COOPEN – Call for Innovators: Circular Economy Grant
In context
This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits and 4 others, at idea and R&D stage and prototype and pilot stage. Coverage is read from the notice itself: Italy and Africa.
Open innovation challenge funding substantive solutions for circular economy models based on sharing, reusing, and repairing materials. Targets Italy-Africa partnerships seeking to shift production and consumption patterns toward sustainability.
About this grant
COOPEN is an open innovation programme promoting participative solutions between Italy and Africa across three key thematic areas: Circular Economy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, and Health and Well-being. The programme addresses major challenges in international development cooperation and contributes to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It operates through a four-phase approach: first, building calls for interest and participative roundtables; second, issuing challenge calls for innovators in the three thematic areas; third, providing incubation and acceleration support with partnership activation and funding for planning and development; and fourth, offering mentoring and achievement support to ground projects and launch them in target markets. The Circular Economy component specifically seeks substantive, inclusive and sustainable solutions for new production and consumption models based on sharing, reusing, and repairing materials.
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Eligibility
The page does not specify detailed eligibility criteria. It indicates the programme operates between Italy and Africa, with focus countries in East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia) and West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger). Applicants should have innovative solutions relevant to one of the three thematic areas: Circular Economy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, or Health and Well-being.
How it's scored
The page does not provide specific evaluation criteria or scoring methodology. It indicates that challenges are selected through a process of participative roundtables and calls for interest, but does not detail the evaluation panel composition or scoring weights.
Key requirements
- ✓Substantive, inclusive and sustainable solutions for circular economy
- ✓Focus on sharing, reusing and repairing materials
- ✓Italy-Africa partnership structure required
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for COOPEN – Call for Innovators: Circular Economy?
- Eligibility covers organisations in IT, AFRICA; startup, sme, nonprofit, social-enterprise, cooperative, university, consortium. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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How this compares
- Compared with 7 similar grants (circular in Italy) listed in the last 12 months.
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About this sector
Circular economy funding supports reuse, repair, remanufacturing, product redesign and secondary materials markets. Grants tend to back pilots with businesses and local authorities, while tenders buy collection, sorting and recovery services. Applicants are usually asked to show the material flows involved and who will buy the recovered output.
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