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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.   

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.