Competition rules

Compete with your best solution, with the help of electric motors, generators and/or frequency converters.

How to participate

  • You need to be enrolled in a Swedish university

  • 1-2 people per team

  • The jury will focus on innovation, sustainability, the impact of the solution/idea and how the idea can contribute to business.

  • The jury consists of ABB managers and sustainability experts from R&D

  1. Summarize your idea (shortly) in English and elaborate it further after you have had the chance to get inspired by ABB experts. 
  2. Join the Expert day with ABB experts, March 08
  3. Send in your elaborated idea to ABB, March 27
  4. Notification to finalists, April 08
  5. The finalists get the chance to present/pitch idea for jury in Västerås, April 25

    Prizes
  • 1st: a Macbook Pro (16 000kr)

  • 2nd, 3rd: Gift card

ABB will cover the cost of a second-class train ticket for finalists who need to travel to Västerås on the day of the final.

Competition terms and condition
The Competition is conducted by ABB AB, Motion (“ABB”). By participating in the competition and submitting an innovative and original solution or idea (the Submission) the student confirms that the student has read and accepted the competition information and meets the criteria for participation, including the privacy policy.
The student also warrants that all details provided with the student’s Submission are true and accurate. The Submission shall be created and owned by the student and does not without permission contain any other party’s intellectual property rights.  
The Submission will be owned by the participating student generating the Submission. ABB has a free non-exclusive right to use the Submission owned by the student for the purposes of the competition, including for internal evaluation thereof, and for any promotional and marketing purposes. The use right includes the right to display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, communicate to the public and re-format the Submission.

The prizes are not transferable or exchangeable against e.g. monetary payment.

ABB will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate participants for any incorrect or inaccurate information or for any technical error that may occur during the competition.

All decisions made by ABB regarding the competition are final.

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