DHBW Engineering
DHBW Engineering Stuttgart e.V. is a student organisation dedicated to the construction of an electric racing car. Its aim is to develop innovative and lightweight vehicles with high performance.
Hands-on innovation
At prototype.club, we bring ideas to life by turning them into real prototypes. Our platform connects you with the best talent to make progress in your core business. Benefit from unique perspectives while presenting your ideas in a whole new style. Our platform gives you access to top talent and cutting-edge solutions to drive your ideas forward.
Why should you go ahead with your idea?
LET'S BRING VISION TO REALITY
Discover different solutions to implement your ideas
PUBLIC EVENT
Selected start-ups pitch their real prototypes correspondingly to your challenge. Lots of innovative ideas await you at one of the largest trade fairs in Germany with an international audience. Choose your challenge and find the perfect solution at one of our annual events:
IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
CUSTOMIZED
Your innovation competition, your rules!
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected start-ups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
VIRTUAL
Become the initiator of a virtual innovation competition!
Present your concepts and challenges at a virtual event and unleash the creative potential of the world’s best start-ups. As an initiator, you can design customized competitions, make valuable contacts and discover solutions that will drive your company forward. Opt for a virtual event and experience innovations without limits that are uniquely adjusted to your challenges.
YOUR IDEA
Your vision, our expert input!
Do you have a groundbreaking concept in mind, eager to transform it into a reality? Share your innovative idea with us, and we’ll provide our expert input to bring it to life. Leveraging our extensive network and experience, we excel in crafting unique competitions, fostering valuable connections, and discovering inventive solutions aligned with your visionary objectives.
As your strategic collaborator, we’re committed to helping you surmount challenges, transforming your event into a dynamic platform for success and meaningful breakthroughs.
LET'S BRING VISION TO REALITY
Discover different solutions to implement your ideas
PUBLIC EVENT
Selected start-ups pitch their real prototypes correspondingly to your challenge. Lots of innovative ideas await you at one of the largest trade fairs in Germany with an international audience. Choose your challenge and find the perfect solution at one of our annual events:
IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
CUSTOMIZED
Your innovation competition, your rules!
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected start-ups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
VIRTUAL
Become the initiator of a virtual innovation competition!
Present your concepts and challenges at a virtual event and unleash the creative potential of the world’s best start-ups. As an initiator, you can design customized competitions, make valuable contacts and discover solutions that will drive your company forward. Opt for a virtual event and experience innovations without limits that are uniquely adjusted to your challenges.
YOUR IDEA
Your idea, our expert input!
Do you have a ground-breaking event in mind, but need the right support to make it a reality? Share your event concept with us and we’ll offer you our expertise to turn it into reality. With our extensive network and experience, we can help you design tailor-made competitions, make valuable connections and find innovative solutions that meet your event objectives.
As a strategic partner, we ensure you overcome challenges and turn your event into a platform for success and meaningful collaborations.
THAT'S HOW IT WORKS
BENEFITS
Explore your possibilities by working with prototype.club
WHO ELSE IS ALREADY PART OF THE GALAXY
Unternehmenswerkstatt Hamburg
The Unternehmenswerkstatt Hamburg offers start-up support for founders by offering workshops, counselling, coaching and more. Together we support prospective founders.
powercloud
For their internal hackathon, prototype.club scouted numerous specific talents to boost powercloud’s recruiting.
SmartGrids BW
prototype.club partners with SmartGrids BW to advance intelligent energy systems for a more resilient infrastructure in the future.
KOINNO
KOINNO supports public institutions and companies with innovative procurement methods, such as innovation competitions by prototype.club.
AGCO
At Agritechnica 2023, AGCO introduced a tricky challenge around multi-route optimization for in-field farming. The results presented at the AGCO and Fendt booth during DLG.prototype.club convinced with complex algorithms.
DLR
At the IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, ANavS solved an almost impossible image recognition challenge of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
EnBW
Challenge partner EnBW posed a challenge regarding autonomous drone inspections for solar parks for E-world energy & water 2023.
TÜV NORD
At IAA.prototype.club 2023, TÜV NORD introduced a challenge focused on data synchronization between inspectors and garages including an incentive system. Explore the solutions the startups developed.
Siemens Energy
Challenge partner Siemens Energy posed a challenge regarding offline asset localization
at the Hannover Messe 2023. They were amazed by the variety of innovative ideas the participants presented.
Bosch
Bosch posed a hard- and software challenge at the IAA MOBILITY 2023 in regards to integrating radar and
ultrasonic sensors with delivery robots. The jury impressed how much the teams achieved in just two weeks.
CLAAS
CLAAS will set a challenge this year at Agritechnica – DLG.prototype.club.
Zentur.io
As software as a service provider, Zentur.io made first place in the E-world.prototype.club 2022.
InnovationLab
At the start of InnovationLab’s projects, prototype.club plays unforeseen challenges into its network so that solutions can be developed for them.
Deutsche Energie-Agentur
prototype.club and DENA have been working together with the Enerthon.com since 2020.
E-world
E-world as Europe’s largest energy and water trade fair hosts the E-world.prototype.club as a partner every year.
Verband der Automobilindustrie
Starting with mobilitython.com, VDA has been a cooperation partner since 2021.
5G Smart Venue
Deutsche Messe, partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, offers a highly innovative 5G multifunction campus on a site of 1.5 million m2.
5GAPS
5GAPS (5G Access to Public Spaces), partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, digitally captures the public space in the three spatial dimensions in (almost) arbitrary fineness.
Red Bull
Giving wings to people and ideas! Red Bull supports prototype.club since 2021.
Elia Group
The prototype.club supported one of the top 5 leading European transmission system operators with the organization of their hackathon in Berlin, home to their German subsidiary 50Hertz.
Fraunhofer IGD
As part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Fraunhofer IGD is developing software solutions in visual computing. They gave a challenge for DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral.
Die Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
With them being responsible for the German highway network of 13.000 km, they pave the way for innovative mobility solutions and sponsored one mobilitython challenge at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr
The Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport assumed patronage for the mobilitython at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft
With DLG as cooperation partner, the prototype.club organizes the DLG.prototype.club for EuroTier and Agritechnica.
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture took over the patronage for the DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral 2022.
TransnetBW
German transmission system operator TransnetBW took part in the Enerthon 2021 hosted by prototype.club. Their final conclusion on the developer sprint: a complete success!
CoVerified
CoVerified won the Enerthon challenge by TransnetBW and the E-world.prototype.club with a huge success following.
Max Brüggemann
Max Brüggemann won the powercloud speed hackathon 2022 and made second place in the Elia Group hackathon.
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