ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. ClimateLaunchpad offers training, coaching, and support in order to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. 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 idea with environmental impact.

There are three rounds to the competition: 

Step 1: Boot Camp. ClimateLaunchpad kicks off with a 2-day Boot Camp in your own country. Our trainers will teach you all you need to know about jump-starting your business.
Step 2: 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 in front of the National Jury. Winning teams of National Finals get to compete in the Global Grand Final.
Step 3: Global Grand Final. 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 Final, will automatically get direct access to the Climate-KIC ClimateLaunchpad Accelerator, the renowned business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.

Fields of interest: health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, hardware

Waiting for startups with: idea or team 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking