Eco-innovation

The Environment and Energy Technology Innovation Platform (MIP) aims to stimulate and realise cleantech innovations by bringing together and supporting companies, governments, knowledge institutions, and civil society organisations - the 'quadruple helix'. MIP provides a funding programme for demand...

Administered by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl) and funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Seed Capital scheme provides capital for investment funds backing innovative entrepreneurs in the technology and creative sectors. The scheme effectively brings the...

The Innovation Deals (IDs) instrument, set up by the European Commission, help innovators facing regulatory obstacles by setting up agreements with stakeholders and public authorities. IDs are a voluntary cooperation between the EU, innovators, and national, regional and local authorities aimed at...

SUMBOX is a cardboard box that is recycled into paper and is capable of replacing EPS plastic in the cold chain of fresh products. SUMBOX boxes are already being commercialized and used in the Spanish market. The project, co-financed by the Waste Agency of Catalonia, has demonstrated the technical...

The DIGIBIO project, "Digitalisation of biomass energy revalorisation processes with high added value", aims to develop a digital system capable of capturing information and analysing the efficiency of biomass revalorisation processes aimed at sustainable obtaining bioproducts and/or bioenergy. This...

The Foodservice Cluster and the Packaging Cluster, with the support of the eco-innovation study inèdit, are launching Circular Pack a collaborative initiative to create a decalogue of circularity for food packaging. This decalogue aims to help companies in the agri-food and packaging value chain to...

5-6 February 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria This 21th edition will examine eco-innovative solutions for improving air quality. It will bring together companies and public authorities that have already succeeded in developing and deploying effective new technologies, or innovative business and governance...

27 -28 October, Tallin, Estonia The transition to a new, circular and sustainable way of doing business needs to happen on the ground. Eco-innovative entrepreneurs know that environmental protection makes business sense and understand how being innovative today will help them grow sustainably in the...

Following the success of the WE@EU project which comes to a close in June 2016, the project partners invite you to join in celebrating the achievements of the project at their final event ‘International cooperation and regional clusters: innovation in water efficiency’ on Wednesday 18th May 2016 at...

Mr Daniel Calleja, Director-General of the Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission will lead a Circular Economy Mission to Santiago de Chile on 25-26 April 2016 back-to-back with the XIV World Mining Exhibition and Congress for Latin America (www.expomin.cl). More...