Intelligence in Water Heating

Solar Powered Lamp with a Fire Detector

The first Marketplace for Solar Rooftops

Cooking when the sun goes down

Portable sun tracking solar panels for scouts

Solar powered LED lighting solution for 100% energy saving

Simple but smart energy efficient blinds.

Next Generation of Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors

Cooling the Sun generates air-conditioning with thermal-solar energy.

(a bit of wine, a bit of sea and state your DEAL!) Glyfada, June 13-14 2015 – There’s a Greek Eurovision song from the 70’s called “ligo krasi, ligo thalassa ke to agori mou” (“a bit of wine, a bit of sea and my boyfriend”). Paraphrasing the song to the title of this blog, one… Read more »

A mobile modular and scalable adaptive solar textile.

Self-sufficient water recovery system obtaining potable water quality

Electrochemistry driven conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals

Frankfurt am Main, 28–30 April 2015 – To give us all a relaxing break before a 2-day ClimateLaunchpad Boot Camp, our first meeting was meant to be an introducing part – us to each other and Frankfurt am Main to those who come from other parts of Germany. We spent the evening of 28 April… Read more »

This year was the first time ClimateLaunchpad started the search for cleantech heroes in Lithuania. On the 29-30th of May 12 teams with different ideas on how to tackle climate change were gathered to gain some knowledge about business making. In the 2-day intensive Boot Camp realization models of ideas were questioned, analyzed and outlined… Read more »

Noordwijk 12-13 May – In a typical Dutch way of transportation – by bike – twelve selected teams arrived at the Dutch Boot Camp of ClimateLaunchpad. All participants were very exited to join and the diversity of ideas made it a vibrant and inspiring kick-off. In 2 days participants identified their target markets, adapted the… Read more »

Not only did Desolenator run a tight race in our 2014 European Final, The Guardian also listed them as one of the start-ups of the year. High time we had a chat with founder William Janssen to get an update on life after ClimateLaunchpad. First things first, tell us a bit about the idea behind… Read more »

Meet Kadri, our National Lead for Estonia! Kadri: What is your background? I have studied environmental technology and materials of sustainable energetics. My work and hobbies have been intertwined with environmental issues for already 10 years. My professional experience is pretty diverse. I started in the field of organic food and later as a chemist… Read more »

‘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.

Hydroalgae Power’s idea is to create a perpetual cycle for the sustainable source of energy, water and ammonia; three key resources needed in today’s resource constrained society.

Evovelo wants to design, manufacture and sell highly-efficient solar sustainable vehicles to help reduce the CO2 footprint and make mobility in cities more comfortable and healthy.

Coolar wants to produce a fridge that runs on heat and not on electricity. The cooling process is purely water-based and does not contain any toxic or climate-damaging chemicals. Read all about this cleantech idea.

Second Prize Winner CleanLaunchpad 2014: Desolenator wants to help people reliant on desalinated water by making the process run on solar power.

TRANSPARENT WORLD has invented a new material to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) used in applications ranging from green energy applications, information technologies to smart coatings.

FOURCE presents a measure to desalinize farm water. Read more about this Dutch finalist.

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.