Time to scale.

Over the last decade, the EU has become a cleantech innovation powerhouse. A new generation of industrial leaders could underpin Europe’s global competitiveness and prosperity for decades to come. However, we still struggle to scale and industrialise clean technologies in Europe, especially when they are developed by newcomers. At the same time, European industry is suffering from high energy prices, a lack of investment and an uneven playing field with global peers. With competition heating up from the US and China, clean technologies are the answer to Europe’s industrial competitiveness. We have already developed most of the technologies required to bring us to climate neutrality and energy resilience, but that is not enough. Now, Europe urgently needs to deploy these innovations – and to do so, scale matters.

This year’s Summit takes place in Brussels at the very start of a new political mandate for the EU. This is a crucial time to ensure Europe’s strategic agenda focuses on industrial competitiveness and prioritises the scale-up of our cleantech manufacturing sector. As the EU starts a new political cycle, Cleantech for Europe Summit 2024 will gather the highest levels of policy and cleantech leaders to chart a path to competitiveness and industrial leadership for Europe.

The Summit is an invite-only event, limited to 150 participants, and focuses on high-level discussions and announcements. You can request an invitation via filling out the form below.

Last years event featured a keynote address by the  European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, panels and keynotes from numerous cleantech CEOs and other leaders, as well as the induction of new members into our Scale-up Coalition, and the announcement of a significant partnership between Cleantech for Europe and the European Innovation Council. The Summit also featured a generative collaborative exercise chaired by Members of European Parliament and led by sectoral experts to roadmap ways to scale and deploy innovation in key technology areas where EU cleantech companies have an innovation edge.