Climate Change Innovation Challenge

A recurring challenge the centre has run more than once, with winner and runner-up galleries on its page going back several years. It is closed between rounds. An earlier edition ran with Transworld Group as corporate partner.

What you get

• Financial support for the two winners and the two runners-up
• Capital for building an MVP or validating a pilot, as a mix of grant and equity
• One-to-one mentoring and coaching
• Online workshops and a bootcamp
• A network of collaborators and partners
• Introductions to investors for follow-on funding

Who can apply

• Teams that have already built a prototype or MVP and intend to validate it with a pilot and commercialise it
• With a solution addressing at least one of the listed themes: clean energy, food and agriculture, mobility and transport, ports and shipping, green buildings and cities
• An original proposal that can be adopted quickly and works at large scale, with a large addressable market
• Preference goes to ideas with a patent filed or one that could be filed

How selection works: applications are scored out of 100 across impact, team strength, feasibility, relevance to the theme, and uniqueness, at twenty points each, and finalists pitch.

How to apply: Through the programme page when the next round opens.