PowerUp! Polish regional final startup competition for early-stage startups with an innovative idea in the energy sector.
The international market is waiting for energy startups
Reducing the costs of heating buildings by using solar energy, a heat pump, and a patented heat exchanger, or a project that allows for reducing energy consumption of cooling devices - does it sound innovative? These projects are just some of the winners of last year's PowerUp! by InnoEnergy*. On June 19, 2017, applications for the new third edition of the largest competition for start-ups from the sustainable energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe began.
The competition creates a vast opportunity for Polish innovators to implement and develop their projects and become known internationally.
- PowerUp! provides a platform for presenting ideas that might otherwise go unnoticed – and significantly helps to develop innovation in the sustainable energy sector in the Central and Eastern European region. The winning technologies and other feasible ideas will not only help Europe protect the environment, but also after their commercialization, with the help of InnoEnergy, they can have a global impact - explains Jakub Miler, CEO of InnoEnergy Poland Plus, organizer of the competition.
PowerUp! it creates many opportunities and opens many doors. Last year's winners experienced this - Estonian PolarSol, Greek PleioneEnergy and Hungarian GreenerGizer, as well as the native Bin-E.
Winners can count not only on financial prizes, but also on access to the prestigious Highway® by InnoEnergy accelerator, which transforms ideas and projects into market reality. It offers young entrepreneurs access to knowledge and extensive support in the field of product development and protection, market entry, team building, and access to seed funds. It also enables constant access to 150 of the largest European partners from the energy industry, facilitating quick entry into the international market.
The main final in Budapest and fifteen regional finals (the Polish final will take place in Warsaw) will be preceded by intensive workshops. Teams will have the opportunity to refine their projects and present them to specialists and investors. Such meetings provide a unique opportunity to establish business contacts, attract media attention and contribute to building a strong position of the sustainable energy market in this region of Europe.
- Our main goal is to support innovation in the energy sector. We support them at every stage of development - from the idea to delivering the finished product to customers. Thanks to our network of partners, we build connections across Europe, connecting graduates and employers, inventors and industry, researchers and enterprises - explains Jakub Miler.
The competition is developing dynamically, and new countries join it every year. To participate in the third edition of PowerUp! 2017 InnoEnergy invites start-ups and small enterprises from as many as 23 countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Estonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Latvia, Serbia, Lithuania, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania). To enter the competition, you must have a project related to sustainable energy, a prototype, create a team and complete the form on the competition website.
Registration lasts from June 19 to September 11, 2017. To join the competition, complete the form on the website www.powerup.innoenergy.com
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* In 2015 and 2016, the competition was organized under the name KICkoff by Inno Energy.
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About InnoEnergy:
InnoEnergy is driving innovation in the sustainable energy sector across Europe. This is a great challenge, but our goal is simple: to ensure Europe has access to sustainable energy in the future. The way to achieve this goal is innovation - new ideas, products and solutions that provide measurable benefits, as well as new companies and new people who can introduce them to the market. InnoEnergy supports and invests in innovation at every stage of the journey: from the university to the customer. Together with our network of partners, we build a network of contacts across Europe, connecting inventors and industries, entrepreneurs and markets, graduates and employees, researchers and companies.