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Tiles made from construction waste: SHARDS founding team receives EXIST start-up grant
Image: Shards.The idea behind the founding project: In Germany, over 60% of waste comes from building demolition, which was over 54 million tons of construction waste in 2018. The team uses such construction waste as a material and produces tiles from it. The team creates the wide variety of colors exclusively by fine-tuning the ingredients of the recycled materials. No colorants or binders are used.
To date, almost 50 projects at the University of Kassel have been supported by the EXIST funding program. The funding includes personnel, material and coaching resources. The teams are supported by UNIKAT, the start-up consultancy of the University of Kassel. The founders of SHARDS are also supported by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Hesselbach, head of the UPP Environmental Products and Processes department, as a mentor.
During the funding period, the SHARDS project team will use an office space on the start-up floor of the University of Kassel. The Hessen Ideas fellows "e.core", "Veload", "Dryn.it" and "Solocal Energy" and the former EXIST team "ZAZMO" also use incubator rooms in Gottschalkstrasse.
The university's start-up advisory service offers a telephone consultation hour for questions about the scholarship programs every Friday between 10-12 for interested students, graduates and employees. Counseling appointments are welcome outside of these hours.
Further information:
On the EXIST start-up scholarship: www.exist.de
On the start-up consulting services: www.uni-kassel.de/ukt/unikat/
Contact:
Gabriele Hennemuth
University of Kassel
Start-up consulting
Tel.: 0561 804 1859
E-mail: hennemuth[at]uni-kassel[dot]de