The Call for Expressions of Interest Greentech Innovation
What is the Call for Expressions of Interest Greentech Innovation ?
The Greentech Innovation Call for Expressions of Interest is a call for applications to the Greentech Innovation programme, which comes with a range of advantages.
The initiative aims to select innovative start-ups and SMEs that work on ambitious, innovative and sustainable technologies, services, methodologies or industrial solutions.
The Call for Expressions of Interest is open to French and European companies.
The advantages of our programme
In addition to being awarded the Greentech Innovation label, the winners benefit from comprehensive support based on 4 major boosters: visibility, sales and networks, digital, and public procurement.
When to apply ?
The Call of Expression of Interest 2024/2025 is open from 9 December 2024 and will close on 13 January 2025.
Selection interviews will be held in April-May each year.
How to apply
You will need to submit your application on the ‘Démarches Simplifiées’ platform, where you will be asked to provide the required information and documents, in particular:
- National business register number
- Your contact details so that we can get in touch with you
- A brief description of your project (be sure to fill in this section, as we may use it for communication purposes if you are awarded the label).
- Supporting documents (application form, MVP form, business plan, logo, additional documents)
You can apply until January 13 on the following link : https://www.demarches-simplifiees.fr/commencer/call-for-expressions-of-interest-greentech-innovation-eu-2024-2025
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us via greentechinnovation@developpement-durable.gouv.fr
The selection process
Once your application has been submitted, it will be examined by a committee of experts for compliance with the requirements of the Call of Expression of Interest Greentech Innovation. If the project does comply, you will be invited to an online interview with a panel composed of experts from the Ministry and external partners.
The interview will take the following format: 10-minute presentation, 10-minute question and answer session.
This interview will be an opportunity to put forth your project and its capacity to have the desired impact on public policies for the ecological transition.
To ensure the best possible support for laureates of the programme, only a limited number of candidates can be selected
The Call of Expression of Interest requirements
290 start-ups and SMEs have been awarded the Greentech Innovation label since 2016.
Their solutions cover 12 areas of ecological transition.
Support package for start-ups and SMEs labelled “Greentech Innovation”
Visibility booster
Sales and network booster
Digital booster
Public Procurement
The Greentech Innovation Winners
Ecolab is the Commissariat Général au Développement Durable’s innovation laboratory in service of the ecological transition. It is in charge of coordinating and supporting the “Greentech” ecosystem. In particular, it leads the following initiatives thru the so-called « Greentech Innovation » initiative
- Identifying and promoting innovations from start-ups and SMEs across the entire spectrum of the ecological transition
- For the past three years, Ecolab has been offering insight into the challenges for SMEs to access public procurement markets, particularly at the local level. This presents major advantages for the internationalization of startups and SMEs, as the rules on public procurement are the same for the entire European internal market.
In November 2023 Ecolab received European recognition for its support in accessing public procurement markets in France. The innovation lab won the European Commission’s “European Entrepreneurship Promotion Award “ (EEPA) in the category “Supporting the Sustainable Transition”. Each year, the EEPA rewards the best policies and practices in the field of entrepreneurship and business support in Europe.
The jury particularly appreciated the highly innovative nature of Ecolab’s work, as well as its potential replicability, concerning the following initiatives : (i) actions to reference innovative and sustainable companies in France (Greentech Innovation label), (ii) raising awareness of the possibilities in public procurement markets, (iii) organizing events to bring together public decision makers and Greentech companies (“Rencontres des Décideurs Greentech”), (iv) providing local office space for companies, with the objective of stimulating local public procurement of innovation (the Greentech Living-Lab), (v) piloting the Call for Projects “Frugal AI demonstrator in territories for the ecological transition” aimed at local authorities, project developers, etc.
The Greentech Innovation initiative supports innovative start-ups and SMEs that innovate for the ecological transition.