Deadline: 22-Apr-2022
Applications for ClimateLaunchpad: Green Business Ideas Competition are now open.
ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest clean-tech and green business ideas competition across 50 countries. The competition was founded and initiated by EIT Climate-KIC – the European Union’s major climate innovation initiative – and facilitated across Australia by Climate-KIC Australia.
The full program is free of charge for anyone within Australia accepted into the competition. The boot camps will be delivered in a hybrid in-person and online through Zoom, and it is up to you to have the relevant software installed and adequate internet to participate.
How it works?
- Train: Learn all you can on how to successfully start your green business. ClimateLaunchpad kicks off with an intensive Boot Camp & follow-up coaching sessions.
- Compete: Present your investor-ready pitch deck at State pitch nights, National Finals and the Global Grand Final. Convince their jury and you’ll convince any client or investor.
- Launch: Yep, of course there are prizes and pathways for the Global Grand Final winners. The real prize Networking opportunities and a chance to find your first customer or investor.
Why join?
- Free training: You get full training to develop your idea into a scalable, investible business model. Their trainer, Hans, is an expert, accredited business skills trainer and advisor with over 25 years of experience. Their former participants love working with him – he has over a 95% approval rate from their past participants.
- It’s free: That’s right. Completely free. They don’t take any equity or IP. They just help you train and launch. And it’s not just the training. They will cover your travel expenses to the National Finals, or to get to the in-person bootcamp for regional NSW participants. They make sure you are able to cover the expenses you have to prepare the materials you need to deliver your very best pitch.
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You can win some great stuff:
- They collaborate with their sponsors, their industry contacts and the entrepreneurship community here in Australia to make sure that once your ClimateLaunchpad journey is done, you have access to the pathways, networks and opportunities you need to help your business thrive. Stay tuned for details about what you get in the 2022 program.
- At the international level, the top-16 in the world get automatic access to EIT Climate-KIC’s Accelerator program, the foremost cleantech accelerator program in the world. There are also cash prizes of up to €10,000 up for grabs for the best teams at the global level.
Eligibility Criteria
- The competition is open to any Australian resident, 18 years and older, with an innovative cleantech or green business idea – whether it’s fully fledged or sketched on the back of a coaster. As an early stage start-up, small- to medium-sized enterprise, researcher, student, public organisation, consultant or anyone else you’re welcome.
- They encourage you to apply as a team of at least 2 people. You don’t have a team mate, yet. You can still apply and if successful invite a colleague or friend to attend the Boot Camp with you.
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Please ensure you meet the Eligibility Criteria:
- You can not enter ClimateLaunchpad if you’ve already been accepted into EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator or have participated in ClimateLaunchpad with the same business idea in a previous year.
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You can enter if:
- you have not yet started a business or your company has been incorporated for less than a year (definition: your legal entity does not exist for more than 1 year);
- you have attracted less than € 200.000 in investment (definition: no funding as a venture. Funding as a student is not counted);
- you have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.
For more information, visit Climate-KIC Australia.
For more information, visit https://climate-kic.org.au/clp22/