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BeachGuard

Citizen reports, verified into cleanup missions.

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The gap

Reports pile up; beaches stay dirty.

Citizens do report marine pollution. But municipalities can't verify the photos, duplicates and fakes waste crews' time, hotspots go unmonitored, and nothing coordinates the volunteers who would gladly help.

Who hurtsCoastal municipalities, tourism operators, environmental NGOs, and the marine ecosystems under plastic, nets, and oil.
The bottleneckCleanup is reactive: crews respond to whoever shouts loudest, not to where the hazard is worst.
The originDeveloped by POWERFEM participants, inspired by EcoAgora's verification concept.

The solution

From photo to mission, automatically.

BeachGuard runs reports through a verification and scoring pipeline: detect, verify, analyse, coordinate, resolve. When a location crosses the red line, a cleanup mission creates itself.

The one-day build

The workflow is the demo.

The full vision uses computer vision and ML prediction. On hackathon day those are simulated with mock scores and canned classifications; what's real is the pipeline from report to score to mission, which is the actual innovation.

The 3-minute pitch

  1. Hook: "Cities drown in pollution reports and still clean the wrong beach first."
  2. Submit two reports for the same marina: the map turns red and a mission creates itself, sized and timed.
  3. Accept the mission as a volunteer, complete it, rank up from Eco Beginner toward Marine Guardian. Show the municipality's clean dashboard.

Why it wins

Judges' scorecard.

FeasibilityVerification and vision simulated honestly; the report-to-mission workflow runs for real.
ImpactFaster response, preventive cleanups, and volunteers pointed at the worst hazard first.
User-friendlinessThree clear roles (citizen, volunteer, municipality), each with one obvious action.
SDG 14 SDG 11 SDG 17 Software only CV and ML mocked

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Co-funded by the European Union

POWERFEM · Empowering Women through Eco-Tech Youth Innovations · Erasmus+ KA210-YOU-27BF1750. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.