Technische Hochschule Augsburg launched a fund for open source Solarpunk fund. This year it is experimental and only their students are eligible.
Projects could, for example, deal with passive systems or research new or rediscovered materials and areas of application, develop measures for climate protection and climate adaptation, etc. But we don’t want to limit your creativity: You can dream and try out new things - innovative and completely new ideas are definitely welcome.
Projects must be:
- Open Science: All blueprints, source codes, or designs are made available under a permissive license1 and on a public/non-profit repository with a long-term preservation strategy2 for reuse.
- The prototypes created (and residual materials), which were financed from the fund, are to remain at the THA and be available for further reuse.
- All steps are to be presented in a comprehensible and reproducible manner; there is no “secret knowledge”.