ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition 2020

 ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition 2020

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: June 2020 (The important thing is to get your form submitted before your country’s deadline)

About the Award: We are working on solutions to keep our programme going in this new reality with safety and accessibility as our primary drivers. The most significant change is that the entire 2020 edition of our competition will be remote and executed online.

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. The winners of each Regional Final will go on to compete in the Global Grand Final.
Even if your idea is on the back of a napkin, you’re most welcome to join.

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:

• Online Course & Boot Camps May-July 2020
• National Finals June – early August 2020
• Regional Finals late August – early September 2020
• Global Grand Final End of September

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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