Projects
18 June 2026
Call4Innovation for Deep Tech & New Materials
Through Call4Innovation, Ideofarm seeks startups and solutions with high innovative potential capable of contributing to the evolution of the next generation of technological products, systems, and services.
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Projects
19 January 2026
Premio MICS Future Made in Italy | Call for Circular Startups
The Italian industrial system is called to undergo a profound transformation: reducing environmental impact, increasing resource efficiency, and rethinking products and processes through a circular approach.
To address this challenge, the Premio MICS – Call 4 Circular Startup was created, promoted by MICS – Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile, with the support of the Circular Economy Lab.
Projects
09 December 2025
Research Gateway: Veolia's bridge project linking scientific research and industry to accelerate the energy transition in Italy
Research Gateway connects Italian academic research with Veolia’s industrial ecosystem to turn prototypes and ideas into scalable, sustainable energy solutions. An acceleration pathway offering training, mentorship, access to testing on real plants, and investment opportunities to speed up the energy transition.
Projects
30 October 2025
Call4Circular Solutions | Shaping Italy’s Circular Future
Italy's future can be circular: reducing waste, valuing precious resources, creating quality jobs.
Call4Circular Solutions | Shaping Italy's Circular Future is an open innovation initiative promoted by the Italian Alliance for the Circular Economy with the support of the Circular Economy Lab.
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Projects
24 October 2024
Iren Startup Award: Call 4 Artificial Intelligence
The Iren Group launches the 2024 edition of the Iren Startup Award: Call 4 Artificial Intelligence, an open innovation project carried out by the Circular Economy Lab for the Iren Group. This call is aimed at startups and innovative SMEs with the goal of identifying innovative digital solutions (software and hardware connected to intelligent software) based on artificial intelligence (AI), capable of optimizing business processes and promoting a more efficient and sustainable business model.
Projects
27 September 2024
Greentech and Circular Economy Innovation Call
The call specifically targets start-ups and SMEs that are already developing innovative solutions for improving refinery waste management, remediating soil and water contamination, and improving energy.
Projects
18 June 2024
Call4Circular x Greenthesis | Innovation for environmental services
Call4Circular x Greenthesis | Innovation for Environmental Services is a circular open innovation project by the Circular Economy Lab for Greenthesis, aimed at identifying and supporting projects that propose circular innovations in environmental services. This initiative seeks to engage entrepreneurs, startups, and innovative SMEs ready to contribute cutting-edge ideas and solutions
Projects
09 November 2023
Call4Circular | Circular Water 4 Healthcare
Circular Water 4 healthcare is the circular open innovation project promoted by SYNLAB and Bracco, in partnership with IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi, in the context of Federated Innovation @MIND, and implemented by the Circular Economy Lab - initiative of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and Cariplo Factory. The aim of this initiative is to define a scalable and replicable best practice for the recovery, in particular, of contrast liquids and the management of hospital wastewater, through the implementation of processes that can become a model of innovation for the Italian and international Healthcare sector, as well as for legislators and technological partners, in hospital and laboratory wastewater management.
Projects
21 November 2022
Iren Startup Award: Call4Circular | Circular products and materials
To be an active part in the change of different method of waste processing, the Iren Group has created the 2022 edition of the Iren Startup Award “Call4Circular | Circular products and materials”, a circular open innovation project created in collaboration with the Circular Economy Lab – an initiative by Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and Cariplo Factory.
Projects
01 July 2022
Call4Energy | The mobility evolution
Call4Energy | The mobility evolution is a circular open innovation project realized realized by the Circular Economy Lab - an initiative of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and Cariplo Factory - for Aquila Energie.
Projects
01 September 2021
Call4Circular Packaging
Call4Circular Packaging - The value of vegetal fibers is the circular open innovation project created for Ecopack, aims to identify innovative materials in vegetable fibers. The goal is to replace vergin plastic packaging and containers used in the food sector.
Projects
01 September 2020
Circularity goes Digital
Circularity goes Digital is an initiative that aims to launch an acceleration process for the adoption of the circular economy model by Italian companies through digital technologies and open innovation.
Projects
01 May 2020
Trace x Greenthesis
Trace x Greenthesis is an open innovation initiative addressed to post-seed startups and innovative SMEs that can offer technological solutions in line with the specific activities and areas of interest of Greenthesis Group.
Projects
01 October 2018
Trace x Novamont
Trace x Novamont is the open innovation initiative promoted by Cariplo Factory and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, aimed to support the growth of projects in the circular bioeconomy sector, creating industrial synergies between Novamont and startups, industry and research projects.
Projects
01 March 2018
Tracing the Circular Economy
Trace is a platform created with the aim of mapping and chronicling the Circular Economy. The initiative sets out to gather established ideas, projects or initiatives which already subscribe to the circular economy model, going beyond the traditional linear concept of take-make-consume-dispose to explore new models of sustainable growth and development.