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TU Delft Impact Contest
Canopy.ag
Worldwide, pomaceous (e.g. apple and pear) farmers are facing a labour shortage. They rely on seasonal workers from abroad to harvest their crops, but the availability of these workers is scarce. In addition, labour costs are rising as governments introduce stricter regulations for foreign workers. Labour shortages and rising costs are putting pressure on farmers’ production capacity. A solution is needed to ensure food security and support struggling farmers.
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Field Sense by Agile Robotics
Modern agriculture faces increasing pressure to produce more with fewer resources. Farmers struggle with labor shortages, rising costs, and inefficient use of chemicals, which also cause environmental damage. Current solutions rely on large and expensive operations that lack precision and timely insights. As a result, farmers often react too late to issues like pests, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies. There is a clear need for smarter, more efficient systems that enable continuous monitoring, reduce resource use and recude costs, and support sustainable, high-yield farming.
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Haku Maglev
Rail transport is slow, capacity is underutilized, maintenance is high, and performance is weather dependent. Additionally, around 25% of trains in the Netherlands still operate on diesel, causing high emissions and unsustainable rail operations.
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Topper Talent
Engineering students at TU Delft often work underpaid jobs that don’t utilize their full technical skills, while startups and small tech companies struggle to find affordable, highly skilled talent for short-term engineering tasks.
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Samen Hypotheek
Students and recent graduates face an extreme shortage of affordable housing, making individual homeownership nearly impossible. While buying a home collectively with a group of friends is a viable solution, the financial, legal, and organizational barriers are incredibly high. Traditional mortgages and legal frameworks are not suited for multi-owner group structures. This leaves young adults locked out of the housing market, unable to build equity or secure stable living conditions during a crucial phase of their lives.
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Lite
Creating high-quality, music-synchronized light shows is either very time-consuming, expensive, or both. Small venues can’t afford dedicated lighting operators and end up with generic or poorly timed lights, while large events spend huge amounts of time manually programming and time-coding shows. There’s a need for a tool that keeps creative control in human hands but removes the repetitive, technical work making it easier and faster to build, test, and run professional light shows at any scale.
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BioDetect Diapers
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most frequent and impactful health issues among elderly people (in particular woman) living in long-term care facilities. This is the case due to atypical symptoms, cognitive decline, and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB), which on its way can lead to delayed diagnosis, inappropriate antibiotic use, and costly hospitalizations. This leads to unnecesasary discomfort and a decline in overall health. At the same time, caregivers are left managing frequent diaper changes, more complex care needs, and rising treatment costs. Which all could be prevented by earlier UTI diagnosis.
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LogicLayer
Industrial distributors process complex, high-stakes orders via messy "analog inbound", emails with blurry photos of rusted nameplates, 40-page foreign manuals, and hand-drawn sketches. Processing these manually means highly-paid sales engineers waste hours playing data-entry clerk just to extract basic specs. Because processing is chronological, a lucrative €50,000 engine order can sit unread while an engineer wastes 40 minutes deciphering a €500 pump request. This bottleneck costs companies major deals. Worse, generic AI cannot solve this because it hallucinates technical specs and poses massive data privacy risks when fed proprietary ERP data.
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STACKED
Students struggle to eat well, not because they lack awareness, but because their environment makes healthy choices difficult. Time is limited, cooking feels complicated, fresh ingredients spoil quickly, and nutrition advice is overwhelming. Affordable options are often unhealthy, while healthier options require planning, knowledge, and effort. As a result, students default to what is fastest and easiest rather than what is balanced or nutritious. The core need is not more information about healthy eating, but a practical system that removes friction and makes balanced meals simple, accessible, and achievable within the realities of student life.
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fevy.app
Planning and sharing social events today is fragmented and inefficient. Event details are scattered across calendars, messaging apps, and platforms, forcing people to manually copy information, chase updates, and miss changes. Existing tools separate private and public events and rely on outdated sharing models, while informal social gatherings remain unmanaged or undiscovered. As a result, organizers waste time coordinating, participation drops, and newcomers struggle to access local social and cultural life.
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