Skipso monthly digest feb13 cleantech grants, awards, incentives

Skipso Monthly Digest
Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

February - March 2013

powering the Cleantech Revolution www.skipso.com

This Month on Skipso
• 20 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to Skipso’s
funding database

• Types of grants added:
o 4 Prizes / Awards
o 11 Research & Development Grants
o 2 Start-up Grants
o 1 Production incentive
o 2 Other

• 0 grants approaching application deadline
1

• The Skipso funding section this week has reached 1010 Cleantech
grants, awards, incentives, all are accessible for free on: http://
www.skipso.com/grants/grid.html

SKIPSO DIGEST: FEBRUARY - MARCH 2013 powering the Cleantech Revolution www.skipso.com

Enterprise Qatar · Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Al Fikra Qatar National Business Plan Competition 2013

• Grant Type: Other
• Amount: Qar 180,000
• Geographic Focus: Qatar
• Deadline: 4th February 2013

http://www.alfikra.me/

• In 2011 Enterprise Qatar and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, launched Al Fikra Qatar's
Business Plan Competition, a joint initiative to educate entrepreneurs.
Al Fikra is an executive, educational and coaching program specifically designed for Qatari
entrepreneurs and students enabling them to deliver business plans to establish new and
successful private businesses.

Illuminating Engineering Society

IESNYC Lumen Awards

• Grant Type: Prize - Awards
• Amount: $ 1,000
• Geographic Focus: USA

http://www.iesnyc.org/NewsArticle.aspx?newsid=61844/

• The IESNYC Lumen Awards program was conceived and managed by the New York City
Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1968 and developed to encourage and
publicly recognize excellence, professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design.

Harvard Business School – Club of New York

HBSCNY Alumni New Venture Contest

• Grant Type: Research & Development
• Amount: $ 75,000

http://www.hbscny.org/article.html?aid=749

• The NVC contest is designed to encourage alumni to launch promising new businesses and
social-impact ventures.
The 2013 competition is open to all HBS alumni, worldwide. Finalists and Semi-finalists from
NY competition would be given consideration for funding by HBSAANY (if desired by the
entrepreneur).

First Look West (FLoW)

FLoW Clean Energy Business Challenge

• Amount: $ 155,000

http://flow.caltech.edu/home

• First Look West (FLoW) invites student teams with game-changing ideas throughout the
Western U.S. to participate in the Department of Energy’s national business plan competition for
clean energy.

Welsh Government

Enterprise Zone Business Rate Scheme

• Grant Type: Other
• Amount: £ 20,000,000
• Geographic Focus: UK

http://enterprisezones.wales.gov.uk

• A £20 million Business Rate Scheme will open this month to provide financial support for
business rates liabilities incurred by small and medium-sized businesses located in the seven
Enterprise Zones in Wales.
The scheme will run over four financial years from 2012/13 to 2015/16 and will target support at
boosting job creation and business growth.
The first call for applications will be made on 15 January 2013 and will close at 9.00am on 11
February 2013.

Welsh Government

Wales Renewable Energy Producers Business Rate Scheme

• Grant Type: Production Incentive
• Amount: £ 1,500,000

http://business.wales.gov.uk/news-events/news/wales-renewable-energy-
producers-business-rate-scheme/

• The Wales Renewable Energy Producers Business Rate Scheme is a discretionary grant
intended to support growth and jobs in the renewable energy sector across Wales.
In supporting new-start businesses and jobs expansion from renewable energy producers, the
scheme seeks to assist growth of the sector in Wales and help increase capacity to generate
heat and power from renewable sources.

Whitworth University

Inland Northwest Business Plan Competition

• Grant Type: Price - Awards
• Amount: $ 22,500

http://www.whitworth.edu/Academic/Department/SGCM/
BusinessPlanCompetition/Index.htm

• The business-plan competition is the largest of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Entrants may
compete for prizes in three categories totaling $22,500.
The Inland Northwest Business Plan Competition (BPC) is open to students of Eastern
Washington University, Spokane Community College, Gonzaga University and Whitworth
University.

Hall University

Pirates Pitch 2013 - Seton Hall University Venture Fund
Competition

• Amount: $ 10,000

http://blogs.shu.edu/piratespitch/

• Pirates Pitch 2013 is the third annual Seton Hall University Venture Fund Competition,
sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Student teams compete for more than $10,000 in prizes and business services, double the
prize amount from previous years!

Rice University

RICE BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION

• Amount: $ 1,300,000

http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=d4l7t8lab.0.ppus5niab.jhq5l6dab.
10733&ts=S0865&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rbpc.rice.edu

• The Rice University Business Plan Competition is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level
business plan competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and
Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business.
This is the 13th year for the competition. In that time, it has grown from nine teams competing
for $10,000 in prize money in 2001, to 42 teams from around the world competing for more than
$1.3 million in cash and prizes.

YES!Delft Students - FSR - Energy Club

The Dutch CleanTech Challenge

• Grant Type: Start-ups
• Amount: € 5,000
• Geographic Focus: Europe

http://www.cleantechchallenge.nl/

• This is a unique chance for students to take advantage of the opportunity to get consults from
experts and to extend their sustainable idea into a start-up.
They are also introduced to a network of clean technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists
and investors.
The main goal is for students to transform an idea in the field of green technology/sustainable
energy into a start-up that can be self-sustaining or attract external funding.

