You have a business idea about sustainability and you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur. In that case, ClimateLaunchpad could be your ticket to European and global success. Your cleantech idea can be about an all-out mind shift in urban mobility, a sustainable transition in the food chain or any other way to tackle climate change.
How it works
In 2015 the competition is open to participants based in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Check the submission deadline per country.
Small print
Let us challenge you, join the competition. But before you do, we just want to make sure that you:
have not yet started a business or you started it less than one year ago;
have no substantial revenue;
you have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment;
you have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.
So even if your idea is on the back of a napkin, you’re most welcome to join. All good? Enter your idea by filling out the application form. Our National Juries select the best proposals to join the National Competitions. If you’re in, these are the steps you’ll walk:
Step 1: Boot Camp
ClimateLaunchpad kicks off with a 2-day Boot Camp in your own country. Our trainers will teach you all you need to know about jumpstarting your business.
Step 2: Intensive coaching and National Finals
The Boot Camp is followed-up with a period of intensive coaching. You’ll perfect your pitch, value proposition and business model. After that, you’ll be ready to rock the National Final where you get to pitch in front of your National Jury. The Top-3 of each country enters the European Final in September in the Netherlands.
Step 3: European Final in the Netherlands
The Top-3 of all National Finals get a chance to pitch their idea in front of the review board of Climate-KIC Accelerator. If you impress them, you might gain access to Climate-KIC Accelerator, the 18-month real life business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.
The 8 teams selected in the European semi-finals to perform in the Grand Final, will get direct access into Climate-KIC Accelerator without having to pitch to a review board. Besides this, the overall winner of the European Final receives € 10,000, the runner up gets € 5,000 and the idea that comes in third place wins € 2,500.
Calendar
Submission deadline Cyprus
May 29th 2015
Boot Camp Cyprus
June 20th 2015 -
June 21st 2015
Final Cyprus
July 27th 2015
ClimateLaunchpad is Europe’s largest cleantech business idea competition.
http://climatelaunchpad.org/
