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Team for the Planet, the Lyon-based climate organization founded in 2020, has launched a global call for innovation that awards €1 million to each selected inventor, with the explicit mandate of pushing winning technologies to industrial scale.
The program targets researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs operating anywhere in the world.
The Capital Allocation Each winning innovation receives €1 million — not a grant spread across milestones or a prize for past work, but capital directed at the transition from proven concept to industrial-scale deployment.
That framing matters: Team for the Planet is not buying intellectual property or equity stakes in the conventional sense; it is funding the scale-up phase, historically the most capital-intensive and least venture-friendly stretch of the climate-technology development curve.
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