LAUSANNE 2015
Hydro Contest
SHAPING THE BOATS OF TOMORROW
HydroContest
A unique meeting
Flagship event of the Hydros Foundation, the HYDROcontest is the first international student competition dedicated to naval energy efficiency.
Both incubator of ideas, awareness-raising and education tool, the HYDROcontest gathers the future engineers and architects worldwide around a common issue:
Students are invited to design, buid and pilot the most energy efficient boat.
High technology
Sharing
Innovation
Research
Hydrocontest’s contribution
The purpose of this unique global discussion platform is to raise the awareness among tomorrow’s engineers and architects of the need to design efficient nautical technologies, which can also be applied in industry, and to provide the means for promising projects to be developed into specific applications that will improve the naval ecological balance.
Long distance race
Private boat
Mass Transport
The principle
The Hydros Foundation provides each team with the same electric engine and a grant to foster innovation. The amount of available energy is imposed to travel a set distance and the ranking is made according to the running time.
Students have several months to design and build one or two boats, with maximum dimensions of 2.50 x 2.50 x 2.00 m, before coming to contend with their peers on Lake Geneva.
Teams compete in two categories: the Mass Transport category in which each vessel must hold 200 kg of ballast to simulate the displacement of a cargo vessel, and the Private Boats category in which the prototypes, loaded with 20 kg, represent leisure boats.
A village open to everyone
Discover, share and enjoy!
A village covering 4,000 sq. m., located opposite the Vidy Pyramids, will welcome the teams and the public. Access to the installations is free, and the team paddocks are open so that everyone can share and discuss the values that drive us. Races can be followed from the shore, for a total immersion in this world of technology, innovation and efficiency.
PADDOCKS VISIT
Each of the competing teams has a stand where they store their boats and where they can carry out any necessary adjustments and repairs.
RC FOILING BOATS
A pool of model boats offers visitors, particularly the youth, the opportunity to take the helm of remote-controlled foiling models and immerse themselves in the Hydros world.
EXHIBITION
“Hydrofoils, from crazy pioneers to high efficiency” An area entirely dedicated to the history of hydrofoils: the incredible wings that make boats “fly” above the water.
Hydros Foundation
Smarter Energy
Raising public awareness on the importance of technology as the key to a smarter use of energy, educating future generations, supporting and promoting innovation for energy efficiency, this is the mission of the Foundation of which the HYDROcontest is the cornerstone.
The organization will be available for teams, sponsors, partners and journalists, to assist them until the start in July 2015, and for the duration of the event.