100 SOLUTIONS: EUROPEAN INNOVATION EXCELLENCE

The Arch is behind a call for solutions for the ecological transition, launched in the summer of 2022. Implemented by Atlanpole Nantes and the two networks European Business and innovation center Network (EBN) and International Association of Science Parks and areas of innovation (IASP), this call for projects concerns 5 themes: Energy, Health & Food, Housing & City, Mobility, Energy and Industry & Digital. 

The selection criteria: solutions must be economically viable, sustainable and replicable. 

100 solutions from 18 countries have been selected.

“We had to explain the concept of The Arch to the network heads. There was no question of having projects already on the shelf, or the Lépine competition. We wanted well-developed projects, with a prototype and a business model,” explains Jean-François Balducchi, Atlanpole’s general manager. “The project had to respect a tangible level of innovation, it had to be carried by a team with a company or a business project behind it, it had to be ambitious with an impact on the ecological transition by providing solutions to global warming, and finally it had to have a business model and ease of deployment in the not too distant future.”

THE 100 SOLUTIONS LIST