The program
Cities are in a race against time to transform into healthy, resilient urban areas while achieving net-zero emissions within a tight timeframe.
CHALLENGES
Our accelerator program focuses on key challenges in urban environments, including community retrofitting, green spaces, mobility, renewable energy, and data and information systems.
This accelerator is managed and supported by a diverse, international team of experts that are ready to help you reach your goals for healthy, clean, carbon-neutral cities.
APPLICATIONS
We're looking for you! The application deadline for the 2024 edition of the Clean Cities Spain ClimAccelerator is open until May 10th, 12:00 noon.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Numbers Speak
YOUR START-UP can make a difference
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Creation of a deep-tech ecosystem in healthy cities
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startups
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approx. of financing attracted annually
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startups launched new products and services
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nationalities
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connections established between startups and partners
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CEOs are women
TESTIMONIALS
"The university plays a fundamental role in building a public-private collaboration framework and promoting innovation initiatives from a systemic perspective and in an environment of co-creation in aspects as important as urban transformation towards climate neutrality. "
María García
EIT Climate-KIC Spain
Director
Director
"The technology and the business model have grown significantly. We have been able to develop and test new digital functionality for our patented water saving technology, capable of saving up to 25 litres with each shower or hot water use. We tested it in a real environment thanks to one of the program partners, who are now clients and potential investors of the startup."
Eduardo Dueñas
CEO WAISENSE
Alumni 2022 edition
Alumni 2022 edition
"Entrepreneurship plays a key role in the transformation of cities towards climate neutrality. City councils have a roadmap and actions to take, but they cannot do it alone. "The participation of all public and private agents is necessary to face environmental challenges."
Elena Pita
Fundación Biodiversidad
Director
Director
"For Latitudo 40, firstly connections and their vision is that the accelerator is not a simple accelerator is a platform that helps to boost the sustainability focus on cities (…). Clean Cities helped us to improve the narrative of our company and thus, improved our capability to interact with the market."
Franz Haller
CEO Latitudo 40
Alumni 2022
Alumni 2022
"This accelerator has allowed an entity like Ferrovial to get closer to the market, learn about new technologies and be in contact with startups first-hand, with high quality and a real approach to the customer."
Rebeca Guerra
Ferrovial
Sustainability Innovation Lead
Sustainability Innovation Lead
"We believe that the most important value of the accelerator is the level of connection, the contact with similar partners who work in the European context; as well as the mentoring and support provided during the workshops and the New European Bauhaus vision, to do business with a sustainable approach."
Alex D’Elia
CEO Prosume
New European Bauhaus startup
Alumni 2022 edition
New European Bauhaus startup
Alumni 2022 edition
"The opportunity to share experiences and innovation models between the corporations that make up this accelerator, as well as the connection of corporations with startups, is the most notable thing about this initiative."
"The connection and beneficial ecosystem that is generated between corporations and startups is one of the highlights of the accelerator. Startups obtain support to grow and evolve, direct contact with corporations from which they can obtain learning, resources, contacts... At the same time, corporations are in contact with disruptive ideas, new business models..."
"The connection and beneficial ecosystem that is generated between corporations and startups is one of the highlights of the accelerator. Startups obtain support to grow and evolve, direct contact with corporations from which they can obtain learning, resources, contacts... At the same time, corporations are in contact with disruptive ideas, new business models..."
Virginia Sánchez Pérez-Cejuela / Laura García de Diego
Repsol
Open Innovation Senior Analyst / Open Innovation Analyst
Open Innovation Senior Analyst / Open Innovation Analyst
"At Clean Cities we highlight the fact that we have been able to meet important companies in the construction industry to partner and help reduce the CO2 footprint together."
Gaetano Volpe
CEO Mixteresting
Alumni 2022
Alumni 2022
"All the collaborating institutions of the program are from the beginning in the very ideation of the accelerator, which means that the profound and far-reaching changes for the transformation of cities can be materialized more easily through the innovative solutions that arise."
Raquel Povar
Fundación Zaragoza Ciudad por el Conocimiento
Strategic consultant
Strategic consultant
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