The TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition supports the ‘development of a green economy, with an objective to identify innovative technologies and solutions for a future with smart energy’. The top three selected for the Grand Final will win cash prizes of US$1 million, US$100,000 and US$50,000 respectively. Participants in the competition will also have the ‘opportunity to engage in face-to-face interactions with industry experts, renowned mentors, and investors, fostering project growth’.

AI/robotics; food technology; cultural creativity; and biotechnology are among the 12 tech verticals targeted by this multi-million dollar competition, which is ‘seeking high-quality startups worldwide’ to facilitate ‘entrepreneurs to grow and expand their business in Beijing’. There are seven major competition areas globally, including Chinese mainland, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Africa. There will be 200 prize winners in the competition, including 12 first prizes, 36 second prizes, 68 third prizes and 84 winner prizes. 

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute’s Artists Development Programme (ADP) in partnership with Cité internationale des arts (Paris) and neimënster (Neumünster Abbey Heritage Site for Culture)  (Luxembourg). Two visual artists will be selected (born after 1 January 1990) from an EU Member State to work on the theme “Disruption: The Imprint of Man.” The theme ‘broadens the focus beyond the environment to include topical social issues in the European Union: the decline of solidarity and respect as values, generational clashes, and the meaning of intra and international relations. Artists are invited to meditate on human behaviour and its consequences. “Disruption” is therefore understood not only in its physical sense, but also as a social, cultural and behavioural phenomenon’.

Open to startups in central and eastern Europe (CEE) this €25 million fund offers up to €250k to early-stage startups. More than 30 startups will be supported annually through the AIP Seed 2.0 early-stage investment fund, which is targeting the most promising young companies from the CEE. Through its unique model the fund will evaluate and respond to startups within a week.

‘This four-year global competition invites innovators and teams from anywhere on the planet to create and demonstrate solutions that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans, and sequester it durably and sustainably. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history.‎’

‘Have an innovation ready to supercharge?’ is the big question Regeneration.VC is asking innovators worldwide. And if your company is pioneering circular solutions that can tackle the climate emergency then you should seriously think about giving Leonardo Di Caprio, a strategic advisor to the fund, and the team at Regeneration.VC a call. The fund, which recently brought down the gavel on its first $45 million pot, aims to harness the epoch-making changes that can be triggered by people power to inspire a paradigm shift in the consumer industries, so its future is one defined by ‘circular and regenerative principles’.