Daan Hurtecant with his Master Thesis "Launch of an Ecolabel for Passenger Aircraft" was named the winner of the Green Aviation Student Challenge 2021 on 28th October 2021 in a ceremony at Hotel Hafen Hamburg (https://www.hotel-hafen-hamburg.de). The Master Thesis is so far the last in a string of final theses and projects supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Scholz at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Work on the "Ecolable for Aircraft" started already in 2015.

The "Ecolable for Aircraft" shows a rating for an aircraft with its engine type and seat layout. Based on this rating, passengers can select the most eco-friendly single flight. Furthermore, it is possible to determine the most eco-friendly flight between origin and destination that consists of no, one, or more intermediate stops. It is also possible to determine a score for the environmental performance of an airline. The metric is defined such that also a comparison with other modes of transport is possible. Details on http://ecolabel.ProfScholz.de.

Since 2020, the "Green Aviation Student Challenge" is part of the "Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Prize". It promotes young talents with innovative ideas for a "green aviation".

With the "Green Aviation Student Challenge" the jury of the Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Award honors future-oriented ideas that could make flying "greener". Light materials, materials of natural origin, cradle-to-cradle approaches - the range of impulses is broad and the importance is equally high, because the aviation industry has to rethink.

The "Green Aviation Student Challenge", is endowed with 800 EUR and is bestowed with the kind support of Krüger Aviation. The family company from Barsbüttel (east of Hamburg) is a pioneer and world market leader in the manufacture of plastic components for aircraft cabins. Nils Stoll, CEO of Krüger Aviation GmbH, can be seen in this video handing out the award to Daan Hurtecant.

The "Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Prize" (https://www.hamburg-aviation.de/en/yo...) was established by Hamburg Aviation to foster talented young people with innovative ideas in northern Germany’s aviation industry. This plays a long-term role in maintaining the competitiveness of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as a centre of aviation and keeping well-qualified academics here.

Participants can look forward to the very best networking opportunities within the aviation cluster as they come into direct contact with member companies. Hamburg Aviation thus supports young professionals as they make the move from academic training to career.

The Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Prize is presented annually in the categories "Bachelor", "Master", and "Green Aviation" with the support of Airbus, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport and Innovation (BWVI), the Hamburg Centre of Aviation Training Lab (HCAT+), Hanse Aerospace e.V., HECAS, Krüger Aviation and TREO. It has one prize for the best Bachelor Thesis, a second prize for the best Master Thesis, and a special prize for a final thesis in "Green Aviation".

Hamburg Aviation (https://www.hamburg-aviation.de) is working for the aviation industry in the metropolitan region of Hamburg: Airbus, Lufthansa Technik, Hamburg Airport and more than 300 other companies with a total of over 40,000 highly qualified employees. Together they cover the complete life cycle of an aircraft and the entire value chain of aviation.