ClimateLaunchpad Moldova - конкурс идей зелёного предпринимательства

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Do you have  a promising green business idea and dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur?
Follow now the world’s largest cleantech business idea competition!

 

What is all about?

ClimateLaunchpadis the world’s biggest clean-tech business idea competition.The competition is organised in 27+ countries this year and for the second time in Moldova! It offers great benefits starting with a 2-day Business Boot Camp and 6 dedicated Coaching Sessions to get prepared and participate at the National Finals and win prizes. The Top-3 of Moldova National Final get a chance to go in Estonia and pitch their idea in front of the review board of Climate-KIC Accelerator and win up to 10.000 EUR and gain access to Climate-KIC Accelerator - the 18-month real life business school where great ideas grow into great businesses.
This competition is a chance to pitch your idea in front of renowned national and international juries. A chance to be a part of a platform on which to thrive and really grow!

Who can enter the Climate Launchpad Competition?

Early start-ups, SMEs, a team of researcher, students, public organisation, consultancy, engineering company or a combination of these.

What kind of ideas this competition is looking for?

If you have an idea, or are an early stage start up with a climate impact proposal, we encourage you to apply. This green idea can be about an all out mind shift in urban mobility, a sustainable transition in the food chain or any other way to tackle climate change. It does not need to be high tech, but it does need to have a positive impact on climate and environment.

What happens after submitting my idea?

Our National Juries select the best proposals to join the National Competition. Those that are selected will move along 3 steps:

Step 1: Boot Camp – 2nd and 3rd of July, 2016

ClimateLaunchpad kicks off with a 2- day Boot Camp. You will learn all you need to know about jump-starting your business.

Step 2: Intensive coaching and National Final - August 20th 2016

The Boot Camp is followed-up by 6 Coaching Sessions. You will learn to perfect your pitch, value your proposition and business model. After that, you’ll be ready for the National Final where you get to pitch in front of a local Jury and win prizes and a spot to the European Final in Estonia.

Step 3: European Final – Tallinn, 7&8 of October

The Top-3 selected ideas within the National Final will enter the European Final. In this ultimate final you’ll pitch your idea in front of the EU’s leading investors and entrepreneurs. Impress them and gain access to Climate-KIC Accelerator, the 18-month real life business school where great ideas grow into great businesses. The European Top-10, selected in the Grande Finale, will get direct access into Climate-KIC Accelerator without having to pitch to a review board.

Besides this, the overall winner of the European Final receives € 10,000, the runner up gets € 5,000 and the idea that comes in third place wins € 2,500.

It will take place in Tallinn on 7&8 of October and it’s fully covered by organizers.

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What is #ClimateLaunchpad? We are dead serious about tackling climate change, and we’re convinced that investing in ideas and entrepreneurs is the way to go about it. That’s why we started #ClimateLaunchpad. Submit your #cleantech idea and be part of the next generation cleantech entrepreneurs! www.climatelaunchpad.org Ce este ClimateLaunchpad? Competiție de idei de afaceri cleantech. Combaterea schimbărilor climatice - protecția mediului - inovație și antreprenoriat. Află mai multe despre competiția care are loc în 27 de țări inclusiv Moldova urmărind spot-ul de mai jos.

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You might want to see the Climate Launchpad website for more information andFAQ.

Also, take a look and get inspired by the finalists of 2015 editionhere.



ClimateLaunchpad is an initiative of Climate-KIC.

Climate-KIC is the EU’s main climate innovation initiative. It is Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on mitigating and adapting to climate change. Climate-KIC consists of companies, academic institutions and the public sector. Climate-KIC is one of the partnerships created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the European Union body that fully integrates the knowledge triangle of business, education and research by forming dynamic cross- competency partnerships –Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). KICs develop innovative products and services, start new companies, and train a new generation of entrepreneurs.http://www.climatekic.org

 

 

The EcoVisio mini-grants program

Mini grants

One way to support social innovations is to co-fund a part of their start-up needs, whether it’s an entrepreneurial or a purely socio-ecological initiative.

