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Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives

February - March 2013

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This Month on Skipso

20 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to Skipsos 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
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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 Deadline: 7th February 2013
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 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 8th February 2013
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

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: $ 155,000 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 10th February 2013
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 Energys national business plan competition for clean energy.

Welsh Government
Enterprise Zone Business Rate Scheme

Grant Type: Other Amount: 20,000,000 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 11th February 2013
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 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 11th February 2013
http://business.wales.gov.uk/news-events/news/wales-renewable-energyproducers-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 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 15th February 2013
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

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: $ 10,000 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 18th February 2013
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

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: $ 1,300,000 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 18th February 2013
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 worlds 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 Deadline: 18th February 2013
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

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: 10,000,000 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 25th February 2013
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-inspiredinnovation3.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 Deadline: 27th February 2013
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

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: $ 300,000 Geographic Focus: USA Deadline: 28th February 2013
http://cep.mit.edu/

The MIT Clean Energy Prizes 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 worlds energy challenge through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Competition-Collider Activity Center - Walltopia

International Architectural Competition-Collider Activity Center

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: 25,000 Geographic Focus: Bulgaria Deadline: 28th February 2013
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 Energys (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 Energys (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.

Technology Strategy Board

Digital & Creative Clyde Launchpad Competition

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: 900,000 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 6th March 2013
http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/digital-and-creative-clydelaunchpad.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 Geographic Focus: UK 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 Strategy Board

Technology challenge in low carbon vehicles

Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: 16,500,000 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 27th March2013

http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/technology-challenge-in-lowcarbon-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
Grant Type: Research & Development Amount: 3,000,000 Geographic Focus: UK Deadline: 27th March 2013
https://www.gov.uk/innovation-funding-for-low-carbon-technologiesopportunities-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

Grant Type: Research & Development 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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