ClimateLaunchpad 2026

ClimateLaunchpad is the world's largest green business idea competition. Our mission is to unlock the world's clean tech potential that addresses climate change. The competition creates a stage for those ideas. ClimateLaunchpad is part of the EIT Climate-KIC Entrepreneurship offerings.

AIMED AT: Anyone with a promising cleantech idea who dreams of becoming an entrepreneur should join. You can be a startup, SME, researcher, student, public organization, consultant, engineer, a combination of the above or something that doesn't fit a job title. Don't worry if you don't have a business plan ready. We'll help you strengthen your plan or teach you how to create one.

Let us challenge you, join the competition. But before we do, we just want to make sure that you:

• have not yet started a business or started less than two years ago;
• have no substantial income;
• have not attracted more than $200,000 in investment;
• have not yet sold products, solutions or prototypes on commercial terms.

The themes selected for this year:

1. Adaptation and Resilience
2. Blue Economy
3. Circular economies
4. Clean energy
5. Food systems
6. Sustainable Mobility
7. Urban Solutions
8. The next big thing

The program, run by AVAESEN in Spain for eleven years, helps aspiring entrepreneurs turn their clean technology ideas into global businesses. Renewable energy, food and agriculture, water, transportation, industrial technology, and other approaches to addressing climate change are areas where the program seeks top national talent.

Send applications to: https://climatelaunchpad.org/application-form/

INSCRIPTION DEADLINE FOR SPAIN UNTIL: April 22, 2026.