A big thank you for your support over the last 10 years!
Last week, with our Cleantech Futures and Cleantech Venture Day event formats, we had a big gathering, both online and in-person, to celebrate, reflect and, above all,, showcase new solutions and opportunities to make a green impact. It was fantastic to see so many of you.
Here are some of this month’s highlights:
🎤 Post-COP26, hear how Oxfordshire is taking pioneering action and delivering a much-needed zero-carbon economy
🤝 Cranfield University and Anglian Water are looking for innovative solutions
🌱 Three amazing support programme for SMEs trying to make a positive impact
Our best wishes and special thanks to Hugh Parnell and Robin Young for their input as chairman and board member respectively, and a very warm welcome to Alison Cavey as our new chair.
With your support and your innovations, may we carry on connecting people, corporates, universities, innovators, investors for a smarter, more sustainable future!
🌊 BioLargo Water
BioLargo Water develops innovative, sustainable water treatment technologies for a better water future.
🗽 Thorelli Associates
Helping foreign and domestic companies minimize legal risk in the United States.
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The Future Focus series highlights the innovative thinking and business practices that will tackle the world’s greatest challenges.
Post-COP26, hear how Oxfordshire is taking pioneering action and delivering a much-needed zero-carbon economy
📅 17th – 18th November 🎫 Free | Online
Decarbonising our economy is an enormous challenge, but Oxfordshire is one of the leading lights in clean growth. Join the conference to learn more about their work.
CleanTech Collaborations Day: The Matchmaking Conference for Large Corporates and Green Innovative SMEs
📅 18th – 19th November 🎫 Free | Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hear from corporates seeking solutions for clean business development post-Covid19 and/or sustainable upscaling. View the calls here.
The event is run by the SCALE UP partnership of which Cambridge Cleantech is a key partner.
Cranfield University needs your help to achieve net zero carbon by 2030
To ensure that its estate and activities operate to the highest environmental standards, the University is searching for innovative solutions within their strategic areas:
☀️ Energy Saving, Energy Storage, and Renewables
🚗 Electric Vehicles and Sustainable travel
🌊 Waste management, and Water Management
🐛 Biodiversity and Monitoring systems for wildlife
😷 Pollution control
RISE Processum is looking for companies with solutions as well as companies that would benefit from collaborations
This includes:
🛠️ Technology solutions for utilization of various industrial side streams such as organic residues (sludges, fibers, biomass etc) and inorganic residues (ashes, sludges etc).
🧪 Companies with solutions in connection with processing of biobased feedstocks to support with their test & demo, expertise, process development and networking.
CDT is looking for technologies that can enable value recovery through the reuse or conversion of waste oil from manufacturing facilities.
In particular, CDT is aiming to utilise waste oil streams to produce useful products (non-exhaustive examples of which are syngas, hydrogen, chemicals etc)
The Western Power Distribution (WPD) team are looking for innovative ideas that enable them to continue facilitating the energy transition at the lowest cost to our customers while keeping the lights on.
TechInnovation is a unique open innovation platform, organised by our Singaporean partner IPI, for large corporations to engage with the innovation community and seek technology solutions and partnerships to solve specific business challenges.
The Climate Innovation Summit promotes local and global discourse about the role of Israeli innovation in responding to climate change. The summit is being organised by Cambridge Cleantech’s Israeli partner PLANETech
How can green infrastructure benefit biodiversity? How can active and electric transport infrastructure be accessible for all? Join the Future Leap Network for this online series. Discounted for CC members.
Explore your business’s marketing needs, identify a clear message, understand the needs of your clients, and set KPIs with confidence in this Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor workshop.
CWIC 2021 will consider the value of the wireless network within digital and circular economies, exploring innovations and ideas that maximise wireless’ potential to improve the future.
Come along to hear about seafaring explorers, discuss our shared purpose and unity, and meet fellow modern-day traders and entrepreneurs, artists and creatives, as well as civil servants and diplomats. Marine scientist Andreas B. Heide will share insights from his latest expedition Arctic Sense.
This new open call from Digital Catapult is designed to accelerate the development of early-stage businesses developing innovative and commercially focused digital solutions, working towards the creation of sustainable supply chains and enabling a circular economy.
The Franco-British Trade & Investment Awards celebrates French and UK business achievements during a challenging economic context, with a ceremony at the Residence of Her Majesty’s British Ambassador to France.
This year’s themes: tech & innovation, clean growth, SME of the Year, and jury award.
This six-month programme offers a game-changing support package to help the leaders of high-growth engineering and technology SMEs to scale their businesses to the next level. It includes a £10,000 grant for leadership training, plus expert coaching, mentoring and much more.
The Climate Accelerator programme will start in January 2022, working with start-ups who have innovative solutions for addressing the climate emergency.
This program seeks & supports startups working across the energy transition within the critical areas of Energy Production, a Net-Zero Future, Digital & Operational Enablers and Disruptors.
Innovation & Growth Specialists offer fully funded coaching and mentoring support to accelerate and scale innovating businesses. Innovate UK EDGE helps to diagnose pain points in your business and well as identify and resolve barriers to commercialisation and growth. Help is available in these areas:
Sourcing funding and finance
Honing strategy and structure
Exploiting business innovation
Entering new markets
Find out how Innovate UK EDGE helped Cambridge Cleantech member Caldera to improve their investor proposition and maximise their chances of getting funding.
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