Since 2018, EcoVisio periodically launches calls for financing social and ecological initiatives.


Beneficiaries of 2018

In 2018 EcoVisio launched the first open call and selected 13 initiatives, which received goods or services in value from 100 to 900 EUR. Main criteria for selection were: relevance, impact and expected sustainability. The initiatives were very diverse, ranging from natural coloring of fabric, organic gardening demo plot set up, setting up a natural bakery to developing an alternative school for children and upgrading a small business in furniture parts production employing people with special needs.

Who they are?

  1. "Laborator de vopsirea naturala a textilelor" by Victoria Butanu
  2. SRL "Iarba Noastră" by Natalia Matiescu
  3. "Ecoparadis" by Vasile Niculiță
  4. SRL "AVA-Mob" by Andrei Levința
  5. "Centrul de Creatie al Copiilor - Floresti" by Ala Stircu
  6. "TEP - Tinerii pentru ECOPlastic" by Ternavschi Vladimir
  7. ”Art-Labyrinth” by Voroniuc Alexandr
  8. "Integrare prin reciclare" by Tatiana Seul
  9. "Дом Эволюции (дом альтернативного образования для детей, родителей, учителей)" by Ayna Idrisova
  10. ”Voyager3 MD - лаборатория книг и настольных игр” by Vladislav Rudenco & Iulia Shetinina 
  11. "Levantica" by Maria Axenti
  12. "Torbesc" by Ecaterina Tarus
  13. VERBE upcycling fashion brand by Ecaterina Verbitscaia
  14. "Separate waste collection in village Riscova" by Dmitrii Mikitenko

We will soon add more info about each startup and what is the funding being transformed in.


Mini-grants in 2019

At the second edition, the team had to choose out of 38 initiatives from different parts of Moldova and areas of activity. Overall, seven beneficiaries were chosen, the priority being given to the ones that: 

  • haven't benefited from such a financial support from our part before,
  • demonstrated the best the connection between their initiative and its social / ecological impact, 
  • had the best arguments as to why they need this support and how it will be used. 

1. ОО "Медики за экологию" (Dubasari) - public association that informs the population about the environmental situation and its impact on human health. 

Support for: tables and chairs to be used continuously at various fairs, exhibitions and other events connected to ecology. 

1 Mediki za ecologiu

2. School for young mothers «Рождение» (Tiraspol) - initiative ”Breastfeeding - health for children, mother and planet”, meant to promote breastfeeding as something healthy, natural and beautiful.

Support for: Materials needed to hold educational and informative sessions with future and young mothers. 

3 Rojdenie

3. "TeenGo" (Bălți) - a public association specializing in non-formal education for youth - workshops, trainings, sports, cultural and simply fun events.

Support for: Industrial sewing machine and other tools necessary for transforming old banners in ecobags. 

4 TeenGo

4. Sezatoare Hub (Chisinau) - an initiative where women could gather together for an exchange of experiences, to learn various handicrafts: to cut, to sew, to crochet, to make textile from hemp and linen, to color the with natural pigments, etc.

Support for: Sewing machines, thread, table for common work, shelves for depositing the materials. 

5 SezatoareHub

5. The Community of the Historical and Ethnographical Museum  (Sângerei) - the local community promoting historical, cultural and natural heritage of Singerei district and town; educating the town's youth in the spirit of responsibility towards history, society and nature. 

Support for: a professional photocamera with accessories - in order to share with wide public the process and the results of the numerous activities. 

6 Muzeu Etnografic Singerei

6. BodyExtend.Me (Chisinau) - an initiative producing extensions for kids' "bodies".

Support for: An electric sewing machine, a tool to add pressbuttons, pressbuttons. 

7 BodyExtendMe

7. SeedItForward (Chisinau, Singerei) - agroforestry initiative promoting tree-growing, organic agriculture & apiculture, composting, etc. 

Support for: 1) Professional blender - for producing more natural soap. 2) Wood chopper - to use all wooden "waste" from gardens and other plantations (by transforming it into mulch), but also for more qualitative composting of food waste (AskaWorm initiative). 

8 SeedItForward soap

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