xplore 2023 Technology Award for a sustainable world

We are pleased to announce the 25 finalists that have been announced as part of the "xplore 2023 nominations". The 11-member jury of representatives from science, industry and associations settled on teams from 14 countries, including Argentina, Chile, China, France, Germany, India, Latvia, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and USA.

After one year of continuous realization of their projects, the xplore teams were asked to submit a meaningful video in which they present their realized project as briefly and crisply  precisely as possible. The videos were the basis for the jury's final selection of the 25 nominees. The finalists were announced by the jury representative of the respective category.

The categories were also adjusted once again for organizational reasons. The teams are now competing in the 5 sectors: Smart Technology, Education, Environment, Smart Energy and Social & Health.

We are now looking forward to the "xplore 2023 Award Ceremony" on 18.10.2023 with the live presentations of the projects in Bad Pyrmont. And of course we are curious to see which team will come out on top in its category.

Take a look at the summary of the exciting "xplore 2023 nominations" in the video slider.

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The xplore Technology Award 2022 is entering its next phase and in this year's xvention we would like to announce the 100 teams that will be sponsored by Phoenix Contact.

We received numerous applications from 30 countries from over 100 institutions and companies from all over the world. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all applicants. Without their contributions, it would not be possible to organize such an exciting competition that not only promotes education and technology, but also brings together young people from all over the world.

In addition to the presentation of all submitted projects and the announcement of the best 100 teams, you can look forward to exciting contributions from the patrons and from the judges.

We look forward to your participation.

Sustainable projects for a sustainable world

The xplore2023 goes into the next round: with 100 teams from 30 countries. The projects of the technology award for a sustainable world have thus been selected.

The eleven-member jury from science, industry and associations now announced their decision during the global online conference xvention in September 2022. More than 170 groups had applied - and with great research and development projects in seven sectors: Social & Health, Smart Mobility, Environment, Smart Energy, Smart Industry, Digital Technologies and Education.

For more than 20 years, our xplore has connected young, tech-savvy people around the world. The teams are mainly recruited from the environment of universities, start-ups and vocational schools. Strongly represented this time were projects from Argentina, Chile, China, Spain and Germany.

The groups now have one year to realize their sustainable ideas with our support.

The best projects will be selected in October 2023. Then it will also be 100 years of Phoenix Contact.

A recap of the exciting launch event can be found in the video slider.

The academic institution becomes the European university with the largest number of projects participating in this international competition.

Gijón/Xixón, 3 October 2022. Four projects linked to innovation and sustainability in the fields of technological digitalisation, electric mobility, energy management and the internet of things (IoT) have been selected for the next edition of the Xplore Technology Awards 2023 programme of the German multinational Phoenix Contact. These projects have been presented by different multidisciplinary teams from the University of Oviedo. The Asturian academic institution thus becomes the European university with the largest number of projects participating in this international competition.

The four selected projects were presented this morning at an event held at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of the Gijón Campus, which was attended by Begoña Cueto, Vice-Rector for Transfer and Business Relations; Juan Carlos Campo, Director of the EPI; and Adriano Mones, ambassador of the Xplore Technology Awards 2023 programme of Phoenix Contact Tech Education.

The Project Engineering and Sustainable Engineering Group, made up mainly of professors and researchers from the Engineering Projects Area, has been chosen to develop a project linked to the generation of clean energies in the field of digitalisation. The Wolfast Uniovi Racing Team has been selected to design a modular battery in the electric mobility category. The Gijón Smart Cities Chair team will develop an advanced energy asset management system in the digital technologies section. And finally, in the smart factory category, the Systems and Automation Engineering Area will create an automated machine to produce textile material and to recreate art works.

In addition, two other projects submitted from Asturias have been selected on this occasion. One of them is called Tech Education Metaverse by the startup PXR, linked to the University of Oviedo, which has been selected in the education category to develop a project which scope consists of creating a scalable training metaverse using virtual reality. Finally, the e-com project, presented by CODEMA High School of Gijón and which scope is the design of a smart container for waste recycling, has also been chosen in the education category.

This German multinational has been organising this international technology and education competition for 20 years, both for secondary school and vocational training students, as well as for university students, teachers, and entrepreneurs in the field of technological innovation and sustainability. In this edition, the 20 best projects from all over the world will be invited to Germany to participate in the grand finale, which will take place in 2023, coinciding with Phoenix Contact's 100th anniversary.