Technology Strategy Board

Technology Inspired Innovation

• Amount: £10,000,000

http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspired-
innovation3.ashx

• The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £10m in fast-track and collaborative research
and development projects that stimulate innovation across the key enabling technology areas of
advanced materials, biosciences, electronics, sensors and photonics and information and
communications technology.

Academics for companies - Vlerick Business School

CleanTech Challenge Belgium

• Grant Type: Start-ups
• Amount: € 5,000
• Geographic Focus: Europe

http://cleantechchallenge.be

• CleanTech Challenge is an innovative 3 stage competition for students hosted by the London
Business School and University College London.
Since the start in 2009, KU Leuven Research & Development has endorsed this competition
and supported teams from the KU Leuven. In a collaboration with AFC and Vlerick, this has
resulted in the establishment of a Belgian competition where the winner has a guaranteed place
in the 3rd stage bootcamp finals in London.
Help to build a better future through environmentally-friendly technology and win a €5,000 cash
price.

MIT Entrepreneurship Center

MIT CLEAN ENERGY PRIZE

• Amount: $ 300,000

http://cep.mit.edu/

• The MIT Clean Energy Prize‘s mission is to be the catalyst for a unified competition to help
develop a new generation of energy entrepreneurs and great new companies.
This will be achieved by working to stimulate productive relationships between academic,
community, industry, and government organizations with strong interests in meeting the world’s
energy challenge through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Competition-Collider Activity Center - Walltopia

International Architectural Competition-Collider
Activity Center

• Amount: € 25,000
• Geographic Focus: Bulgaria

http://www.collider.eu/

• The scope of the competition is the development of an architectural project and schematic
design for the “Collider Activity Center” according to the enclosed project assignment and
supplementary materials. The competition program is coordinated with the Chamber of
Architects in Bulgaria and the Union of Architects in Bulgaria.

Department of Energy’s (DOE) –
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

ACC Clean Energy Challenge

• Grant Type: Prize - Awards
• Amount: $100,000
• Geographic Focus: US
• Deadline: 1st March 2013

http://www.accnrg.com/

• The $100K ACC Clean Energy Challenge is a business plan competition encouraging students
from all universities throughout the southeastern United States to develop business plans for
new clean energy companies, is now accepting entries.
The ACC Clean Energy Challenge, supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), invites business plans with
commercialization potential in the clean energy space, including projects related to renewable
energy, energy efficiency improvements and advanced fuels/vehicles.


Digital & Creative Clyde Launchpad Competition

• Amount: £ 900,000
• Deadline: 6th March 2013

http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/digital-and-creative-clyde-
launchpad.ashx/

• The The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £900k in innovative R&D projects
centered on the emerging cluster of creative and digital businesses in Glasgow.

The competition aims to stimulate this hotspot of digital and creative industries by enabling
companies to go further and/or faster towards commercial success. In partnership with Creative
Clyde, we want to draw investment and people into the area, and to encourage networking and
collaboration to strengthen the cluster.

Elizabeth Murray Trust

Funding Boost for Future Factory

• Grant Type: Price - Awards
• Amount: £ 4,000
• Deadline: 22nd March 2013

http://www.futurefarmer.org.uk/ /

• The Award aims to showcase ways in which Scotland can produce food, fibre and wood
products from farms and crofts in a commercially viable way while maintaining the natural
capital of the land and minimizing the ecological footprint of farming activities.
The winning farmer will receive £4,000, a commemorative plaque and a package of support to
help them promote their ideas to other farmers and land managers.


Technology challenge in low carbon vehicles

• Amount: £ 16,500,000
• Deadline: 27th March2013

http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-challenge-in-low-
carbon-vehicles.ashx/

• The Technology Strategy Board, in partnership with the Office for Low Emission Vehicles and
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is investing up to £16.5m in highly
innovative collaborative R&D projects within low carbon vehicles that aim to achieve significant
cuts in CO2 from road transport.

Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)

Energy Storage Component Research And Feasibility
Study Support Scheme

• Amount: £ 3,000,000
• Deadline: 27th March 2013

https://www.gov.uk/innovation-funding-for-low-carbon-technologies-
opportunities-for-bidders /

• The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched an innovation grant
scheme for Energy Storage Component Research and Feasibility Study to support:
- component level research for technologies to improve particular components or materials within
an energy storage system which could be deployed to meet grid-scale storage needs in the UK
electricity network;
- development and demonstration of technologies needed to enable deployment and integration
of energy storage systems into the UK electricity network;
- system level feasibility studies to investigate deployment issues and operational aspects of
electricity storage systems, including integration of storage systems into the UK electricity network.

AusIndustry

Clean Technology Investment Program

• Amount: $ 800,000,000
• Geographic Focus: Australia
• Deadline: 31st March 2013

http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/programs/CleanTechnology/
CleanTechnologyInvestment/Pages/default.aspx/

• The Clean Technology Investment Program is an $800 million competitive, merit-based grants
program to support Australian manufacturers to maintain competitiveness in a carbon
constrained economy. This program will provide grants for investments in energy efficient
capital equipment and low emission technologies, processes and products.

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