"We, the Deutsche Bahn (DB) AG, Europe’s leading mobility company, would like to invite you to actively design and shape the future of railway. To this end, we initiated the DB Innovation Challenge, Deutsche Bahn’s open-innovation competition for major companies, small and medium enterprises, start-ups, and R&D institutions. Do you and your organization have an innovative solution that can potentially revolutionize the world of rail? Then join us, be part of our Innovation Challenge, and get unique insights into Deutsche Bahn. We are looking for innovative ideas and products addressing one of the following six DB innovation topics: - Improving train surface coatings and cleaning processes - Non-destructive testing of fibre compound components - Managing and customising work shifts for train crew via smartphone app - Reducing maintenance and inspection workloads at stations - ECO tuning for diesel locomotives (shunting and main-line) - Using laser point clouds to create 3D infrastructure models You have the chance to present your ideas, concepts, and products for DB‘s six innovation topics. You can submit your contributions via MovingIDEAS, the innovation platform of DB. After a first screening process, selected participants enter the development phase in which they draft detailed proposals including business cases and prototypes. The winners will be chosen and presented to the public at the InnoTrans 2016, the international trade fair for transport technology, in September 2016. The participants of the DB Innovation Challenge can expect a financial contribution of up to EUR 20,000 for each selected idea throughout the course of the development phase, as well as a prize money of EUR 50,000 for each winner in the competition‘s three categories (major companies & SMEs, small businesses & start-ups, R&D institutes). During the competition, participants are not only in close contact with the relevant departments of the DB Group but they are also offered the opportunity to interact and collaborate with other industrial companies, R&D institutes, and start-ups from the logistics and mobility sector, thereby having the opportunity to share knowledge and extend their network. For further information and detailed descriptions of the innovation topics, please refer to our brochure or visit us online on www.Moving-IDEAS.net. Join us in shaping the rail system of tomorrow!" Details of the challenge: http://www.adlittle.com/fileadmin/editorial/newsletter/2015_DB_Innovation_Challenge/DB_InnovationChallenge_en.pdf

Practical Challenge: It is intended, through a GIS (geographic information solution), to explore the existing ERP (Enterprise resource planning) potential on the support of technical activities and to increase the company's global management system efficiency. The solution to be developed will work as a support tool to a faster decision-making, whose added value will be based on the functional areas information integration. Award € 5.000,00 Deadline 2015-07-29 More details contact: space@ipn.pt

AWARD: $10,000 USD DEADLINE: 23/04/2015 "The Seeker for this Challenge is looking for new manufacturing processes inside and outside the food industry that can be used to create entirely new and differentiated categories of foods and snacks. The new process(es) should allow for the modulation of properties – such as texture, density, appearance, or shape – that enable the creation of new foods and snacks. Due to the nature of the challenge, the Seeker welcomes ideas from a variety of disciplines and industries, e.g. food & beverage industry, paint & ink industry, bulk and fine chemicals industry, pharmaceutical industry, cosmetics industry, aerospace or electronics industries. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution." For more information: https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933665

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A highly specialised supplier to racing car manufacturers, requires: • A radio module capable of operating in temperatures above 125°C and transmitting over a high bandwidth (4-5 data channels at more than 1000Hz) in a open frequency band. Size about 20x20mm, energy consumption as low as possible. • As an alternative: a rechargeable battery (operating in temperatures above 125°C) which constantly delivers 100mA at 3,6V. Capacity should be 500-800mA. Size: +/-15 mm diameter, 40-50mm long (Size is somewhat flexible).

VERHAERT Masters in Innovation – as the Belgian broker in ESA’s Technology Transfer Network (TTN) - has opened the applications for an Open Call. This call accepts “proposals for demonstrators regarding the transfer of space technology to a non-space application”. Whether it is hardware, software, know-how, procedures, processes, methodologies, systems and services, this Open Call for space technology transfer will allow participants to get funding up to 34.120 €, to develop a technology transfer demonstrators. Both space, non-space organizations or individuals are invited to apply. In the end, the three best proposals will be selected and awarded with funding. Applications are open until the September 26th, 2014. To submit an application, please download the application template here (http://www.spacetechnology.be/open-call/#sthash.Dir0FA3h.dpbs) and send it by email to sam.waes@verhaert.com.

The invention is based in a phased array system calibration method for space applications, involves updating estimates of invertible functions and individual complex values by removing modified. It relates to a remote calibration scheme for an active phased array system, more particularly for an active phased array antenna used in transmission and reception, and even more particularly for a satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) antenna. Since 2005, the European Space Agency is the mayor assignee. The application of the technology involves cost savings in initial hardware development, antenna AIV (assembly, integration and verification) and normal SAR calibration operations. Other applications of the technology could be the following: - radio navigation and radar - finding radio signal direction - microwave radiators for near-field therapeutic - transmission of digital information and wave transmission - multiplex and telephonic communication (circuits for controlling/telephone switching apparatus). For more information, please contact ptti@ipn.pt.

Open Sandwich Structure (OSS) is a crossover technology for applications in primary and secondary structures, offering a unique design allowance regarding bi-directional properties, non-flat geometries and integrated functionality. Current application projects are aircraft fuselage structures, rail and naval flooring panel and structural integrated thermal protection systems. The technology was developed by a SME based in Portugal and Germany. Seeks for industrial partners to advance current applications and develop new applications in space and aeronautics domain. For more information, please contact: ptti@ipn.pt

IFAS was developed by a Portuguese research group (CA3) within UNINOVA Research Institute. It is a software implementation of a monitoring and early warning system that can be applied to multiple domains involving multiple sensor data. It is a highly flexible mechanism that can be easily adapted to particular problem and has the capability of dealing with imprecision, allowing the system to issue levels of warnings before an error actually occurs. It extracts data from sensors, and semi-automatically transforms and represents it as linguistic variables - with a flexible reasoning process that can detect different levels of deviations (errors) from nominal behaviours. For more information, please visit: http://www.esa-tec.eu/technologies/from-space/ifas-intelligent-fault-alarm-system/