{"id":7520,"date":"2019-05-15T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/do-you-have-an-idea-that-could-save-the-world-from-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:09:23","slug":"do-you-have-an-idea-that-could-save-the-world-from-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/do-you-have-an-idea-that-could-save-the-world-from-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have an idea that could save the world from climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateLaunchpad is the world\u2019s largest green business ideas competition whose mission is to unlock the world\u2019s cleantech potential that addresses climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to any Australian resident with an innovative green idea \u2013 whether it\u2019s fully fledged or just sketched on the back of a coaster. As an early stage start-up, SME, researcher, student, public organisation, consultant or anyone else you\u2019re welcome to enter.<\/p>\n<p>Your idea can be an innovation in renewable energy, a sustainable transition in the food chain, a mind shift in urban mobility or any other way to tackle climate change. As long as it\u2019s in the cleantech domain: \u201ca scientific innovation that uses existing technology to do more with fewer resources, and has a commercial driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The competition was founded and initiated by EIT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate-kic.org\/\">Climate-KIC\u00a0 \u2013 the European Union\u2019s major climate innovation initiative<\/a> \u2013 and facilitated across Australia by <a href=\"https:\/\/climate-kic.org.au\/\">Climate-KIC Australia<\/a> in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Regional and national prizes are available, with the global grand final winner receiving \u20ac10,000. Applications open April 16 and close June 10 2019. A boot camp to help develop your business pitch will take place between 19-20 July.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more information about the regional and national rounds of competition and how to submit your idea at the <a href=\"https:\/\/climate-kic.org.au\/our-programs\/launchpad\/\">ClimateLaunchpad website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit your idea into the global ClimateLaunchpad competition for your chance to win amazing prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-7520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Jaeger","last_name":"Wieland","display_name":"Jaeger Wieland"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 02:32:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}