Start Cup Bergamo 2019 | The best business ideas awarded.
“U-Miles,” an intelligent speed bump that creates clean energy, wins. Fondazione Pesenti Special Prize awarded to MedHic, a platform for socio-healthcare companies.
October 15, 2019 – Once again this year, Fondazione Cav. Lav. Carlo Pesenti is a partner of Start Cup Bergamo, the entrepreneurial training and support initiative of the University of Bergamo, which concluded yesterday by awarding the three best projects among the 13 finalists.
Fondazione Pesenti Special Prize
Fondazione Pesenti specifically offered a special contribution for the “Project with the highest social impact”: €2,500 to MedHic by Matteo Albergoni, a web platform serving Italian socio-healthcare companies that enables the exchange between hospital pharmacies of medicines near expiry or urgently needed.
The winners
First place went to the project U-Miles, which won the first prize (€10,000). It is an intelligent speed bump that converts the passage of cars into electrical energy. The team of Luca Simonetti, Simone Sala, and Valerio Paris, led by Andrea Colombi, won the jury’s favor; finalists in the 2018 edition of Start Cup, this year the team — four students from Bergamo aged between 20 and 25 — brought home the victory.
Second place, with a prize of €5,000, went to APParecchio, a project coming from the first edition of HC.Lab, Health Contamination Lab, a training path for innovation in the health sector. APParecchio is a dedicated app and website to manage meal consumption in school canteens, avoiding food waste during production.
Third place, with €2,500, went to 4eye, an innovative portal supporting disabled people, their families, and those who need specific and quality-assured services, to be able to book vacations or organize leisure time in facilities with accessibility and dedicated services.
Finally, a surprise award: the plaque for the “Youngest Entrepreneurial Group” was given to the team of 3D Saving, composed of Andrea Parati, Simone Amidone, and Stefano Chiesa (fifth-year students at the Marconi Institute of Dalmine) and Giulia Gambarini (team leader and first-year university student).
Project profile of the Fondazione Pesenti special prize winner
MedHic is an exchange platform serving a broad network of hospital companies that collaborate to manage medicines near expiry or urgently needed.
A fundamental component offered by MedHic is an integrated tool that, connected to hospital IT systems, allows automatic uploading of medicines nearing expiry and makes them available to the community.
MedHic addresses the concrete needs of hundreds of hospital pharmacists. The computerized exchange of medicines between healthcare companies allows at the same time:
• Management of emergencies: the platform connects hospital hubs in real time, automatically selecting the closest ones.
• Reduction of waste: the main advantage lies in extending the drug’s lifecycle. The exchange of a medicine close to expiry on one hand eliminates the risk of obsolescence and thus cancellation of residual value, and on the other ensures the hospital receives a new medicine with a much longer expiry date.
• Reduction of disposal costs as well as respect for the environment.
The team
Albergoni Matteo
Graduating in Management Engineering, works in administration at a printing company.
Folcini Giovanna
Graduating in Educational Sciences, teaches physical education and support at the Racchetti-Da Vinci High School in Crema.
Chioda Luca
Graduating in Management Engineering, is an engineer responsible for quality and continuous improvement.
Nidasio Alberto
Student in Computer Engineering, has participated in numerous projects as a programmer.
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