Dijon Open2Horizon Innovation Challenge on Biodiversity

Deadline: 25 October 2024

The Dijon Métropole is launching an open innovation programme to realise its ambitions in terms of safeguarding and developing biodiversity in the area.

As part of the European RESPONSE project, the partners are developing a sustainable and intelligent city demonstrator in Dijon (France) and Turku (Finland). This innovative approach has already transformed the Fontaine d’Ouche district into a positive-energy district.

Join the adventure by joining Open2Horizon: the RESPONSE project’s innovation challenge, which offers you the opportunity to work with Dijon Métropole’s teams to develop new services for cities in transition.

Through this open innovation programme, the Dijon area becomes a real ‘testing ground’ for techno solutions (start-ups and SMEs) that can then be deployed on a large scale.

Aims

The aim of this challenge is to build a tool for monitoring the biodiversity actions and indicators, in line with the Group’s climate strategy and in addition to the toolbox already being developed for other Climate Plan indicators.
- The tool developed as part of this challenge should make it possible to:
  - Make the best use of the raw data derived from existing and future biodiversity studies;
  - “Tell the story” of biodiversity in Dijon métropole’s territory for a variety of audiences: political decision-makers, private players involved in the Climate Plan, city servants and the general public;
  - Report on the evolution of biodiversity in the city and of the impact of actions to protect biodiversity on the basis of historical data provided by the Natural History Museum;
  - Support Dijon métropole in monitoring the biodiversity objectives of the Climate Plan, in order to help with reporting and taking actions.
- Participants of the Open Innovation Challenge also have to:
  - Develop indicators that summarise the raw data and are compatible with relevant regional and national indicators;
  - Define impact indicators on the effects of actions performed by local stakeholders to protect the area’s biodiversity;
  - Document the methodology used to calculate the above indicators.

Benefits

In accordance with the modalities defined in the Sub-Grant Agreement, the winner will be awarded 25 000€ to develop and test the solution.
The prize will be paid in three instalments:
- 10 000€ at the beginning of the prototyping phase
- 10 000€ at the beginning of the experimentation phase (a prototype will be provided: a video presentation or a slideshow presentation of the prototype to grant the payment)
- 5 000€ at the end of the experimentation phase (the demonstrator with its documentation will be provided as deliverable to grant the payment)

Who can join?