Innovandi Open Innovation Challenge 2025
GCCA announces latest global start-up challenge in the drive towards net-zero concrete
START-ups from around the world can play an important role in helping an essential global industry in its efforts to cut CO2 emissions and help solve the climate challenge, which is why the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its member companies across the world are inviting them to apply for the Innovandi Open Challenge 2025.
The Innovandi Open Challenge, now in its 4th year, is the GCCA’s accelerator that partners start-ups with GCCA members to develop technologies and innovations to help the cement and concrete sector decarbonize.
The Open Challenge 4 is looking for start-ups from around the world working on next-generation materials towards net-zero concrete, eg low-carbon admixtures, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), activators, or binders.
Innovation can help further unlock the delivery of low-carbon concrete by reducing the amount of clinker used – the carbon intensive element of cement – and by using the most cutting-edge materials as part of the concrete mix to reduce CO2 emissions.
Thomas Guillot, chief executive of the GCCA, said: ‘Advanced production methods which are decarbonizing our sector are already being used in cement and concrete production in many parts of the world. Through the Innovandi Open Challenge, start-ups can bring in even newer ideas and further accelerate our industry’s push.
‘We’re calling on the best and the brightest from around the world to join us in the urgent fight to limit global warming and help towards delivering net-zero concrete. If you are a start-up from anywhere in the world with an innovative idea or technology, then we want to hear from you.’
The global challenge matches start-up companies with some of the world’s leading cement and concrete manufacturers, who operate in almost every country across the world, to work on initiatives to cut emissions and pioneer environmental change across the industry.
Start-ups can find more information and apply to take part in the Innovandi Open Challenge by going to the GCCA Open Challenge 4 webpage.
