Our winners of the 2025 ideas competition
10.11.2025
Aline Kinzie
Event
Smart school assignments, instant analysis of potential solar areas and a measuring device that costs only a fraction of its current price. Once again, this year's ideas competition attracted numerous innovative entries. Our jury was spoilt for choice and had to decide on the best ideas. The award ceremony took place on November 6th at the Smart Production Park.
We congratulate the winners of the 2025 Ideas Competition. The top five entries also received cash prizes.
Here are the Top 10 rankings:
Platz 1: Marko Nedilko – Canis.lab: Green AI For Everyone
Platz 2: Alexander Benzler – SolarNOW
Platz 3: Nojus Barth – Stocki
Platz 4: Juliane Reisewitz – Making Lead Detection Cheaper
Platz 5: Hagen Dupp – LearnUp
Platz 6: Robin Budig – Flexigator
Platz 7: Vincent Schilling – ORCA: The Orchestrator
Platz 8: Louisa Riemer – BareScan
Platz 9: Thorben Leitte – KartenProjekt
Platz 10: Franca Klank – Surprise Fashionboxen aus Deadstock
The evening was a complete success. Hosted by Aline Kinzie, the rankings were announced one by one and the videos of the best ideas were shown again. A big Thank You to our KIT startups RESTUBE, Xantus and heatIt for providing us with prizes for the competition. If you missed the event, you can find the videos of our Top 10 below in this blog post. After our award ceremony, the kick-off of GROW by Pioniergarage also took place. We are already looking forward to next year!
Our Top 10
Here you can watch the videos and innovative ideas from our top 10.
