‘It was overwhelming to get a glimpse of Europe’s cleantech innovation future.’ says Climate-KIC’s Deputy Director Entrepreneurship Frans Nauta about the Grand EU Finals in this interview…

‘… a start pistol shot of the day in the only way it was intended: the sound of 90 persons cheering, clapping and shouting. Doors flung open and everyone rushed into their assigned rooms to start the sessions. The Games had begun.’ An impression of the CleanLaunchpad finals written by project manager Sara Schützer.

‘Not only did the competition work as intended but most importantly: both start-ups and staff had an awesome time and were greatly inspired from each other.’ Sara Schützer, Project Manager CleanLaunchpad, is wrapping up this years’ edition in her blog.

‘Before our pitch we put a pinch of salt into each of the judges water so that they could immediately understand that we are in the solar desalination business!’ Alexei Levene tells about the day they became second and won access to Climate-KIC’s Accelerator.

Press Release, October 30th 2014: CleanLaunchpad 2014 First Prize Winners was Wavetube (Sweden), Second Prize Winner was Desolenator (UK) and Third Prize Winner was Cambond (UK). Start-up OR-KESS (Germany, Hessen) became the audience favorite of this Climate-KIC competition.

CleanLaunchpad 2014: First Prize, WaveTube, Second Prize Desolenator and Third Prize Cambond

Meet the proud winners of CleanLaunchpad national final Hessen in this blog.

CleanLaunchpad boot camp Cyprus & Greece was very hands on, with teams getting nitty-gritty with their deal, their market segments, and the financials. But it was more than that. Please continue reading the inside story of Stelios Yiatros.

CleanLaunchpad Poland chose the historical place Casle Topacz to work on their cleantech business ideas such as energy efficiency of vehicles and paper pallets for logistics. Please continue to read this blog.

More (cleantech) ideas, more multi-disciplinary teams, more partnering, more value creation, more impact, then the world would be a better place. Please read on about the boot camp experience in Sweden & Denmark.

What is “tough love”? And how can a cleantech start-up grow from it? In Berlin they know the answers…

In “a risk free zone’ in Hessen eight teams were further developing their cleantech ideas. It was intensive but rewarding: all were surprised by their progress. The beginning of a steep learning curve!

One July day, 10 teams with 10 great ideas on how to tackle climate change. During the 2-Day boot camp in Birmingham the participants had achieved a huge amount. The thought of where they could be a year from now is an exciting one… Read all about them.

Out of 78 business ideas submitted in the Netherlands*, the 15 best ideas were brought in for the first CleanLaunchpad Boot Camp, on 16 and 17 June. What kind of ideas and what the participants thought of it, you’ll read in this blog.