Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 24, 2025

Applications are open for the Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) 2025. The OIC is a contest designed to stimulate recent pondering and foster innovation in areas which can be important to the Elia Group’s mission. This 12 months, they’re putting individuals on the coronary heart of their transformation journey. Under the slogan ‘People First’, the OIC 2025 invites begin-ups, SMEs, and progressive groups from world wide to assist them develop options that improve the expertise, security, and growth of their workforce as they speed up the power transition.

As a key participant within the European power system, Elia Group understands that delivering a sustainable and dependable electrical energy provide isn’t just about infrastructure and know-how – it’s in regards to the individuals behind the operations who make sure the power provide retains flowing across the clock. Elia Group’s workers are central to every thing they do. In a quickly evolving work surroundings, they intention to equip them with the very best instruments to carry out their essential roles, whereas persevering with to develop each professionally and personally.

This 12 months’s problem focuses on 4 precedence areas within the Human Resources area:

• Knowledge Management
• Cultural Change
• Security Awareness and Behaviour
• Safety and Wellbeing

Prizes

• The profitable group can be given the OPPORTUNITY to undertake a proof of idea value as much as €50,000 with help from Elia Group employees (both based mostly at Elia in Belgium or 50Hertz in Germany). 

Eligibility

• Startups, SMEs, and progressive groups from world wide are welcome to apply.
• Solutions ought to match one of many precedence areas above.

Application

• Fill within the application type to take part. You can be requested to reply a number of brief questions and can be given the chance to submit a 3-slide deck that outlines your thought.
• Once the deadline for functions has handed, 10-15 proposals can be chosen for Round 2 of the OIC. The firms concerned can be assigned a enterprise specialists from Elia Group to assist them form their proposal and higher perceive our enterprise and wishes. This spherical will final from 1 September to 10 October.
• A number of firms from Round 2 will then be shortlisted for Round 3, the ultimate of the OIC 2025, which can be held on 4th of December in Brussels. The finalists will pitch their concepts to a panel of judges, which can be made up of Elia Group C-degree executives and invited jury members from business and enterprise ecosystems. At the top of the night, a winner can be chosen.

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For extra data, go to Open Innovation Challenge.