Cleantech Challenge Netherlands

on. The Cleantech Challenge provides entrepreneurial students first and foremost with an incredible opportunity to test the strength and viability of their start‐up concept on both a local and international platform. The new ventures are based on real technological opportunities and require the best of both worlds in students. In order to create a powerful team the competition encourages students with technical and business backgrounds to integrate their experience and expertise. As teams ascend through the competitions rounds they will receive guidance from professionals of top companies and consultants to perfect their start‐up concept and improve the skills necessary to market innovative ideas. For the students this guidance can provide them with the edge they need to succeed as aspiring entrepreneurs. Every start‐up needs funding and the prize money can provide students with some of the means to further the development of their business venture on the market. The world is in need of a technical revolution to solve many problems and often the solutions come from young minds. But clean and green innovations require more than just a great technical innovation in order to be transformed into a successful new venture. This competition provides the platform for those young minds to grow and shape their ideas and give them the best fighting chance to succeed.