Student Team Receives 2019 ALTANA Special Prize in Chemistry
STUTTGART, Germany – A team of students from the Lingen Wirtschaft vocational school was awarded the special prize in chemistry in the 2019 Jugend gründet (Youth Startups) competition for a sustainable business idea. The winners, Lea Großmann, Felix Ströer, Christin Stover, Anneliese Bangert, and Bennet Elfert, can look forward to a trip to one of ALTANA’s largest research and production sites, in Wallingford, Connecticut, where the students will gain exclusive insights into the work processes of ALTANA’s BYK division.
The prospective entrepreneurs entered the competition as a team called “Grün und Clever GmbH.” Their business idea is a perfected mini biogas system for the restaurant trade that produces electricity and heat. What is more, the organic waste can be disposed of. With the innovation, they want to promote ecological thinking in society and ensure that with sustainability everyone can contribute to a better future. During the competition, the students were supervised by their teacher Mariska Knappert, who will fly to the United States with them.