ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Varies

Applications are open for the ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition 2025. The ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneurship choices of Climate KIC. Through ClimateLaunchpad, they create a stage for the individuals who have nice concepts for local weather innovation and assist them take the primary steps of entrepreneurial considering, enterprise planning, and a pitch round their concept – creating these concepts into begin-ups and making a worldwide affect.

Because your concept has the facility to form a greener future! ClimateLaunchpad is your gateway to a worldwide motion of changemakers tackling local weather change with daring, revolutionary options.

By becoming a member of, you’ll acquire the OPPORTUNITY to check and refine your concept with by their boot camp & teaching and join with a worldwide community of consultants and traders, and appeal to the visibility wanted to speed up your affect. Whether you’re seeking to launch, scale, or safe funding, ClimateLaunchpad offers you the instruments, information, and group to show your local weather innovation into actuality.

Prizes

• 2025 Prizes:
  • In 2025, they’re proud to announce that the primary winner from every National Final and the Top-2 in every Regional Final will likely be awarded with a visit to Vienna, Austria for his or her Global Grand Final occasion.
  • Additional Prizes within the National and Regional Finals could differ per nation and area, and prizes for his or her Global Grand Final will likely be introduced quickly.
  • The large prize? A bunch of latest acquired expertise & information and networking alternatives to get what you are promoting thriving.
• In the occasion that the identical collaborating staff wins each the National Final and finishes within the Top-2 within the Regional Final, just one prize will likely be awarded.
• In the case of money prizes, all prize winners are answerable for any taxes, wire switch prices and different doable prices associated to receiving the prize.
• Climate KIC reserves the precise to withdraw or change prizes at any time at their discretion.

Eligibility

• Anyone with a promising cleantech concept who desires of changing into an entrepreneur ought to be a part of. You is usually a new begin-up, SME, researcher, pupil, public organisation, advisor, engineer, a mixture of the above or one thing that doesn’t match a job title. Don’t fear when you don’t have a marketing strategy prepared! They will present assist!
• You can solely submit your application in your individual nation.
• You can solely apply in your individual nation and you may solely enter if:
  • You haven’t but began a enterprise or your organization has been included for lower than two years  (definition: your authorized entity doesn’t exist for greater than 2 years);
  • Your new enterprise has attracted lower than €200.000 in whole funding (this contains all funding, like grants, authorities loans, angel and/or VC investments, et cetera)
  • You haven’t but offered merchandise, options or prototypes on industrial phrases.
• Eligible Countries:
  • Angola, Argentina, Austria, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Israel, Japan, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
• They are searching for early-stage concepts with the potential to make an actual difference within the battle in opposition to local weather change. Whether your concept helps cut back carbon emissions, helps communities in adapting to local weather impacts, or allows others to take local weather motion, they wish to hear from you!
• They welcome improvements throughout all cleantech sectors—from renewable vitality and round financial system options to meals system transformation, sustainable mobility, nature-primarily based approaches, and past. Even in case your idea continues to be only a sketch on the again of a serviette, you’re inspired to apply.

Application

Application deadline varies by nation. Ensure to submit your application earlier than your nation’s deadline.

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For extra info, go to ClimateLaunchpad.