# SELECTED MATCH-MAKING

Individual match-making aligns the best research projects for our environment with committed investors and economic partners. WITHOUT time-consuming applications and bureaucratic obstacles. This means we can test lots of ideas in a short space of time – and quickly implement the ones that work.

Projects:

• #Ideas and technologies with high environmental relevance from the academic world*, PRE-Market-Intro
• #Carefully selected through personal scouting on the basis of decade-long experience and an outstanding network
• #Selected and reviewed by ACTIV and external scientific advisers

Investors:

• #Selected private investors, family offices and companies, many of them have a long history of successful cooperation with ACTIV initiators 

Match-making platform:

• #Trust and quality by-invite-only principle
• #Intuitive, effective networking and match-making
• #Highly secure server 

Goals:

• #50+ environmental projects and 50+ investors / economic partners present on the platform 
• #10+ projects matched 
• #  3+ projects successfully financed via the platform

# IDEA CONTEST

The idea contest puts ACTIV on the radar and ensures our initiatives get off to a flying start. The focus here is on the “doing”. The winners get to kick-start their idea. Backed up by a first-class network of experts and decision-makers.

Target group and ideas:

• #The decision-makers of tomorrow, school pupils, students, scientists, individual people or teams
• #Projects with high environmental relevance, before founding a company

Submission and selection:

• #Online submission of an idea outline via the ACTIV website
• #Selection via an external jury of experts and ACTIV
• #Criteria: Ecological relevance, level of innovation, economic potential, feasibility, customer benefit, unique selling point, market potential

Award ceremony and implementation:

• #Award ceremony for the first three places
• #Access to the ACTIV network and committed support for implementation

Goals:

• #Publicity for exciting ideas from young people has risen
• #3 winning ideas are reviewed and awarded and then supported