Deadline: 10 December 2024
Applications are now open for Hello CleanTech 3.0, a programme designed to accelerate green innovation.
The goal of the Hello CleanTech 3.0 programme is to create a platform that will enable start-ups, innovators and researchers to reach international corporations and establish potential cooperation.
Programme partners will have the opportunity to individually assess and establish a direct relationship with companies, providing suitable and future-proof solutions. Thanks to the programme structure, each solution can find its potential investor or customer. In addition, selected applicants will have the opportunity to pitch their solutions at the Demo Day.
If you are an industry partner, venture capital company or business angel seeking innovation, join them in shaping a sustainable future. Be part of the cleantech revolution – apply now and help transform the energy sector!
Benefits
- Benefits for participants:
- Partnership with Top Corporations
- Access to services provided by program partners in specific tracks
- Sandbox opportunities
- Potential access to relevant infrastructure through cooperation opportunities with leading industrials
- Technology Support
- Technology experts support & mentoring offered by partners
- VC Community
- Access to global VC funds and Community Partners
- Fast Track To Investment
- Fast Track to the investment process from InnoEnergy and Partners
- Demo Day
- Live online pitching to top investors for selected Teams
- Partnership with Top Corporations
Tracks
- In this online and equity-free programme they are looking for start-ups and scaleups in the following verticals:
- Energy Storage
- Extending lifetime: cathode cycling optimisation, improvements in aqueous electrolytes, improved cell degradation models (root cause identification)
- Active materials composition optimisation
- Lowering production costs: dry-coating processes
- Fast charging: anode dual-gradient structures, cathode electrode composition, internal thermal modulation
- Increased cell capacity/safety: 3D electrodes, cell structural properties
- Novel inspection methods: ultrasound, fibre-optic sensing
- Recycling: improved cost efficiency, reduced environmental impact, black mass impurities detection
- SEI (solid electrolyte interface) for anode stability and improved swelling capture
- Novel power technology hardware and software (optimised transformers, cablification technologies, conductor insulator material improvements, etc.)
- Critical Raw Materials and Sustainable Mining
- Software-based solutions for optimising resource identification and exploration
- Novel solutions of ore examination, grading, and sustainable processing methods
- Solutions enhancing operational safety (equipment and transport, drone inspections, operational modelling, etc.)
- Post-mining closure solutions (tailings and water management, restoration, etc.)
- Biomining technologies
- Critical raw materials recycling
- Green molecules
- Green hydrogen production via electrolysis
- Hydrogen storage and logistics solutions
- Renewable non-electrolysis (low carbon) hydrogen production (e.g. from biomass or waste)
- Transport applications for hydrogen, focusing on hard-to-abate transport sectors
- Natural hydrogen: enabling technologies for exploration and production
- Solutions facilitating biogas and biomethane uptake
- Industry decarbonization
- CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilisation) technologies
- Power-to-X technologies
- Synthesis and upgrading solutions for e-fuels and e-chemicals, P-to-X projects
- Valorisation of off-grid renewables – enabling local power valorisation without grid access
- Enhanced rock weathering and mineralisation
- Enabling solutions for CCU/CCS, including carbon capture
- Industrial applications of hydrogen for industry decarbonisation and substituting natural gas
- Industrial heat pump technologies
- District heating decarbonization technologies
- Power-to-heat solutions
- Heat storage, including seasonal large scale heat storage solutions
- Waste heat valorisation technologies
- Innovative solutions for HVAC
- Circular Economy & Bioeconomy
- Biomass to energy, fuels, and feedstocks – conversion technologies and valorisation solutions
- Waste valorisation to fuels and feedstocks – recycling solutions and conversion technologies
- Scalable solutions for low- carbon fuels from bio-feedstocks and waste (aviation, marine, long-haul transport)
- Bio-feedstocks for large-scale chemical production and specialty chemicals
- Circular solutions for end-of-life renewable equipment
- Innovations in plastic waste recycling to feedstock or materials
- Water treatment technologies
- Textile recycling
- Digital solutions
- Improving resource efficiency through technology
- Reducing carbon footprint by optimising energy usage, reducing emissions, assessing carbon footprint for others, and promoting sustainable practices
- Promoting sustainable behaviour through the use of digital platforms and technology
- Driving systemic change by creating new business models
- Solutions for optimising or extending the life of the existing grid (monitoring, dynamic component rating, intelligent analysis tools, etc.)
- Solutions enhancing grid flexibility
- Low-voltage grid technologies (novel voltage control, demand-side management, etc.)
- V2X (Vehicle to grid, home or load integration into the grid, etc.)
- Data centre solutions
- Energy efficiency innovations
- Green building design
- Renewable energy integration
- Waste heat reuse
- Water efficiency
- Predictive maintenance, energy optimisation, real-time monitoring
- Sustainable supply chain management
- Other (Wildcard)
- Other sustainable solutions
- Energy Storage
Eligibility Criteria
- Start-ups, as well as scientists and inventors who develop effective technological solutions, accelerate the development of the clean technology sector, and make a real impact on the economy of the European Union can apply to the programme.
- The programme is open to start-ups from all over the world.
For more information, visit Hello Cleantech.
