TInnov Orléans 2025.
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The TInnov challenge
TInnov is BRGM's annual open innovation event, where creativity and collaboration take centre stage.
Like a collective marathon, participants with a wide range of backgrounds have 36 hours to come up with solutions to the subsurface challenges of the energy transition.
The 8th edition, in partnership with ITM and the University of Munich, will bring groups together on the basis of student participation.
BRGM experts and their industrial and innovation partners work with them to jointly design solutions to the new subsurface energy challenges.
This intensive day will be punctuated by brainstorming workshops and pitches to boost inspiration for the development of future geological solutions.
The topic
The subsurface and new energy challenges
As the energy transition gathers pace, the subsurface is emerging as an area of opportunity for sustainable, high-performance solutions.
TInnov is an invitation to explore and jointly design new approaches to optimising the emerging uses of the subsurface and its energy potential.
From native hydrogen to storage solutions, geothermal energy and the optimisation of energy systems, each identified challenge opens the way to decisive advances.
How can we make the hydrogen sector more efficient and resilient? How can the subsurface be transformed into a key energy storage and management factor? What new synergies can be created between the surface and subsurface to meet the growing needs of urban and industrial areas?
Students, companies, researchers and engineers are pooling their expertise to devise solutions to the new energy challenges from under the ground.
9 potential innovation challenges
- Urban energy needs and constraints in relation to the subsurface
- Geothermal energy to support the hydrogen industry
- Underground engineering to optimise the multi-functional nature of the subsurface
- Energy efficiency of hydrogen
- Underground energy storage
- Extraction and use of native hydrogen
- Energy systems and links between the surface and the subsurface
- Underground spaces as microbial reactors
- Green hydrogen and critical water and mineral resources
TInnov Orléans 2025 : logos des partenaires du projet.
© IMT / Université de Munich
Agenda
Conviviality, inventiveness and challenge
- Jointly build innovative concepts that can be developed with the support of BRGM and its partners
- Promote your projects and partnership relations
- Gain an insight into the innovation process in the course of a friendly and dynamic one-day event
Key figures
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80.00people
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8.00thedition
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60.00students
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10.00BRGM and IMT experts
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20.00companies
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10.00innovation facilitators
Why take part?
Students, PhD students and postgraduates, boost your CV and your career opportunities in a fun and original atmosphere:
- Gain in skills by learning new methods of innovation and co-developing the best solution with the support of experts in the field
- Get noticed by your future employers
Companies and experts, explore solutions to your problems and support the students:
- Inspire the groups with your experience feedback
- Offer your advice to challenge their solutions
- Test concepts to improve prototypes
- Vote for the most remarkable concepts and feed your monitoring activities
- Discover new talent to develop your new projects
A LinkedIn group for the latest TInnov news
To keep up to date with all the latest news on TInnov, follow the concepts developed and meet potential partners, join us in the TInnov@BRGM Group on LinkedIn!
