ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition 2023

The ClimateLaunchpad competition is your ticket to global success. Provided you have a green business idea and have what it takes to become an entrepreneur.

Application Deadline: 18th May 2023

Competition Timeline

• Applications open March 1st 2023
• Online Course & Boot Camps March – July
• National Finals June – mid-August
• Regional Finals October/November

Check the competition calendar for all countries

About the Award: Our competition is your ticket to global success. Provided you have a green business idea and have what it takes to become an entrepreneur.

Your idea can be an innovation in renewable energy, a sustainable transition in the food chain, a mind shift in urban mobility or any other way to tackle climate change.

Train. Compete. Launch.

How it works

To enter the competition submit your idea or innovation with environmental impact. We’ll help you fast track that idea into a business and bypass all possible pitfalls along the way. You’ll learn how to get your idea funded and launched.

Once you are selected to join ClimateLaunchpad, the Boot Camp and coaching sessions will help you develop your idea to a rock-solid plan. You will pitch this during your National Final and the Regional Finals.

All entries will be reviewed and ideas that fit the bill of our competition get invited to join.

Type: Contest

Eligibility: Your idea can be an innovation in renewable energy, a sustainable transition in the food chain, a mind shift in urban mobility or any other way to tackle climate change.

Even if your idea is on the back of a napkin, you’re most welcome to join.

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 no more than € 200,000 in investment;
• you have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.

Eligible Countries: Select countries

To be Taken at (Country): Online

Number of Awards: Not specified

Value of Award: There is prize money to be won. The overall winner of the Global Grand Final receives € 10,000, the runner up gets € 5,000 and the idea that comes in third place wins € 2,500. The top 16 teams selected by the jury to perform in the Final Round of the Global Grand Fina, will automatically get direct access to the Climate-KIC ClimateLaunchpad Accelerator, the renowned business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.

Duration of Award: Once you’re accepted to join the competition, the games begin:

Step 0: Mini-course

After your application teams are automatically invited first for participation in a CLP Mini-course to help National Leads to make a better selection or to prepare you for the Boot Camp.

Step 1: Boot Camp
The top teams chosen by our National Leads take part in the ClimateLaunchpad National programme which kicks off with a multi-day digital Boot Camp. Our trainers will teach you all you need to know about jump-starting your business.

Step 2: Intensive coaching and National Finals
The Boot Camp is followed by a period of intensive coaching. You’ll perfect your pitch, value proposition and business model. After that, you’re ready to rock your National Final where you’ll pitch digitally for a National Jury.

Step 3: Regional Finals
The top teams of each country go to the Regional Finals where they pitch in front of the region’s best and brightest.

The big prize? A bunch of new acquired skills & knowledge and networking opportunities to get your business thriving. And of course infinite glory.

Check the competition calendar for all countries

How to Apply: Apply now

• It is important to go through all application requirements in the Award Webpage (see Link below) before applying.
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