Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (South Africa)

About

The Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP-SA) invites South African Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) with innovative clean technology solutions to apply for a comprehensive business accelerator and competition, offering extensive mentoring, training, and access to investors, along with the chance to win a cash prize and an overseas trip to compete internationally, with a focus on empowering women, youth, and previously marginalised communities.

Benefits

• Extensive mentoring and training
• Access to investors
• Opportunities to showcase innovations to the market
• Chance to win a cash prize
• Opportunity for an overseas trip to compete with winners from other countries

Eligibility Criteria

• Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) with innovative clean technology solutions
• New and ground-breaking technologies in the cleantech sector
• Adaptation of existing technologies or unique applications of inbound technologies
• Protectable Intellectual Property required
• Feasible concept and product with commercialisation potential
• Technology stage: Proof of concept to pre-commercialisation
• Registered South African Entity
• Preference for women, youth, persons with disabilities, and black entrepreneurs from previously marginalised provinces