Call for Ideas #3 - Innovation Booster Circular Building Industry (CBI Booster)
Challenge Metadata
- Challenge Name: Call for Ideas #3 - Innovation Booster Circular Building Industry (CBI Booster)
- Date: 11/15/2022 10:00:32 AM
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Challenge Description
Please read the Submission Guidelines attached before submitting your idea.
The Circular Building Industry Innovation Booster (CBI Booster) aims to enable the transition towards a circular building industry through systemic, radical, and joint innovation.
Who do we address?
Are you a Swiss company (start-up, SME, or corporate), non-profit (public institution, NGO, etc.), or a research group looking to implement an idea in practice, or test its viability, desirability, and/or feasibility? A team needs to have at least one implementation partner and one research partner.
What are we looking for?
Do you want to develop, test, and refine your idea for a product, service, process, or business model relating to circularity in the building industry?
We are looking for project ideas that strengthen the circular economy within the Swiss building industry. If your idea fulfills the following criteria, then you are in the right place:
- You have an idea for a new product, service, process, or business model
- Through circularity, your idea has a positive impact on the 3Ps:
- Planet (e.g., reducing GHG, raw material extraction and toxicity, etc.)
- Prosperity (e.g., creating employment, generating innovation, etc.)
- People (e.g., improving health, well-being, and living conditions of employees, communities, customers etc.)
- You are familiar with the value chain and account for its particularities. Your idea involves stakeholders across the value chain.
- You are a Swiss start-up, SME, large company, a non-for-profit, or a research team looking with partners to implement an idea in practice
- You have the intention of implementing the project in Switzerland and/or beyond after the booster
- You can attract 10% of the total funding amount in third-party funding (= 2'000 CHF).
What's in it for you?
- Direct cash contribution of 20,000 CHF to develop ideas, concepts, and prototypes (the implementation partner shall add a financial contribution equivalent to 10% of the funding requested from the booster to confirm commitment). The funds can be used flexibly (e.g., pay salaries, buy equipment and material, etc.).
- Methodological and technical support from topic experts
- A Swiss-wide network of companies, researchers, and public institutions
- Networking and targeted events (e.g., roundtables, workshops, etc.)
What to submit?
When submitting your project idea, include a description of your idea and address the following questions:
- What problem would you like to solve?
- Who will benefit from your solution and how?
- Who are the existing persons/companies in your team and what is their role?
- How does your challenge have a positive impact on the planet (e.g., material reduction, CO2 emission reduction)?
- Has your idea been tested before?
- What are you planning on working on throughout the booster (e.g., developing the business model, building an initial prototype, material for prototyping, etc.)? What will you deliver at the end of the booster?
- What are you expecting from the booster (e.g., looking for specific partners, expert support, etc.)?
- How will you attract the 3rd party funding (10% of the total funding amount)?
Please reserve the pitch&enrich workshop on 13 April '23 in Rotkreuz in your agenda. This design thinking workshop is mandatory in order to be eligible for funding. Teams who meet the minimum criteria will be notified on the 5th of April and invited to the workshop.
Further details on participation can be found on the website www.cbi-booster.ch.
If you have any questions, contact info@cbi-booster.ch.
If you wish to submit to your project in French, you can do so through the platform, or you can request a French application form by writing to info@cbi-booster.ch