Green Chemistry Accelerator Program
Goal
Establishing and implementing six multi-year accelerator programs in target countries, providing support and training for sustainable businesses and business ideas in green chemistry, and developing regional innovation ecosystems. The Accelerator programs aim to identify and develop promising technologies, support innovators and entrepreneurs, and build national innovation capacity through replication, addressing innovation challenges and creating a direct support system for promising business models.
Vision
A thriving startup community in Green Chemistry in emerging economies, promoting sustainable solutions informed by local needs, developing national capacities for innovation, developing replicable and scalable businesses, and demonstrating the commercial potential of viable alternatives to hazardous materials.
Mission
Providing support and training to Green Chemistry startups that reduce pollution and health impacts through repeated Accelerator programs to identify and nurture promising technologies through a robust, growing startup community.
Strategic Goals
Implement the Accelerator curriculum, considering gender and inclusion, focusing on startups that work in topics such as alternative green solvents, bio-based chemicals, circular economy, climate tech, and the elimination of hazardous materials like mercury and POPs.
Provide targeted financial support and resources in legal, finance, business development, marketing, investment readiness, and technical development, considering local contexts, industries, and full product life cycles and value chains.
Use connections from Component 1 Innovation and Inclusion Network, focusing on industry experts with experience in Green Chemistry, commercialization, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance.
Engage local industrial partners and the public in Innovation Challenges and Hackathons, soliciting Green Chemistry teams to develop solutions to identified industrial problems.
Facilitate the growth of winning technologies from Accelerator programs by connecting them with mentors and resources.
Present startups from the Accelerator to investors and industrial communities.
Build strategies that ensure the long-term sustainability of the businesses, including inviting and securing patient capital for experimental technologies.
Adopt a local context-driven approach, aligning strategies and solutions with local needs and opportunities. This includes careful considerations of energy, resource depletion, water use, and hazard reduction.
The project (Sumy town) aims to develop environmentally friendly solutions for the restoration of degraded and contaminated soils in areas of environmental, man-made and military stress.
The team is working on organic-based formulations with detoxifying properties designed to restore soil structure, enhance biological activity, and ensure long-term fertility.
Their approach combines green chemistry, circular economy principles, and innovative granulation technologies.
The project (Lviv town) focuses on developing an innovative method for extracting high-quality plant-based protein from hemp seeds. Instead of letting it go to waste, the team transforms this residual material into a valuable source of complete protein.
SuperHEMP’s approach combines biotechnology, green chemistry, and circular economy principles. Hemp protein offers a sustainable alternative to animal-based proteins, supports healthy nutrition, and unlocks new opportunities for Ukraine’s agricultural sector.
Felmar’s Lab (the team from Vinnytsia town) is focused on creating eco-friendly biocomposites made from recycled textiles and cellulose-based raw materials as
a safe alternative to toxic materials like particleboard, OSB, and MDF.
Its core focus is on producing strong, lightweight, and affordable composites free of formaldehyde, suitable for use in construction, furniture manufacturing, automotive applications, design, and packaging.
Novel Metals and Compounds is a startup from Horishni Plavni town. It is developing and implementing technologies for the sustainable extraction of critical metals and minerals from unconventional sources. It is focused on lithium extraction from produced water using direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology.
The company drives environmentally responsible and high-tech solutions in the field of resource extraction and processing.
REVIVALEATHER is represented by the team from Khmelnytskyi town. This project aims at developing an effective eco-friendly tanning technology for leather waste using safe materials.
This approach reduces environmental impact and creates a competitive, sustainable material for the light industry. The project integrates principles of sustainable fashion, green chemistry, and the circular economy to promote responsible manufacturing.
This sustainable industrial project (located in Kyiv city) aims at solving the problems of agricultural waste processing, namely the utilization of rice husk ash and corn cobs and their use as a source of silica.
The main objective is to create the production of high quality absorbent products, such as cat litter, adsorbers for the food security sector, chemical industry, non-food sector, etc.
