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The companies nominated for the 360 Grader Prisen have been announced. The companies will compete in three different categories with three nominated companies in each:

Græsrod (Grassrots)

Solar4schools

We have a lot of plans for the new year here on challenges.dk. We will be focusing on circular solutions, data, health innovation and much more. In other words, it’s going to be a blast! Stay tuned…

Congratulations to Tony Do, who submitted the winning idea Ansættelsesberegneren for Startup Recruitment Challenge. The jury agreed that Tony's idea managed to consider all the relevant challenges related to hiring the first employee.

Three startups and three young talents have been selected to pitch their business ideas at the Impact Challenge final. The final is held at Google in Copenhagen, where the jury and the audience will find a winner in each category. Read more and sign up for the event here.

Earlier this week, the finalists in UrbanTech Challenge met at a final pitch-event. After seeing several great pitches, the jury announced three winners, each utilizing the business potentials in open public data in their own way: Planspace, Sp8ces and AirBnB for p-pladser. Congratulations!

A great pitch can be the difference between succes and failure. You can now get help getting your pitch just right, so EVERYONE understands your business idea and wants more.
When: Thursday December 6th at 13-16
Where: Google Succes Online, Nørrebrogade 34, 2200 Kbh N

The time has come where we can announce the finalists in UrbanTech Challenge. Eight finalists have been selected to pitch their ideas live at the final at BLOXHUB on the 3rd of December.
Congratulations to the finalists and a big "well done" to everyone that participated!

Do you want to experience, how open public data can be a part of datadriven businessmodels? Then sign up for the UrbanTech Challenge final!
When: Monday December 3rd 2018 at 15.00-17.00
Where: BLOXHUB, Bryghusgade 8, 1473 Copenhagen

Take part in turning the sustainable development goals into big business! Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Rasmus Jarlov, has just launched Impact Challenge – Business with Purpose, so now is your chance to pitch your idea in front of a jury and potential investors and win a prize of 15.000 DKK. If you are a startup or a student, all it takes is the right idea.

Now is your time, if you have a great idea that can help entrepreneurs get an overview of the costs of hiring the first employee - besides salary. We have just launched Startup Recruitment Challenge. Send us your idea before december 7th to participate.

Join us in discussing opportunities and challenges related to doing ’business with purpose’ at the opening of Global Entrepreneurship Week Denmark 2018.

When: Monday November 12th, at 13.10-16.30.

Where: Børsen, Slotsholmsgade, 1217 København K

Six finalists in Circular Construcion Challenge have just been announced live at the event Building Green. Now the challenge is moving into a new phase – establishing partnerships around the ideas.
Read more about how to join at circularconstructionchallenge.org.

The best ideas in UrbanTech Challenge gets the opportunity to pitch for an expert-jury consisting of representatives from the Danish Business Authority, COWI, Geoforum, the Danish Growth Fund and Copenhagen Solutions Lab. You can still sign up for workshops on November 1st and 2nd, where you can receive guidance in developing your idea or solution.

The best idea or solution that shows a great potential, and can evolve into an innovative business with the right support, will win a one year membership of BLOXHUB and a custom made program that will help the business reach its full potential.

Do you want to help build a zero-waste world? There’s still time to participate in Circular Construction Challenge, where we are calling for innovators that reuse, recycle and upcycle waste to new solutions for the built environment. The deadline is October 8th at 8:00.

Before long, we will kick-off yet another challenge. This time we will be looking for ideas and solutions within UrbanTech. Keep a look out here on challenges.dk, where we will be publishing the full challenge-brief.

The jury has announced BLUETOWN and Kaffe Bueno as winners of this year’s 360 Grader Prisen. The winners were awarded with the prize, 15.000,- DKK, and a membership with Green Network or a certification as Sustainable Business Partner. Congratulations!

Recycling of waste is a key driver of making the construction sector greener and more sustainable. Today, Realdania launches a challenge with a focus on just that – right here on challenges.dk. Simultaneously, Realdania enters into the strategic partnership behind challenges.dk.

When: September 6, 13.00-16.30

Join us is finding the two winners of 360 Grader Prisen, which each will be awarded with 15.000 kr. The event is in Danish.

We are very excited to welcome VIA University College as a new strategic partner on challenges.dk as of August 1st 2018.

Like the constant development of the community around challenges, our platform is also under constant development, and we will therefore continuously develop on the site.

This means that at times there will be features that do not work.