UNIDO Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP)’s Post

📣 #CleantechDays 2024 COUNTDOWN: 3️⃣ Weeks left! On 3 June, we will kick off the second edition of the Cleantech Days in Vienna, 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 under the joint motto: 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 – 𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧. This joint event is co-organized by UNIDO's Sustainable and Just Energy Transitions Unit and the Regional Bureau for Europe and Central Asia. It will be an exciting week of sessions and side events ✅ showcasing impactful #cleantech and #climate solutions; ✅ fostering #networking and #partnerships building between public and private sector stakeholders; ✅ featuring thematic discussions around #innovation, industrial policies, #entrepreneurship ecosystems, the role of the private sector in the #2030Agenda and #investment de-risking. 🏆 We will also have a pitching competition for #GCIP-invited national accelerators finalists, to choose the global GCIP winners! 🔜 Stay tuned to see the full event agenda, get to know participating #innovators and learn more about our event partners this year! 🔎 Visit the event page for more information: https://lnkd.in/dwU637hg Global Environment Facility | Green Climate Fund | UNIDO Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) | Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment (FLCTD) | Vienna Business Agency | WSA | 1MillionStartups | Impact Hub Vienna | The Network for Global Innovation | Cleantech Group | International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum (IVECF) | Rana Ghoneim | Solomiya Omelyan | Olga Rataj

Happy #WorldBookDay! What's a better way of celebrating this day than sharing recommendations for our favourite books‧₊˚📚✩ Here are the top 10 books picked by the GCIP team for #cleantech #innovators & #changemakers:   📘 "The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems" - by Paulo Savaget, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford professor and #GCIP Global Advisory Board member. He draws examples from small organizations dedicated to social action that have proved themselves adept at achieving massive wins with minimal resources.   📗 "Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action" - by Simon Sinek. Learn how great leaders and organizations inspire action and create a lasting impact.   📙 "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future" - by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters. Discover questions one must ask and answer to succeed in doing new things.   📕 "The clean energy transition: policies and politics for a zero-carbon world" - by Daniel J. Fiorino. A comprehensive introduction to the politics and policies of a #cleanenergy transition.   📒 "Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things" - by Michael Braungart, William McDonough. The book calls for a radical change in industry: a switch from a 'cradle-to-grave' pattern to a 'cradle-to-cradle' pattern.   📘 "Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers" - by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur Handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's #enterprises.   📗 "The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity" - by Ron Pernick, Clint Wilder. 2007 book by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, who have argued that commercializing #cleantechnologies is a profitable enterprise that is moving steadily into mainstream business.   📙 "The Energy Future of Africa: A Journey Through Africa's Green Revolution And How It Can Change The World" - by Mugwe Manga. The inside story on how the continent can transform itself, and the world, by unlocking its tremendous #renewableenergy capital.   📕 "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" - by Kate Raworth. Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways mainstream economics has led us astray and offers an alternative roadmap that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet.   📒 "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by nature" - by Janine Benyus. The book explores how scientists adapt nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st-century problems.   We hope these would be great additions to your library! Do you have more suggestions? Share them in comments 💬 By the way, UNIDO's GCIP also develops frameworks and guidebooks on how to run cleantech #accelerators & strengthen cleantech innovation & #entrepreneurship ecosystems. Check more information here: https://www.unido.org/GCIP

📢 ATTENTION, #cleantech #innovators based in Moldova! The applications for the 2024 cycle of the #GCIP Accelerator in Moldova are ongoing ▶️ 👉 DEADLINE: 31 May 2024 🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d8Cn43rS Agency for Energy Efficiency of the Republic of Moldova | National Center for Sustainable Energy | UNIDO | Global Environment Facility | Tekwill | Diana Grozav | Ion MUNTEAN

📢 Exciting opportunity by SOSV for #ClimateTech #entrepreneurs. Don't miss a chance to participate, #GCIP #innovators! #matchmaking #investment #climateinvestment

📢 The 2024 #GCIP #CleantechAccelerator CALL FOR APPLICATIONS is underway! As of TODAY, applications are open for #cleantech #innovators based in #Kazakhstan, #Moldova, #Nigeria, #Senegal, #SouthAfrica and #Turkiye 🚀 ✅️ Use this link to access the application portal: https://lnkd.in/d8Cn43rS 💡Why should you be interested in applying for the GCIP Accelerator? No one can describe its benefits better than the GCIP alumni community. Let's hear from Zahari Dolomanji, founder and CEO of EVECO Construction and winner of the #EnergyEfficiency category from the #GCIPMoldova 2022 cohort. 💬 ”GCIP Accelerator is about experience, interaction and difficult questions. You are not doing this for the Programme or for the mentors, but for yourself. I frequently asked myself the question - “What do I really want to do?” - and each new answer opened up new frontiers. We sometimes think too narrowly and the Accelerator helped me to get away from the stereotypical thinking.” ❓️ Have any questions? Write us at gcip@unido.org