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

GreenTech is the largest annual program in Russia to search for and support tech startups aimed at improving the environment, reducing adverse environmental impact, and boosting sustainable development. The projects are found and selected by experts of the Skolkovo Foundation as per the requests for technology from major industrial companies in Russia and Europe. The Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC) is a co-organizer of the program in 2021. It is supported by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

Purpose of the contest
Find the best innovative solutions in the field of environmental protection and successfully integrate them into the production cycle of the program's partner companies
Applications are accepted until September 30
Submit an application
Ready
solutions
Promising
solutions
Student
teams
Juniors

We invite
to participate

  • Startups
  • Companies developing new technologies
  • Manufacturers of innovative equipment
  • Scientific teams

why participate

  • Quick access to a large corporate customer
  • Support from the industry experts of the Skolkovo Foundation
  • Direct contact with a customer for a product or solution
  • Access to a company's resources to test and refine your product
  • Partner relations the ability to build partner relations
  • The best projects will launch a pilot together with the program partners

Conditions of participation

  • Compliance of the project with the technological focus
  • • The development of the technology/product must be at a level ranging from an idea or early stage to the level of a ready solution Ready products and promising solutions are considered in different tracks
  • Established team
  • Preference for applicants that represent an existing legal entity

Technological focus

Low-carbon economy
– reducing a company's carbon footprint
Low-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 recycling
Circular 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 assessment
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 impact
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 sites
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 North
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

01
Analysis
until July 29
02
Search for and collection of projects
until September 30
03
Remote review of projects
until October 23
04
In-person diagnostics, preparation and selection of projects
until December 15
05
Support for implementation at specific facilities
until March 30

partners

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.

General partner
Strategic partners
Official partners
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