The competition calls on creative, innovative thinkers from around the world to submit business plans for sustainable products and services. Entries should directly reduce CO2 emissions, score highly on design, user-friendliness and quality, and ready to be in the market in two years.
The doors to this international annual competition for social entrepreneurs with CO2 reducing business plans are now open for the sixth time. From May 1st until July 31st, sustainable entrepreneurs can enter their business plans for sustainable, creative and innovative products and services here. The best business plan will win 500,000 EUR, and an additional 200,000 EUR is available for one or two other promising plans.
Task:
Questions in the entry form vary from "Describe your product or service in a 100 words", to a complete SWOT analysis. We also encourage participating entrepreneurs to create and record an elevator pitch, a business pitch in 90 seconds. This is a very handy tool to convince the preliminary jury of your entrepreneurial and social spirit, and shouldn't present a problem for serious entrepreneurs. Upload the pitch to YouTube or Vimeo and post the URL in your entry form.
Present your ideas before an international jury of experts and an audience of invited guests on 17 September at the multimedia conference PICNIC ’12 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
For the first time in the history of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, three winners will go on to New York, where the jury will announce the winner of the 500,000 EUR grand prize on September 23.
This announcement will take place at a dinner hosted by the United Postcode Lotteries in conjunction with the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.
How to Apply:
Entrants are asked to submit detailed business plans.
An expert preliminary jury will assess the viability of the entries and select five to eight finalists after 31 July.
