Meet the nominees of the EU|BIC Excellence Award 2025: Green Transition
With 14 impressive applications submitted, narrowing it down to just 5 nominees was no easy task. Each programme brought forward bold ideas and powerful initiatives – a clear sign of the vibrant innovation ecosystem driving Europe’s green transition. Today, we’re proud to unveil the top 5 innovation and entrepreneurship support programmes leading the charge in a green transition!
Following the high standards set last year, the level of competition in 2025 was once again exceptional. Unfortunately, only five EU|BIC community members will take the stage at the 2025 EBN Congress in Barakaldo to pitch their programme – you, the audience, will choose the winner. Here are your nominees!
From today to June 18th, we will publish a post going more in-depth into each of these programmes individually. Stay tuned.
EU|BIC Associates Bilişim Vadisi & Athens Startup Business Incubator (Th.E.A) with the programme Greece-Türkiye Hackathon 2024-2025 – Türkiye & Greece
EU|BIC CAP Innove with the programme Green Steps by ID2GREEN -Belgium
EU|BIC Coventry University with the programme Clean Futures Innovation Accelerator – United Kingdom
EU|BIC Lazio Innova with the programme LAZIO ABITARE GREEN (Green Buildings and Sustainable Living) – Italy
EU|BIC Associate Valmiera Development agency with the programme Circular makerspaces for sustainable business support – Latvia
More Green Transition Incubation and Acceleration Programmes
As mentioned before, we received many very strong applications addressing the green transition, demonstrating how the community is committed to quality programmes supporting the green transition. We therefore decided to share them all with you, highlighting the aspects we found most innovative and interesting for the community. Have a look and discover them all, let’s get inspired!
University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) | Ignite Incubator
Discover the diverse mix of support activities, combined with an alumni network of 400+ businesses, that enable UWSP to most effectively help green tech companies innovate, scale, and drive sustainability forward.
Fundecyt PCTEx | Sustainability Advisory (Powered by Up2Circ)
If you are looking for a comprehensive approach to accelerate and scale up the transition of European SMEs towards a circular economy, have a look at the Up2Circ client’s journey to circularity made possible by a Sustainability Advisor, an Academy, an incentive scheme (cascade funding), and a catalogue of inspirational stories.
Central Bohemian Innovation Center | ECO scan
How to make the first step of SMEs into sustainability as simple as possible? ECO scan is an accessible and undemanding tool for SMEs to easily enter the world of sustainable business and use a quick questionnaire-based scan to map three areas of material flows – water, energy, and waste – in order to identify specific potential for financial savings and improve environmental impacts.
Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability – University of East London | Net Zero Carbon 2030
Discover the visionary and impactful approach embraced by East London to the Green Transition. The Net Zero Carbon 2030 programme is a collaborative research, innovation, incubation and acceleration programme that is creating a destination and ecosystem for net-zero carbon solutions and clean energy skills that can be scaled across East London, industries and communities globally.
BIC Euronova | Towards a Green Economy
If you are looking for inspirational stories, check out the work BIC Euronova does, incubating and accelerating startups that drive green innovation in renewable energy, circular economy, and sustainability regionally and internationally. A couple of examples:
- Ubora Solar, a renewable energy startup, grew from €400,000 in revenue in 2022 to nearly €2M in 2024.
- Aliquindoi, a circular economy startup, was referred to SkyDeck (Silicon Valley) through our partnership, securing $200K in funding and acceleration with top-tier advisors.
BIC Montpellier | Henera
When an EU|BIC teams up with corporates to promote and support clean energy innovation, the result is “Henera”, an incubator for startups in the field of decarbonised energy designed by two leading energy industrialists, SLB and EDF, and a reference incubator, the BIC of Montpellier. Henera provides high-level technological and business support for 9 months, technical expertise support by SLB and EDF, participation in learning expeditions, access to training and incubation programmes of the BIC of Montpellier, networking with partners and access to shared offices.
TECNOPOLIS Science and Technology Park | GREENSMES
Involving 9 countries of the IPA Adriatic-Ionian area, GREENSMES tackles the common territorial challenge of boosting green innovation in business and aims to strengthen innovation capacities in the target region through transnational quadruple helix synergies, by cross-collaboration in the fields of green transition and clean technologies, SMEs support and upskilling and innovation ecosystem building.
Prishtina REA | Tourism for Future – The Eco-Labels Initiative in Kosovo and Montenegro
Focus on sustainability in the tourism sector: Tourism for Future supports businesses in the tourism sector in the cross-border region between Kosovo and Montenegro to reduce environmental impact through eco-labels and internationally recognised certifications.
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