Welcome to the CleanTech Challenge
What?
The CleanTech Challenge is a free global business plan competition for ideas related to clean and durable technologies. We seek ideas that have the potential to make a significant environmental impact to promote sustainable ventures.
For Who?
Students from all universities and colleges in Belgium can apply. This includes Bachelors, Masters and PhDs, local and international students.
Where?
The Belgian competition is hosted in Leuven by AFT and AFD. The winner gets the opportunity to go to the international final in London hosted by London Business School and University College London.
Tell me more!
The Belgian competition, organised by Academics For Development Leuven and Academics For Technology, will determine who will be sent to the finals in London, and there they will compete for the £10.000 prize to fund their start-up.

PROFESSIONAL COACHING
With the help of multiple workshops and professional guidance, you’ll get to turn your idea into a start-up

WIN THE BELGIAN FINALS
Compete against the other teams in the Belgian finals and impress the jury with pitch and sustainable startup

GO TO LONDON
During a two-day CleanTech Challenge Bootcamp the overall winning team will be chosen and will be rewarded with a £10.000 prize
Timeline CTC 2020-2021
Keep an eye out on our socials and website for further updates!
1st semester
Wed 28 Oct - Kick-off Event 2020-2021
Mon 1 Nov - "Ideation: from idea to growth" by Yannick Dillen
Thu 12 Nov - AFD & AFT Leuven: "Tackling Innovative Problems"
Not sure yet if your idea is good enough or it’s still too vague? Don’t worry! In this workshop AFD and AFT will support your start-up journey with interesting cases to help solidify your business idea.
Tue 24 Nov - Umicore: "Sustainability in Practice" by Wouter Ghyoot
Wed 11 dec - Feedback Session 1st semester
2nd semester
17/02 - IMEC: "Financial workshop"
03/03 - Feedback session
10/03 - McKinsey & Company: "Pitching with Impact"
How to promote your project to the world? How to convince the jury that your idea is the best? McKinsey & Company will teach us more about some key pitching strategies to present with impact and tips to convince the jury of your startup idea! The workshop will be held at the offices of McKinsey & Company in Brussels..
22/03 - Belgian Finals "The Road to London"
During the finals all teams compete against each other. The teams get a chance to pitch their project to our Dragon’s Den jury. The most promising startup will be rewarded the golden ticket to London. Take a look at our socials for more information!
TBA - Global Finals @ London
Aftermovie CleanTech Challenge 2019-2020
Our team
The CleanTech challenge Belgium is organized by AFT Leuven and AFD Leuven.





Mathijs Hubrechtsen
AFD CleanTech Manager

Valerie Mennes
AFD CleanTech Manager


Thomas Stevens
AFT CleanTech Manager

Michiel De Maeyer
AFT CleanTech Manager
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