The 2020-2021 Start'in ESS promotion

A nationwide initiative, eco-delegate students are chosen to act as ambassadors for eco-citizen initiatives in schools.

Alta is proposing to set up a web application for its middle school, high school and student representatives, based on a platform co-constructed with young users, to raise the profile of existing solutions and create a community of mutual aid and awareness.

• Constance Gouélo: Co-founder
• Tristan Bonneau-Rouis: Co-founder

Binko (formerly Mister Bin) offers an intelligent waste management and compression system for private households

• Romain Pellat: Co-founder
• Valentin Violleau: Co-founder

Binko is an intelligent waste management solution that improves the recycling process at home. This innovative & fun garbage can, based on the intelligence of connected objects, automatically recognizes, sorts, compresses and controls the filling level of waste.

The "Eko" kiosk is designed to improve hand hygiene while consuming fewer resources. Designed in a low-tech way, it proposes an automated cycle allowing a saving of more than 95% of water and 60% of soap thanks to a control of the consumption of resources.

• Valérian Challut: Co-founder
• Thibault Paczkowski: Co-founder

Ekowash is a French company that aims to improve hand hygiene while consuming fewer resources.

EKO is a kiosk offering a complete, automated, touch-free hand-washing cycle that drastically reduces water consumption.

It reduces the use of consumables, improves the overall user experience in washrooms and has a strong environmental impact on society.

Fruitech products are designed with respect for nature and are exotic organic products. Free from colorants and preservatives, Fruitech products are part of a fair trade approach in conjunction with Senegalese farmers' cooperatives.

Fruitech offers 100% natural syrups and jams based on Hibiscus (Bissap) and Ginger, Ditax (Detarium Senegalensis) as well as Cashew Nut and Nougat.

• Pape Ousmane Ndiaye: Founder

Garnish is helping players in the beverage sector to make the ecological transition.

• Marie Gay: Founder

Garnish is a company with a mission whose main objective is to unite the beverage industry around the challenges of sustainable development.
Garnish offers two services:

• assisting drinking establishments in reducing their environmental impact
• to create a community of professionals in the beverage industry committed to sustainable development issues

Handineo is a support platform for companies wishing to become handi-responsible. "Handineo is the dream of a fairer, more inclusive society. It's a mission to remove, one by one, the obstacles that prevent employment players from acting in favor of disability."

• Robin Sicsic: Founder
• Damien Caillaud, Séverine Hassler, Florian Autret, Clara Mine-Garros, Emmanuelle Giraud

This digital support program for companies is made up of a steering platform, an advisor and a community, designed to support those in charge of disability inclusion in the workplace (HR, CSR, managers) and provide them with resources and tools that enable them to easily understand disability management in the workplace, structure an inclusion approach and recruit more disabled profiles.

Keia offers a speech recognition technology service translated into sign language, thanks to a 3D avatar, to facilitate access to web data for the deaf.

When a human interpreter is unavailable or inaccessible, keia takes over, putting innovation at the service of a major need by integrating millions of deaf people, automatically translating videos, web pages, documents or even events simultaneously.

• Florian Méloux: Project manager
• David and Emmanuel Ohana

L'Osmose is a project for an eco-responsible cultural structure based on the original association of three fields of action: cultural education, Earth culture and digital culture. This formula is part of a global response to current and future educational, ecological and social issues in a building that is concerned with environmental issues. Each pole offers its own activities, resources and advice while developing cross-cutting projects. This place of life wants to be an open space, nourished by the initiatives of each one, which adapts to the present resources and the needs, at the service of a whole locality.

• Paul Lefur: Co-founder
• Océane Petit: Co-founder

Eugénie Epaud and Clémence Jung have designed a self-defense program and safety kits including a connected accessory to raise the alarm and reduce feelings of helplessness in the event of aggression in the public space.

It enables the victim to take action, bringing him or her out of a state of tetany during the attack and reducing feelings of helplessness. With a single click, you can send a message to friends and family, and save data for use in filing a complaint. StaySafe does not require a telephone, so it can be used in any context.

• Eugénie Epaud
• Clémence Jung

Sensée Paris is a lingerie brand for women who want to take care of their bodies and the environment, offering an alternative to the classic bra and no-bra.

The aim is to offer lingerie that lets the skin breathe, doesn't compress and allows the breast to move freely. Lingerie that doesn't contain harmful products, and that promotes good circulation of the body's lymphatic system and the breast. Products with zero-waste and local characteristics, promoting innovation and French and European know-how around linen and hemp.

Wallbreaker trains and employs incarcerated people in small appliance repair to help them reintegrate into society. Wallbreaker has a dual mission:

• to have a positive impact on the reintegration of persons placed under house arrest. The course they follow aims to give them tools to facilitate their reintegration upon release through training, work and socio-professional support.
• participate in the circular economy by repairing objects that are too often thrown away.

Yeasty aims to recover yeast from brewers to produce protein-enriched ingredients and foods. This will relieve the pressure on wastewater treatment plants, avoid treatment costs and lengthen the life cycle of this precious co-product, yeast. To achieve this, the yeast is debittered using a biological process currently being developed at Genopole. The yeast is then dried and packaged for shipment to customers.

• Nikola Stefanovic : Co-founder
• Mathieu Durand: Co-founder