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8th - 10th April 2025 - Ravenna - Italy GET YOUR TICKET!

CALL4IDEAS PITCH DEMOLITION

OMC Med Energy 2025 in alliance with

Joule, Eni School of entrepreneurship, FEEM and Accenture

are organizing

“Call4Ideas – Energy and Digital Transition”

 

Ravenna, 8th April 2025 at 14.30

 

CALL DESCRIPTION

A competition involving very early-stage companies, academy spinoffs, low TRL startup invited to present their ideas. The goal is to scout new ideas in the energy transition area and to support early stage startups and researcher in test and evolve their solution.

Prework will be carried out remotely. Revised pitches integrating the jury feedback will be presented in person at OMC Med Energy 2025 in Ravenna on 8th April 2025 in front of Corporates and the main innovation ecosystem players.

 

CALL TIMELINE

Call opens 30th September 2024                                                    

Call closes 29th November 2024

Selection Notification by 20th December 2024

 

ADMISSION AND SELECTION CRITERIA

The call is dedicated to very early stage startups/researchers working on Energy and Digital Transition solutions and technologies, with particular regards to the following areas:

CARBON CAPTURE, UTILIZATION & STORAGE; NEW ENERGY SOURCES & STORAGE; NEW ENERGY VECTORS; BIO-ENERGY; CIRCULAR ECONOMY; SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY; AGRITECH; WATER & WASTE MANAGEMENT    

No geographical restriction applies.

Applications selection will be done by the Selection Committee based on:

  • Team experience and skills
  • Proposed solution and context description (clarity and scientific/technical soundness)
  • Market potential
  • Quality of the attached ABSTRACT and PITCH

The judgement is final and not appealable.

Applications must be submitted in English, with all the mandatory sections filled in:

1) Consent to data processing form (download the file)

2) Application form including the abstract 

3) Pitch Presentation

Deadline for submitting applications is 29th November 2024.

Applicants must not submit confidential material.

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Only the evaluators have access to the applications. They are not responsible for the possible protection of intellectual property or other rights of participants. The Organisers of the initiative are not responsible for any failure, delay or problems with the receipt of applications. The Organisers reserve the right to change dates or rules of the competition at any time. The Organisers will make every effort to communicate any changes in good time on the initiative website and by e-mail to applicants or selected startups.

 

For further information on the Call4Ideas and on the OMC Med Energy 2025 event please refer to:

Ph. 0039 0544219418

Email: call4ideas@omc.it 

 

CALL4IDEAS APPLICATION FORM



1. COMPANY PROFILE
Address/legal entity address, including country, (For Business/Research Project) country and town of the future establishment
if applicable; if not incorporated, you can report the planned period for incorporation
please report general and specific area of activity/application
please provide a short overview of the company/project, your product/service, mission, objectives, what the company does, why it should be interesting, etc. A quick one-liner summary outlining your vision/product and the mission of your company can be used as starting sentence - Max 8 lines
please describe the team (roles, expertise and experience relevant for the success of the company): who are the founder/researcher and key team members? What relevant domain experience does the team have? How many employees do you have? How do you plan to scale the team in the next 12 months? What is the team strength?
please report awards, financing rounds, important projects won, remarkable customers and collaborations, important results achieved, sales volume (if any) ... - Max 5 lines
if you are/ have already been supported by incubation or acceleration programs, please provide details regarding those programs (name, when, where, outcomes...)
2. PROPOSED SOLUTION
please report in brief the context supporting the need of the proposed solution
please describe in details your product/service- what problem does your solution solve? How does the solution work? What about other existing solutions, if any? Why do users should prefer/adopt your solution over existing ones (if any)? What are the key differentiated features of your product or service? How easily it can be duplicated?
please report details about any intellectual property title relevant for your proposal (patents, trademark, copyright, etc) such as filing date, abstract, title, references, status, country, who owns the IP (the inventors? the company? others, e.g. the university? Any co-owners?), search report results, freedom to operate reports....
3. MARKET OPPORTUNITY (to be filled where applicable)
please describe the target market (size, possible growth, barriers to entry), your competitive advantages, the competitors mapping: which are your potential customers? What is the actual addressable market? What is its size and growth? What are the barriers to entry? Who are the company’s competitors? How much is their market share (if known)? What gives you a competitive advantage? What advantages does your competitors have over you? Compared to your competitors, how do you compete with respect to price, features, and performance?
please describe your marketing and communication strategy to reach your potential customer, in terms of business model, time to market, current market position and market share target, revenue streams, partnerships that you have/ are going to establish relevant for your business, your growth potential and how to achieve it: how does the company market or plan to market its products or services? When are you going to be on the market? What percentage of the market do you plan to get over what period? What is the company’s communication/advertising/market penetration strategy? Why does your company have high growth potential? How much do you expect to growth over the next years? How are you planning to acquire customer? Do you know the cost per customer acquisition? What is the projected lifetime value of a customer? What is the consumers’ willingness to pay for the product/service? How the product or service will be produced and delivered? What is/will be your expected revenue streams over the years? Are you developing/going to develop new products/services?...
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8th - 10th April 2025
Ravenna - Italy
OMC Med Energy
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