EcoLens
EcoLens’ goal is to educate and incentivise institution’s communities towards a more sustainable nutrition.
Goals
EcoLens is an app designed to promote sustainable food consumption within institutional communities.
Users log their meals, participate in friendly competitions, and engage in educational quizzes through interactive games and challenges. By making conscious food choices, they earn points, climb the leaderboard, and unlock rewards, all while contributing to their faculty’s overall sustainability score.
Through this collective effort, EcoLens fosters greater environmental awareness and encourages long-term sustainable habits.
Institutions
Host the game to engage their communities in sustainable eating habits, fostering awareness and reducing their collective food-related environmental footprint.
Players
Learn about sustainable eating while participating in fun and rewarding eco-friendly challenges.
Eco-companies
Sustainable food companies benefit by gaining visibility and customers through sponsorships, as users redeem in kind rewards.
History
EcoLens was born from a collaboration with DLAB, led by Prof. Robert West, and PhD student Kristina Gligoric. The initial development of the app began as a semester project by Master’s student Andrea Perozziello at EPFL.
Before launching the digital platform, we first tested the concept with a physical pilot project: EcoLens Challenge. Held over 2–3 weeks in four EPFL cafeterias: FoodLab Native, FoodLab Alpine, Piano, and Ornithorynque. The goal was to encourage students to make more sustainable food choices by selecting A or B-rated menus. Participants who chose these options received stickers, which they placed on a team map in each cafeteria along with their team name and student number. At the end of the challenge, winners were randomly selected from all participants and received prizes during Vivapoly.
The rewards were carefully chosen to promote conscious consumption initiatives on campus, such as EpiLibre and Vorace (zero-waste shops) and Limoo, a startup delivering plant-based gastronomy to EPFL.
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