Deadline: 7-Jul-23

Plastic Omnium’s Innovation Challenge the Future of Energy for Mobility in partnership with SoScience is officially open for applications to accelerate innovation leveraging collective intelligence, through an open innovation approach.

The Innovation Challenge is open to Plastic Omnium’s employees as well as experts, entrepreneurs, engineers, academics, researchers, public sectors, cities to shape the future of energy for mobility.

Aims

• The aim is to develop innovative energy solutions for mobility that are environmentally friendly, safe, sustainable throughout their entire lifecycle, and adaptable to meet the needs of all users worldwide.
• To create multi-actor collaborations around projects to explore sustainable research and innovation solutions with a positive impact.

Benefits

• For all applicants selected for the meet-up day event:
  • Get access to an international network of innovators and find new partners;
  • Include social and environmental impact in your projects;
  • Find new applications to your projects;
  • Disseminate your results;
  • Accelerate your projects.
• 3 collaborative projects will be awarded and will get access to:
  • 6 months coaching from SoScience;
  • A financial contribution from Plastic Omnium;
  • Your free project page on SoScience platform.

Why apply?

• You are a start-up or a social entrepreneur:
  • Meet new industrial partners
  • Accelerate your Research & Development projects
  • Grow your development through new impactful collaborations
  • Get a project funded
• You are an academic researcher:
  • Valorize your academic projects and accelerate their development with industrial partnerships
  • Brainstorm with other experts
  • Find new impactful applications to your academic projects
  • Disseminate the results of your projects
  • Benefit from a free coaching to find new funding opportunities
  • Meet civil society actors who need your expertise
  • Find a field of experiment for your projects
  • Get a project funded
• You are an industrial company:
  • Expand your ecosystem of innovation partners
  • Foster your innovation projects
  • Access to new strategic markets
  • Launch innovation with social and environmental impact
  • Promote intrapreneurship
  • Avoid most of the paperwork and build valuable collaborations with academic researchers
  • Get a project funded
• You are a nonprofit organization:
  • Increase your visibility among industrial and research players
  • Get access to innovative technologies adapted to local needs
  • Benefit from new expertise to improve your impact
  • Get a project funded
• You are a public actor:
  • Discover innovative technologies and research projects adapted to the realities of your needs
  • Bring your point of view on research issues
  • Run fast experiments and gather data to support your public policies
  • Have a premium access to innovative solutions and become a field of experiment
• You are an expert:
  • Contribute to innovative collaborative projects
  • Bring a real impact on social and environmental issues
  • Meet other experts and share your visions
  • Find new partners

Eligibility Criteria

• They are looking for experts of all kinds:
• Companies, Academic researchers, Start-ups, Social Entrepreneurs, Non Profit Organizations and Associations, Public Organizations, Cities, Artists…
  • start-up / an entrepreneur: bring an innovative solution or approach to this problematic;
  • working for an industrial company: find new potential partners to accelerate the research & innovation projects or learn from them;
  • researcher (every kind of science): working on something that can help solve the problem develop research partnerships with other actors;
  • an association / an NGO: set up a local program with other partners;
  • public policy actor: experiment with a project locally or co-design new tools;
  • provide services (funding, acceleration of innovation): boost promising projects, help your community identify new development opportunities;
  • an artist or art collective: like to propose new ideas and means to raise awareness about the problematic.

Timeline

• Phase #1
  • Sourcing & Selection
  • Call for applications and international targeted sourcing
    • 1st wave – Program open to application – April 5 to May 31
    • Webinar on May 16th
    • Selection of up to 30 candidates on June 7
    • 2nd wave – Open for missing profiles – from June 8 to July 7
    • Selection of up to 10 additional candidates on July 19
• Phase #2
  • Projects Structuration
  • Meet 50 experts on September 19, share and network, imagine new multi-actors projects to answer the program challenge
    • Meet-up day in Paris on September 19 with 50 experts
    • Structuration of proposals – September 19 – October 6
    • Selection of 8 finalists – October 11
    • Pitch and award ceremony – November 14
• Phase #3
  • 6 Months Support (Minimum)
  • Coaching by SoScience & fundings by PlasticOmnium
    • Align stakeholders’ vision
    • Integrate Social & Environmental Impact
    • Fundings up to 150 000€

For more information, visit Plastic Omnium.