LOW-TECH INNOVATION COMPETITION

LOW-TECH & DECATHLON

Decathlon's mission is to make the pleasure and benefits of practicing sports sustainably accessible to as many people as possible: SPORT FOR ALL!

For us, LOW-TECH is a particularly relevant approach since it makes it possible to develop know-how, products or services for a sporting practice with low environmental impact, reliable and promoting collective resilience, while deeply questioning the needs .

COMPETITION OBJECTIVES

Promote low-tech culture in sports practice and reveal the talents of tomorrow!

THE GAME'S RULES

• Open to any adult resident in France.
• Team of 1 to 5 people.
• Projects must be posted on the co-creation platform before July 7, 2023.
• Only projects in the ideation or prototyping phase are eligible.
• Commercialized or confidential projects are not eligible.
• In the spirit of sharing, the projects that best meet the criteria can be consulted online.

THE BRIEF

The sober and exciting hike!

Imagine an original solution to a problem encountered before, during or after hiking.

For example :

• How to keep your food cool when hiking in hot weather?
• How to regulate your temperature in hot weather?
• How to avoid getting lost?
• How to combine “comfort” and “hygiene” when hiking?
• How to encourage children to go hiking?

COMPETITION CONDUCT

• Registration : from February 15 to May 1, 2023.
• Project submission : from May 1 to July 7, 2023, via the co-creation platform.
• Announcement of the 5 finalist projects : from July 13, 2023
• Workshop : from July 18 to 20, 2023, at the Mountain Store Decathlon in Passy (74), for the 5 finalist projects.
• Closing ceremony and announcement of the winning project: July 20, 2023

DELIVERABLES

When submitting the project (from May 1 to July 7, 2023), you will have to answer the following questions:

• What problem does my project address?
• In concrete terms, how does that work ?
• How is this low-tech?
• How is this unique, original, new?
• What difficulties did you encounter during the development of the project?
• What are your next steps?
• We strongly recommend that you attach photos or videos (sketches, prototypes, experiments, use test, tutorial, environmental impact estimate, for example). It is also possible to attach a PDF document, provided that it is concise and completes the questions you have already answered.

REWARDS

• For the 5 finalist teams: 3 days at the Mountain Store in Passy (74) with the Quechua teams to prototype their project. The package includes half-board as well as travel reimbursement of up to €150 per person.
• For the winning team : a prize of €2000

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The rules are available here .