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Product Design: Help reduce waste from coffee-to-go paper cups and come up with sustainable solutions!

€20,000 Overall Community Prize
€2,0001st- 5th place 

to be defined Sold Idea
10000 Special Prize

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Start date
01-Apr-2010, 11:59
UTC+0200
Submission deadline
01-Jun-2010, 11:59
UTC+0200
Rating deadline
15-Jun-2010, 23:00
UTC+0200
 
 
 
 
Announced
Submission Period (61 Days)
Rating Only (14 Days)

Briefing

Help reduce waste from coffee-to-go paper cups and come up with sustainable solutions!

Background Info

The betacup challenge was founded in May 2009 by Toby Daniels and Colaboratorie Mutopo in an effort to reduce the 58 billion paper coffee cups go to waste each year. (More details on the thebetacup.com). Th project began when Toby brought up some ideas he had for a more convenient reusable cup. As the team discussed the issue, they realized betacup might be an ideal project for a larger creative community because there seemed to be many ways to address the issue.betacup teamed up with sponsors Starbucks, Core77, Denuo and Good Day Monsters to seek your help because they believe this is an issue that impacts so many people and that many of us may have already thought about as we go about our coffee drinking each day. Special FeaturesIn this contest, the betacup invites you to submit ideas,  but also to comment and rate others’ ideas, and engage in discussions with other community members and contest jurors. The jury is made up of the betacup's board of advisors and will offer professional feedback and guidance throughout the contest. (in need of explanation, link to blog)There are two prizes: A prize awarded by the jury after the contest closes, and community awarded prize money for the top 5 ideas as rated by the community. The betacup is a Public Contest (in need of explanation, link to blog - I still dont understand this properly, so yeah, some explanation would be good), which means as you submit your ideas, they will be visible to non-community members and people can Sign Up to comments and ratings. This feedback process will help make ideas even better, so you are encouraged to submit ideas early to benefit from the feedback and improve your ideas.Don’t have an idea? No problem, you can still help out by offering feedback to others.

Task Definition

Rethink the way we consume coffee and present solutions that strive to reduce paper cup waste. 

We are not looking for just another reusable cup design. 

Think beyond just the vessel for carrying coffee, and develop a way to cause behavior change at a massive scale. 

A successful approach should consider the following:

  • Waste Reduction – how does the Idea reduce the number of non-recycled coffee cups thrown away each year?
  • Resources Required – what resources will it take to implement the Idea? (money, energy, water, materials, time, etc)
  • New or Existing Capabilities – does the Idea use existing technologies or approaches? If not, what must be created or invented to implement the Idea?
  • The Whole experience – Don’t forget the importance of the “whole experience”. Alternatives to paper cups are available today but they are not being widely used. How effective is the Idea likely to be in achieving its goal?

Submissions can be made in the form of image, audio or video files. This open submission process encourages you to submit ideas from sketch form all the way to rendered prototypes and communication campaigns.

Researches, ideas, inspiration and much more useful stuff can be found on the betacup homepage and here. 

Target Group

  • People aged 18 to 50
  • Consume multiple cups of coffee per day, away from home
  • Convenience driven
  • Living consciously
  • Living in the city & in the suburbs

Tonality

  • Relevant
  • Fun
  • Convenient
  • Useful
  • Engaging
  • Behavior changing
  • Inclusive

Mandatory Requirements

There are no mandatory requirements in terms of visualization or format of your submission, but keep in mind that a clear, appealing presentation and precise written description of your idea helps the community and jurors understand and rate it appropriately.

Entries will be judged on a variety of qualities, including how they reduce waste, what resources they require, new or existing capabilities required for implementation, and the overall user experience.
 
 

Comments

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  • cuptokeep
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    over 1 year ago

    cuptokeep

    @Janne Good, to hear we are not sitting here alone wondering about this. We are just really surprised. It is really not fair to suddenly change the rules of the game. It jeopardizes the trust of the competition!!!
  • squalidsketch
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    over 1 year ago

    squalidsketch

    We think the same, and we were wondering also! Not really cool.
  • donner_mayer
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    over 1 year ago

    donner_mayer

    I note that there are a lot of people in the last few hours who do not love just one single idea, but bash still quite a lot. I realy hope that this votings can be eliminated in the final score! For me the rating concept of open contests don't realy works well :(
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    • bunterberg
      jury
      over 1 year ago

      bunterberg 

      @Donna - as in each contest we're reviewing the ratings in detail. Mass-Bashing is surely not being tolerated.
    • Frieda
      over 1 year ago

      Frieda 

      we'll use the next 48h to check all ratings again. The rating status of community members with strategic or manipulative rating behaviour will be put on false, hence their ratings won't count anymore. We will then re-activate the tallying of the votes and present the final result. All votes cast by "bashers" will then NOT count anymore.

      Have some trust!
  • Haaz
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    over 1 year ago

    Haaz

    Please, Jovoto team, be serious! You don't change rules during play, not in any game! You don't do it in football, nor in any game i know.
    It is not very ethical to change the deadline in this contest, especially as this has been a 2 month marathon, as I understand. You just can't move the finish line 1 hour before finish! "Hey guys, we just found out that you shall keep on running another lap around the stadium!" As a matter of fact, you happened to break the rules of a treaty you stipulated two months ago between hundreds of participants and thousands of spectators and yourselves.

    At the same time maybe you are free to change any rules you like, as this is your home ground, but you can not do it without jeopardizing your trustwhortiness, to say the least.

    Unless I get a good explanation from you very soon, I will definitely hesitate to participate in any of your future contests.
    • bunterberg
      jury
      over 1 year ago

      bunterberg 

      of course not – sending this notification was a mistake due to a misinterpretation of server time and contest time. The contest was open until the end last night - just the notification was wrong.
  • Haaz
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    over 1 year ago

    Haaz

    You can't change the rules after the contest starts...
  • Haaz
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    over 1 year ago

    Haaz

    Above is a quotation from 11-Jun-2010 17:15, by Robhoski
  • voto
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    over 1 year ago

    voto

    cool. i am looking forward to see how your algorithm will work now... ;-)
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    • voto
      over 1 year ago

      voto 

      I agree with you bunterberg. Let's learn from Betacup-contest to make jovoto a good and fair place to work together and not against each other.
    • voto
      over 1 year ago

      voto 

      Good job jovoto!! I believe in your super-algorithm now. ;-)
  • Frieda
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    over 1 year ago

    Frieda

    Dear all,

    we are very sorry for the confusion!

    The RATING PERIOD of the Contest Drink Sustainably was NOT CHANGED.

    According to the official betacup rules (http://www.thebetacup.com/rules/) - the
    rating period ends at 5 pm EST / 11 pm CEST - and that's when it ended.

    The servertime was a little lost in timezones or in the cloud and that's why unfortunately the countdown was not set correctly.

    Hence, there was no changing of the rules during the game, but rather a firm adherence to the rules.

    Once again sorry for the confusion and thank you for your understanding!
  • kaptn
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    over 1 year ago

    kaptn

    Gratulation to all winners.
  • voto
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    over 1 year ago

    voto

    Congratulations to the winners!