At the annual conference of the Confederation of European Junior Enterprises, EPFL's young entrepreneurs won the award for the most innovative project in Europe. The association oversaw the development of a "safety dropping system" to be mounted on a drone to artificially trigger avalanches. Junior Enterprise EPFL has come up with a secure and cost-effective approach to lowering the risk of avalanches. Its "safety dropping system" easily attachable to a drone, weighs only 5 kg yet can deliver a payload of up to 20 kg. What's more, it is capable of operating below -20° Celsius, and it costs less than 10,000 francs to produce. This system earned the EPFL students the award for the most innovative project in Europe at the annual conference of the Confederation of European Junior Enterprises. This year, the projects were judged by IBM.
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