All Awards & Funding

Looking for hard money lenders in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina or Texas? Coastal Capital Lending offers quick loans for investors. We offer hard money loans, fix and flip loans, and commercial property loans. Our flexible terms can help you close Read more [...]

The UN Food Systems Summit competition ‘Best Small Business: Good Food for All’ will identify the best small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the world transforming food systems for a better tomorrow. The competition will uncover not only the small Read more [...]

The UK Manufacturing Symbiosis NetworkPLus (UKMSN+) was set up to address the circular economy priority area in the EPSRC Manufacturing the Future programme.   For this second round, £420k has been allocated to fund Sectorial-Bridging Feasibility Studies no longer than Read more [...]

The Circular Design Challenge is a platform for young fashion/accessory designers and entrepreneurs to showcase and win a prize for their innovative ideas and collections made by using materials from diverse waste sources including plastic. Launched in collaboration with Fashion Read more [...]

Launched by WeDesign in collaboration with the Foundation and the UN, Future Fashion Now is a global, sustainable design competition that enables entrants to rethink how the fashion industry works. Inspired by Make Fashion Circular and the UN’s Sustainable Development Read more [...]

Project Together, soulbottles and the Röchling Foundation have created the soulincubator, a support program which supports young start-up founders who want to create and shape a future with less plastic waste! We support initiatives that have solutions to reduce, recycle Read more [...]

UNLEASH is a global innovation lab, which gathers 1,000 talents annually to collaborate on solutions to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNLEASH 2019 will be held in Shenzhen, China from November 6-13.   Transportation, accommodation and materials are Read more [...]

The Global Good Awards is an all-inclusive awards programme open to all sectors and all sizes of business, charity, public sector and social enterprise. We recognise purpose-driven organisations for doing ‘global good’ in their communities, for their people, for the Read more [...]

The Liveability Challenge is a global platform that hunts for and accelerates the launch of innovative and ground-breaking solutions to challenges that cities in the tropics face in the 21st Century. With 12 years left before humanity exhausts the world’s Read more [...]

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition and Closed Loop Partners have teamed up to challenge the best and brightest entrepreneurs to uncover solutions to one of the most important challenges in sustainable packaging through our joint FlexPack Recovery Challenge.   The Problem: Read more [...]

Accelerate the transition to a circular Switzerland Are you passionate about transforming Zurich into a more sustainable city? The Circular Economy (CE) Incubator enables individuals and startups to prototype and develop innovative solutions contributing to accelerate the transition towards Circular Read more [...]

Circular Economy Acceleration Program UP TO €60K per SME Mentoring, networking and designer/business consultancy support C-VoUCHER, the project funded under Horizon 2020 EU Programme aims at creating circular value link-chains in traditional industries. Who can apply? We are looking for companies willing to Read more [...]

The Circulars, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and the Forum of Young Global Leaders, is the world’s premier circular economy awards program. The awards are open to individuals and organizations from commerce and civil society in seven distinct Read more [...]

RILA and the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at McGill University are excited to tackle the pressing issues surrounding retail and the Grand Challenges facing our societies through an innovative retail case competition.   The (R)Tech Global Retail Challenge helps expose Read more [...]

Global Call for Innovators working with ‘Customer Engagement and New Business Models’ – LAUNCH Innovation Challenge 2018 is open   Imagine a world where all products are services. Instead of buying new expensive gear for every adventure – gear you Read more [...]

The non-for-profit media organisation, tve, would like to invite business leaders engaged in sustainability in the Circular Economy Club to participate in tve’s annual Global Sustainability Film Awards. The Awards recognise businesses who are pioneering new solutions to sustainability challenges, Read more [...]

VIENNA—The Global Chemical Leasing Award ceremony will showcase the world’s best practices, innovative solutions and research related to the chemical leasing business model. The event, scheduled for Nov. 6 in Vienna, is a valuable opportunity for companies, researchers, academics and creative individuals Read more [...]

Veolia and EIT RawMaterials drive their third startup campaign for startups in the field of circular economy. APPLY HERE! Our ambition is to accelerate the time to market of the innovative concepts through the support of EIT RawMaterials and Veolia Read more [...]

We are delighted to announce that the Blue Patch Sustainable Business Awards 2018 are now open. SMEs across the British Isles are invited to come forward and nominate themselves for one or more of the following categories: New Business Award:  For new Read more [...]

