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The Innovation Challenge Hub
WHERE CLEANTECH ENTREPRENEURS MEET OPPORTUNITIES
What Will You Do Next?
Looking to develop, pilot, or scale your innovation? Take advantage of the myriad of opportunities provided by Innovation Challenges for which corporates, investors, accelerators, and governments are recruiting.
Cleantech Group helps innovators by sharing live (and expired) challenges that have captured our attention from our daily work engaging with the global cleantech ecosystem. The Innovation Challenge Hub is a useful resource to keep coming back to.
Cleantech Group is an active partner on these challenges:
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Innovation Challenges
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Urban Future Prize Competition
Deadline: April 28, 2025
Climate Adaptation Prize
The Climate Adaptation Prize focuses on sol...The Climate Adaptation Prize focuses on solutions that help communities and ecosystems adapt to and build resilience against the impacts of climate change. Startups with technologies or business models designed to strengthen adaptation and resilience are encouraged to apply.
Innovate UK
Deadline: April 28, 2025
First of a Kind (FOAK) 2025
The 2025 First of a Kind rail competition is now open! £5 mi...The 2025 First of a Kind rail competition is now open! £5 million government funding to drive pioneering technology to improve passenger experience, encouraging more people to choose rail and supporting economic growth as part of the Plan for Change.
The 2025 First of a Kind Comp has the following themes:
- Platform Train Interface
- Personal Safety
- Bridge Strikes
- AI for complex processes.
UNICEF
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Call for Innovative WASH Solutions
The challenge: Insufficient climate-sensiti...The challenge: Insufficient climate-sensitive data and an understanding of integrating climate change impacts into WASH programming present challenges to WASH practitioners modeling the long-term sustainability of water resources, impacting the service’s resilience.
East Ventures, Temasek Foundation
Deadline: June 4, 2025
Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC)
Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC) is Indonesia’s l...Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC) is Indonesia’s largest climate innovations tech competition. Building on its success in 2023 and 2024, CIIC continues to provide a platform for tech innovators to showcase their sustainable innovations in addressing ecological challenges and mitigating the impacts of climate change. CIIC 2025 provides the platform for teams to compete in three tracks for a total prize pool of Rp10 billion to pilot their solutions within Indonesia.
Sustainable Ventures
Ongoing
Innovation Challenge: Lambeth
Sustainable Ventures is launching a competition to help SMES...Sustainable Ventures is launching a competition to help SMES & Established Businesses solve their net zero challenges and Innovators scale their solutions particularly in low carbon buildings, waste management, behavior change, and low carbon mobility.
Imagine H2O Asia
Ongoing
Pilot Funding & Scale Up Support
Asia-Pacific water challenges that are addressed by entrepre...Asia-Pacific water challenges that are addressed by entrepreneurs receive pilot funding and scale up support with partners.
Plug-and-Play
Ongoing
Mobility Accelerator
Autonomous vehicles, connectivity, electrification, smart ci...Autonomous vehicles, connectivity, electrification, smart cities.
Rolling applications year round. Stage-agnostic.
EcoLabs
Ongoing
EcoLabs-Continental Urban Mobility Accelerator
Spanning urban mobility, electrification, energy efficiency,...Spanning urban mobility, electrification, energy efficiency, and sustainable transport.
Open to applicants in all regions/continents.
EVA
Ongoing
Electric Vehicle Accelerator
Charging infrastructure, EV fleets, services supporting elec...Charging infrastructure, EV fleets, services supporting electric mobility.
Announced in April 2022. Open to companies located beyond Singapore.
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Industries are undergoing definitive transitions toward a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient industrial future. At every stage from initial strategy to final deals, our services bring corporate change makers, investors, governments and stakeholders from across the ecosystem, the support they need to thrive in this fast-arriving and uncertain future.
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