
13.05 TwoPager submission, add here in the Dropbox
16.05 (by 17.00 pm) presentations submission, add here in the Dropbox

Pitch practice seminar

• 10th of May, Friday 10.00-12.30, SOC-213, registration until 6.05
• Mayri Tiido, founder of Materialivoog.ee and pitch trainer
• An overview of the nature and main components of a presentation speech (pitch) will be given. A pitch presentation is practised to get valuable feedback from the seminar leader and other students.

Information will be added soon.