ClimateLaunchpad: The Green Business Ideas Competition
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.
From ideas to impact.
How it works
ClimateLaunchpad is for early-stage innovators with a green idea and the drive to turn it into a successful business. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to test your concept, our free programme helps you bypass the pitfalls of starting up.
We provide the tools to help you get funded, launched, and scaled. Once selected, you’ll join an intensive Boot Camp and coaching sessions to transform your idea into a rock-solid business plan. You’ll then put your skills to the test, pitching at National and Regional Finals.
All applications are reviewed, and every idea with the potential for environmental impact is invited to join the journey.
The programme
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.
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.
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.
Regional Finals (online)
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.
Global Grand Final
The top teams from each region process to the Global Grand Final to pitch it out in front of an expert panel.
8 competition themes
We work with eight competition themes, representing a selection of the most pressing and relevant focus areas of our time in our fight against climate change.
This ensures that ideas are judged equally against their peers by industry experts, ensuring that the best of the best rise to the top.
The selected themes for this year:
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- Adaptation & Resilience
- Blue Economy
- Circular Economies
- Clean Energy
- Food Systems
- Sustainable Mobility
- Urban Solutions
- The Next Big Thing
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 two years ago
- have no substantial revenue
- you have attracted no more than € 200,000 in investment
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