Startup Booster
Major companies announce the second cycle of the annual GreenTech Startup — Booster program, a competitive selection of technology startups in the environment protection field
Purpose of the contest
Submit an application
Ready
solutions
solutions
Promising
solutions
solutions
Student
teams
teams
Juniors
why participate
Conditions of participation
Technological focus
Low-carbon economy
– reducing a company's carbon footprintLow-carbon economy
- Hydrogen technologies, methods of production, delivery and use
- Energy storage technologies and flexible grid management
- Renewable energy, including in autonomous power systems
- Use of low-grade energy sources
- Biofuel
- Capture and use of methane (including gas-to-liquids technologies) and ammonia
- Utilization and monetization of associated petroleum gas
- Capture and storage of greenhouse gases (including CO2)
- Recycling of greenhouse gases (including CO2)
- Reducing the carbon intensity of production processes
- Energy efficient core and auxiliary processes
- Environmentally friendly transport
- Increasing the full use of conventional fuels
- Replacing fossil fuels and reducing agents in production
- Biodegradable and bio-based polymers
- Green financing tools
Circular economy
– re-use of resources and waste recyclingCircular economy
- Recycling of metallurgical waste
- Separation of rare earth metals in large-tonnage waste
- Re-use and recycling of oil production, oil refining, petrochemical and chemical waste
- Recycling and re-use of polymers (including chemical treatment)
- Recycling and re-use of mining waste
- New materials (including polymers), with a high degree of recyclability
- Deeper processing of raw materials, use of tailings
- Collection, sorting and processing of household waste
- Processing of inorganic waste (ash, slag, waste from the lime regeneration cycle, marble chips)
- New products and materials from core products and by-products of pulp and paper mills
Digital
monitoring
– environment assessmentmonitoring
Digital monitoring
- Environmental impact monitoring, accounting and forecasting
- Greenhouse gas emission monitoring, accounting and forecasting
- Biodiversity impact monitoring, accounting and forecasting
Clean
planet
– reducing atmospheric emissions, discharges into bodies of water, industrial pollution of subsoil and soil, mitigating damage from environmental impactplanet
Clean planet
- Reducing pollutant emissions into the air
- Cleaning atmospheric emissions of pollutants
- Urban environment improvement technologies
- Ventilation and better air quality in buildings
- Water treatment (including cleaning from organics and metals), water preparation, water disposal
- Utilization of sludge from treatment facilities
- Environmental rehabilitation of water bodies
- Digitalization of water supply processes
- Lower generation of industrial waste
- Prevention of and response to oil and oil product spills
- Reclamation of waste disposal facilities
- Landscaping and planting
- Bio-ecology (nature based solutions)
- Conservation and restoration of biodiversity and forest resources
- Gas treatment (including removal of sulfur-containing elements)
- Utilization of acidic and alkaline effluents (including soda-sulphate mixtures) to produce high-demand products
- Collection, sorting, processing and recycling of logging waste
Safe
environment
–human safety at production sitesenvironment
Safe environment
- Safe working conditions
- Personal protective and monitoring equipment
- Digital technologies for health and safety
- Monitoring the integrity of infrastructure
- Safety of office employees and certain professions
- Production safety during the pandemic (including anti-COVID solutions)
- Non-combustible polymer materials and structures
- Development of employee competency in the field of health and safety
- Programs to motivate employees to create a safe environment
Extreme
climate
ecology
– solving urgent environmental problems in the Far Northclimate
ecology
Extreme climate ecology
- Preventing the generation of gas hydrates in production, treatment and pipeline transportation systems without using methanol
- Storage of liquefied petroleum gases in permafrost soils
- Water purification and treatment in extreme climatic conditions (including permafrost waters, etc.)
- Safe working conditions in an extreme climate
- Monitoring of environmental impact and greenhouse gas emission, accounting and forecasting in an extreme climate
- Energy-efficient core and auxiliary processes in an extreme climate
Program stages
The Skolkovo Foundation is the largest innovation center in Russia, which has been focused on developing technology startups for 10 years. More than 100 large industrial companies, together with the Skolkovo Foundation, are engaged in the search for and implementation of innovative technologies. An in-house team of 100+ startup professionals and an expert/mentoring panel of 700+ tech, science and entrepreneurship professionals.