We are investing £18 million as grant funding to small and medium sized enterprises who are helping to create a more circular economy. The Circular Economy Investment Fund is a funding opportunity for businesses and organisations in Scotland working in all Read more [...]

New focus: What could a truly circular events space look like? We’ve kept the challenge fairly broad to include and encourage as many ideas as possible so far, and your contributions did not disappoint! We have also realised, however, that a Read more [...]

The Circular Economy Award of the Vibes Awards (Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland)recognises businesses that can demonstrate a circular approach to material use and business function.   Who can apply?: All categories with the exception of the Green Read more [...]

Green Industries SA provides funding for unlocking the potential of the circular economy, developing infrastructure to process and create new products from wastes, seed funding for new technologies, the commercialisation of research in South Australia and support for innovative start-up Read more [...]

Five leading businesses are the first brands and retailers to sign up to the European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP), a Europe-wide sustainable clothing plan which launched in May 2016. The first ECAP participants are brands and retailers Bobo Choses, OVS, Read more [...]

The European Commission has approved an investment package of €222.7m from the EU budget to support Europe’s transition to a circular economy. The EU funding will spur additional investments leading to a total of €398.6m to be invested into 144 new Read more [...]

Zero Waste Scotland is investing European Regional Development Funds to help small and medium businesses (SMEs) be resource efficient and create a more circular economy. The fund aims to accelerate the development of business innovation, including support for developing new technologies and the infrastructure Read more [...]

The circular economy is still a relatively new concept in the US market, but there are definite signs of business, large and small, buying into the idea and attempting to understand what it could mean for their models. A circular Read more [...]

The Circular Economy for SMEs (CESME) project is a Europe-wide initiative created by the Business Development Centre in Denmark. It was established to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to future-proof their business in a green and more sustainable Read more [...]

The C&A Foundation is looking for innovative ways to bridge the gap in the implementation of circular business models in companies at all levels of the apparel value chain. Their request for proposals closes February 18, 2018 and there is up to 300,000€ per proposal available. The Challenge  Read more [...]

EIT RawMaterials aims to significantly enhance innovation rates in the raw materials sector through financial support as well as via network and collaboration activities. Each year they have an annual call for funding for the following topics: Upscaling projects: Developing/testing/demonstrating innovative technologies and products Read more [...]

Private Finance for Energy Efficiency (PF4EE) instrument is a joint agreement between the EIB and the European Commission which aims to address the limited access to adequate and affordable commercial financing for energy efficiency investments. The instrument targets projects which support Read more [...]

Britain’s largest independent Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) recycling and reuse company, Environcom, has won a prestigious business award in recognition of achieving the most comprehensive circular economic business model. In a modern world many items are deemed by Read more [...]

The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge, initiated by non-profit H&M Foundation in 2015. By catalyzing early innovations that can accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, the aim is to protect the planet and Read more [...]

Start-ups, students, research groups and career scientists from across the world are welcome to exploit the knowledge of chemistry and solve several real-life chemistry-related challenges.   AkzoNobel launches global chemicals start-up challenge: “Imagine Chemistry“ Imagine Chemistry, launched in conjunction with KPMG, Read more [...]

In 2013, the Young Global Leaders (YGL) Circular Economy Taskforce from the World Economic Forum came together to build universal awareness amongst business leaders that the circular economy represents a wealth of business opportunities which can reduce costs, increase profits and Read more [...]

The Circulars award program, the world’s premier circular economy award program recognizing individuals and organizations making the circular economy a reality, is open for the 2018 entries until 30th Sep 2017. In the two years The Circulars has been running, the program has Read more [...]

To create a profitable company in the green economy, it needs more than just a good idea. Besides a lot of expertise and hard work, the support of partners during the foundation process is essential. This is where Green Alley Read more [...]

The Global Change Award is an annual innovation circular fashion challenge – aiming to close the loop for fashion. They are looking for disruptive early stage ideas that add circularity throughout the whole value chain of the fashion industry – changing the way garments Read more [...]

The Circular Design Challenge, led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and hosted by OpenIDEO, is calling upon a global community to submit ideas, innovations, and new technologies with the potential to transform the plastics economy.   As part of the New Plastics Economy Innovation Read more [...]

Tarapacá Circular® is an idea competition run by the Center for Innovation and Circular Economy (CIEC) and Tarapacá Labs. The organisations are launching the first call for open circular innovation focused on individuals with an idea or project that falls into the circular economy framework Read more [...]