02.07.2025

Schools impress with digital sustainability ideas at competition final

Group photo of about 25 people including students, jury members, and university staff. They are standing together in the InnovationPort Wismar presentation space in front of a screen with the words "Für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit" (“Thank you for your attention”). — Participants of the five finalist teams of the 2025 student innovation competition in the fields of digitalisation and sustainability, joined by the jury and organisers at the InnovationPort Wismar. Source: Wismar UAS/MW

Three schools, five teams, and forward-thinking ideas: The student innovation final at Wismar’s InnovationPort focused on real-world digital sustainability.

On 27 June 2025, the final round of the student innovation competition on "Digitalisation and Sustainability" was held at the InnovationPort in Wismar. Organised by the Department of Business Informatics at Wismar Business School, the event was led by Prof. Dr. Marianne Schmolke and Prof. Dr. Jöran Pieper.

Five teams from three secondary schools in Wismar, Schwerin, and Lübeck took part. The winning team from Gymnasium Schwerin presented "Mycocapture", a concept for sustainable building materials. Second place went to Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium Wismar with "Ecoscan", a scanner tool to assess the sustainability of grocery items. Third place was awarded to the Lübeck team for their idea "Scan&Trash", a digital tool to support waste sorting via scanning.

The jury, made up of regional business representatives Felix Schütt (Clicksolutions), Hartmann Schleifer (Carugia), and Jonas Flint (DEJ Technologies), evaluated the pitches. The event provided a professional platform for young talents to present innovative, digital solutions to pressing challenges.