Sustainability Booster

The Sustainability Booster gives you the opportunity to contribute to sustainable ideas or existing sustainable start-ups. The booster offers visits to start-ups (safaris), free coaching, targeted workshops and networking events followed by an aperitif. It is designed to help you get your act together and make sustainable ideas fly in the form of a start-up. Finally, you can present your project at the pitching event and win prizes to promote your start-up.

When: Beginning of October until the end of November 2024, the kick-off starts at 18:00, all other events start at 19:00 and end at 21:00.

Where: At the ZHAW, in Zurich, with kick-off at Technopark Winterthur and optional visit to sustainable start-ups (safaris).

You already have a startup with a sustainable background and are interested in working with new people to take a specific idea forward in a short space of time as part of the Booster Program.
You have a sustainable idea that you want to test as part of the Booster program and you are looking for people to help you take this idea further.
You don't have your own idea yet, but would like to help a sustainable startup or another person with a concrete idea to take a sustainable project forward.
Any topic that fulfills one of the Sustainable Development Goals fits the Sustainability Booster, but this year we especially want to invite people in the field of psychology & social issues to actively contribute their ideas or background to solutions.

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By registering for the Sustainability Booster, you confirm your participation in the kick-off event. If your start-up idea is selected or you would like to join a team, you are also invited to the three workshops & coaching sessions and the final pitch event, where prizes will be awarded for the best three ideas.

Participation in the Sustainability Booster and the startup visits (safaris), including all drinks receptions, are free of charge. At the kick-off event, you can present your ideas and form teams or expand your existing teams. A condition for further participation after the kick-off is that at least one person per team must study or work at the ZHAW or be a member of a ZHAW startup initiative (e.g. Runway Incubator).