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Catwalk Competition 2020
Sustainable innovations
International Competition of Sustainable innovations
The Concept of Catwalk Competition
Brilliant sustainable innovations, successful eco-projects or initiatives with a real impact in sustainability and climate protection are selected annually by the Climate Show’s partners for the international competition of sustainable solutions.
The Catwalk competition aims to promote sustainable innovations and solutions of companies and individuals. The jury of the Catwalk competition will be composed of a minimum of 3 world-class entrepreneurs, investors, or journalists who will adjudicate the entrants and select the winning participants.
2020 Catwalk Teams & Companies
The 18 sustainable companies and the distribution of the teams of the Sustainable Innovations Catwalk competition!
Team Swiss Federal Office for the Environment - Team (FOEN)
Team Swiss Climate Foundation - Team (SCF)
Team Swiss Youth for Climate - Team SYFC
Team Climate Show
Team Loomish
Team CleantechAlps - Team (CTAlps)
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Real impact in sustainability
PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE INNOVATIONS AND SOLUTIONS
How to participate
Selection criteria & themes
Selection criteria
- Outstanding innovation, bringing real change with a global reach
- Sustainable solutions or clean technologies
- Solutions capable of replacing unsustainable ones
- Service, product or initiative which can be executed with a large-scale impact
- The sense of ethics, transparency and respect for human and environmental values
The selected projects will relate to one or more of the following themes :
- Eco-mobility
- Sustainable construction
- Fight against climate change
- Circular economy
- Renewable energy
- Sustainable finance
Information
About the Sylvester Cat Award
Sylvester, the European wildcat and the mascot of the competition, has disappeared from several parts of the world and especially in Europe. This is probably due to the disappearance of its forest habitat. Its return and re-appearance symbolize for some, the return of nature.
Organization of the Catwalk competition program
1st ROUND
November 4, 2020 Project leaders’ pitchs and Q&A in the first round (18 challengers companies)
Deliberation
November 4, 2020 Deliberation of the jury to select the 6 finalists from the first round
2nd ROUND
November 11, 2020 Pitchs and Q&A of project leaders of the second round
Deliberation
November 11, 2020 Deliberation of the jury to select the 3 finalists of the second round
Award
November 11, 2020 Final Q&A, deliberation of the jury to select the winner and the award ceremony
Jury Members 2020 and the Moderator
Jury members 2020 are specialized in various fields such as Entrepreneurship, Investment and Sustainability Media.
Jeffrey Petty - Jury member
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Jeffrey Petty is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, and academic director of the EMBA program.
Élodie Maître-Arnaud - Jury member
Editor-in-chief of Efficience 21 magazine
Élodie Maître-Arnaud is co-director of Inédit Publications in Lausanne. She has been editor-in-chief of Efficience 21 magazine since 2013.
Josep Segarra - Jury member
Investment Manager
Josep joined Quadia in 2016. In his current capacity of Investment Manager, he is responsible for sourcing, assessing, structuring, closing and managing direct investment opportunities.
Caroline Gueissaz - Jury member
Presidente Business Angels Switzerland
Carolie is the General Manager of BAS. She is a board member at SERV (Swiss Export Credit Agency) and at three other SME’s, and president of ASEN-Entreprendre Neuchâtel.
Michael Merz - Jury member
Editor-in-chief at UmweltPerspektiven
Michael Merz, is editor-in-chief at UmweltPerspektiven and an experienced freelance Publisher. He has been writing about key topics like environment, society, health, management for over 20 years.
John Hartung - Catwalk Moderator
Editor-In-chief of Market Magazine
John Hartung is the publisher of Market Magazine where he manages the sustainability section and works as a consultant in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
1st and 2nd Round
The partners taking part in the competition will each preselect three high-performing companies among those they have supported or from their network. The three companies form a team are paired with another challenger team. These two teams thus form a group (three groups in total: A, B, C).
Project leaders’ pitch in the first and second rounds (No PowerPoint presentation, bringing an item to better explain the project is recommended).
Dates of the 1st round is November 4 and the second round is November 11, 2020.
First Round
Companies in each team will give a very short pitch of 2 min. each and answer the questions of the jury. The jury will select one of the three companies from the same team to advance to the qualification stage.
Date: Wednesday November 4, 2020
Date: Wednesday November 4, 2020
Second Round
Within the same group, the two companies having passed the first round will compete by responding to the questions of the jury for the qualifications to the final. Thus, only one company in each group (A, B, C) will be able to pass the second round and go to the final. At this stage of the competition, three teams from each group will be eliminated.
Date: Wednesday November 11, 2020
Date: Wednesday November 11, 2020
The Final
The three finalists will be invited to give a last pitch and/or take further questions from the jury. The company with the highest score will be named the winner of the 2020 Catwalk Competition, will be awarded the Sylvester Cat Award and will benefit from further media coverage and networking opportunities.
Date: Wednesday November 11, 2020
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