Applications Invited for World's largest Green business idea competition

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About the Organization

ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Our mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. We fill a gap in developing a pipeline of early-stage climate ventures and provide a platform for those ideas to flourish. ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneurship offerings of Climate KIC.

About the 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.

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.

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:

• Adaptation & Resilience
• Blue Economy
• Circular Economies
• Clean Energy
• Food Systems
• Sustainable Mobility
• Urban Solutions
• The Next Big Thing

Prizes

2025 Prizes:

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  • In 2025, they are proud to announce that the number one winner from each National Final and the Top-2 in each Regional Final will be awarded with a trip to Vienna, Austria for their Global Grand Final event.
  • Additional Prizes in the National and Regional Finals may differ per country and region, and prizes for their Global Grand Final will be announced soon.
  • The big prize? A bunch of new acquired skills & knowledge and networking opportunities to get your business thriving.

• In the event that the same participating team wins both the National Final and finishes in the Top-2 in the Regional Final, only one prize will be awarded
• In the case of cash prizes, all prizewinners are responsible for any taxes, wire transfer costs and other possible costs related to receiving the prize.
• Climate KIC reserves the right to withdraw or change prizes at any time at their discretion.

Eligibility

Who can enter the Competition:

• Anyone with a promising cleantech idea is welcome to join the competition
• You may only enter in your country of residence (as defined under 3d);
• You cannot enter ClimateLaunchpad if you’ve already been accepted into Climate-KIC Accelerator or have participated in ClimateLaunchpad (or the former CleanLaunchpad) with the same business idea in a previous year;
• You can only enter if:
• You have not yet started a business, or your business has been incorporated/registered for a period of less than two years.
• You have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment (definition: no funding as a venture. Funding as a student is not counted);

How to Apply

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