New York – The Urban Future Lab, a platform for smart cities and smart grids at New York University, has launched a competition to encourage start-ups to present their solutions for global urban energy and sustainability.
The Urban Future Competition is inviting start-ups to present their transformative business solutions in one of two categories: smart cities and smart grids. The first category includes urban infrastructure and resiliency, transportation and transit, the Internet of Things, sensor networks, analytics and more, according to a statement from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, which launched the competition. The second category includes renewable energy, grid modernisation, distributed generation, microgrids and the like.
The Urban Future Lab is located at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in New York City. It is home to many programmes such as the business incubator ACRE, which is one of the cluster partners of the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA). The Swiss business association swisscleantech is a founding member of the global network of cleantech companies GCCA, and its chairperson Christian Häuselmann is responsible for innovation and export at swisscleantech.
The winners of the Urban Future Competition will receive a prize of up to USD 25,000 and will also join the ACRE incubator where they will meet with mentors who can help them with their ideas and further develop the start-ups and their innovations.
The application deadline is 14 August. Finalists will pitch their ideas to their jury on 12 September and the winners will be announced two weeks later on 27 September.
