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TalTech Sustainable Futures

TalTech Sustainable Futures: Pitching Day 2025

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

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Teams from the spring semester's problem and project-based learning courses that joined the EuroTeQ Collider, and teams from the IGNITER program will participate in the event. This means that 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 will be presented.

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

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  • 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).

Terms

  • 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

Find more information about workshops which help to prepare for the event from EuroTeQ Collider website

EuroTeQaThon

There will be monetary prices for three best Collider projects and all three teams have 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. 

This year's EuroTeQaThon will take place in Eindhoven University of Technology in Netherlands on 14th to 16th June. 

The most "ready-to-market" team will get 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!