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Sponsh PRODUCING WATER FROM AIR WITHOUT ENERGY

Inspired by how plants and animals survive in dry, coastal

Vote for us!Sponsh is finalist in the European Investment Bank’s Social Innovation Tournament. Besides the 50k and 20k p...
08/10/2020

Vote for us!
Sponsh is finalist in the European Investment Bank’s Social Innovation Tournament. Besides the 50k and 20k prizes, there is also an audience prize of 10k.

Would be great if you can give us a little hand in regreening the planet and vote for Sponsh here: https://www.2020sit.com/votingpoll

Thanks loads!

selected as one of Europe’s 15 best social startups!
14/05/2020

selected as one of Europe’s 15 best social startups!

Congratulations to the 15 finalists of the Social Innovation Tournament 2020! 👏

This year’s Europe’s 15 best social entrepreneurs were selected from 216 applications from 30 countries. 🌍
Now the question is, who will be the winner in Lisbon? 🏆

Find out more about the 15 finalists and this year’s competition through the link 👉 https://bit.ly/SIT20LisbonFinalists

BeeOdiversity Breeze Technologies Corax - The Life Box Life Based Value Navilens PlasticFri Sponsh Tucuvi CloudCuddle Cokido Soil Steam International As

We are hiring!To speed-up our technology development, we are hiring a full-time Polymerisation and Hydrogel R&D Lead. Th...
21/02/2020

We are hiring!

To speed-up our technology development, we are hiring a full-time Polymerisation and Hydrogel R&D Lead. The job is based in Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Want to make true impact?
Apply here: https://sponsh.homerun.co/

Climate data (scientist)? We want to design a world-map which indicates where Sponsh would work and where not. To do tha...
30/10/2019

Climate data (scientist)?

We want to design a world-map which indicates where Sponsh would work and where not. To do that we need (to combine) data on precipitation, humidity, temperature and sunshine.

Do you know someone with knowledge of- or access to international weather data, maps and organisations? Or a data scientist, willing to help out? That would help us loads!

[Stem guard photo courtesy of Land Life Company]

This is really cool: ecosia.org. This search engine plants trees with the cash generated by your searches. It's super ea...
16/10/2019

This is really cool: ecosia.org. This search engine plants trees with the cash generated by your searches. It's super easy to install the plug-in on your browser (incl Chrome). That way, rather than financing Google with your searchers, you plant trees!

Ecosia is also B Corporation certified, meaning they are the real thing and truly sustainable.

Super cool tip from our latest hire Mila (Chief Researcher)



https://www.ecosia.org

Ecosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. By searching with Ecosia, you’re not only reforesting our planet, but you’re also empowering the communities around our planting projects to build a better future for themselves. Give it a try!

We made to the top-3 of the Rabobank Duurzame Innovatieprijs 2019! The winners announcement was during the super cool Sp...
30/09/2019

We made to the top-3 of the Rabobank Duurzame Innovatieprijs 2019! The winners announcement was during the super cool Springtij festival on the island of Terschelling. Unfortunately we didn't become number one this time. But nevertheless very proud of making it to the top-3.

https://www.duurzaambedrijfsleven.nl/circulaire-economie/32451/finalisten-rabo-duurzame-innovatieprijs

Bij het springtij evenement op Terschelling zal vandaag de prijswinnaar van de Rabo Duurzame Innovatieprijs 2019 bekendgemaakt worden. De finalisten werden eerder deze maand al bekendgemaakt.

Planting trees: the most cost-effective way to reduce global warming. "Adding nearly 1 billion hectares of forest could ...
26/08/2019

Planting trees: the most cost-effective way to reduce global warming.

"Adding nearly 1 billion hectares of forest could remove two-thirds of the roughly 300 gigatons of carbon humans have added to the atmosphere since the 1800s. 1 bln would be enough without any other measures."

We hope we'll be able to add-in a little in that approach!

Trees could remove two-thirds of human-caused emissions

For the Dutchies: Leuk artikel gisteren in Hart voor de Zaak van de Telegraaf :)
22/08/2019

For the Dutchies:
Leuk artikel gisteren in Hart voor de Zaak van de Telegraaf :)

Made it to the Green Challenge Award 25, from the 1100+ applicants! PS Mohammed bin Rashid outcome still pending🤞🤞🤞https...
27/06/2019

Made it to the Green Challenge Award 25, from the 1100+ applicants!

PS Mohammed bin Rashid outcome still pending🤞🤞🤞

https://www.facebook.com/132419040163214/posts/2950851148319975/

The Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge is one of the largest annual international competitions in the field of sustainability innovation.

Help Sponsh win BNR's Green Quest award!Vote for us via the website below (30 seconds) :)
25/06/2019

Help Sponsh win BNR's Green Quest award!
Vote for us via the website below (30 seconds) :)

And there we go! Up for the 250k 🤙
16/04/2019

And there we go! Up for the 250k 🤙

So here we are: Abu Dhabi!Invited by the Mohammed bin Rashid foundation as one of the 4 finalists for their Rural Transf...
15/04/2019

So here we are: Abu Dhabi!

Invited by the Mohammed bin Rashid foundation as one of the 4 finalists for their Rural Transformation and Zero-Hunger challenge. The 1st prize is 250,000$...

Tomorrow the big day, super excited. Best wishes most welcome!



PS the hotel is really really nice 🙂

Initiative for Global Prosperity unites the world’s leading manufacturers, start-ups and entrepreneurs, governments, UN agencies and philanthropists, academia and researchers, to form a community dedicated to spreading global prosperity through the art of ‘making’.

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Sponsh: solving water scarcity by looking at nature

Water is life’s first necessity. Droughts are increasing world wide: California has been struggling for years. Southern Europe had its driest summer ever in 2017. In South Africa, water is now the major concern.

Nature has learned how to survive in dry, coastal regions for millions of years. How? By retrieving water from air. Although invisible to us, air contains large volumes of water. Animals and plants in desert regions rely on water from humid air to survive.

So we thought: why don’t we do that? Together with University of Technology Eindhoven, Sponsh has developed technology based on this phenomenon. We make smart textiles and applications that extract water from air. During, the night, when it is cold, our material absorbs large quantities of water from air. During the day, when temperatures rise, the fibers squeeze themselves and the material releases nearly all this water. The water can be used for irrigation and drinking water. No energy needed. Fully off-grid. Affordable.

We were founded on January 26th, 2018. Our mision is to solve water scarcity by providing affordable water for everyone. Thus revitalising communities and areas struck by drought.