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GTL – Green Tec Labs

This project is completed.  Establishing support structures and an international network for green start-ups in Greece, Spain and Slovakia.

Economy Just Transition Sustainable Economy

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Project info

Countries:

Greece, Slovakia, Spain

Project duration:

11/20 - 02/23

Target groups:

Educational institutions, Local governments, Private sector

Funding:

896,743.47 €

Contact info

Contact:

Silke Steinberg

Implementing organisation
  • FIAP - Research institute for Innovative and Preventive Job Design e.V.
Partner:
  • Asociación de Investigación y Cooperación Industrial de Andalucía (AICIA)
  • City Council of Cadiz
  • Deutsch-Griechische Industrie- und Handelskammer (AHK Griechenland)
  • PEDAL Consulting

Background

The target regions (Athens and Crete in Greece, Andalusia in Spain and Nitra in Slovakia) are experiencing a comprehensive structural change as well as a structurally weak labour market. The development of new services and business ideas has the potential to create new, green jobs while at the same time supporting consumers in the use of climate-friendly technologies. To advance this process, it is essential to support young people in these regions in shaping structural change into new labour markets.

Active participants in a GreenTec Workshop, Photo: ©FIAP

Project

To achieve this, the project supported green start-ups and project ideas, addressing creative young people with technical competences who are interested in or motivated for green ideas. It particularly encouraged young women to develop and implement green business ideas.

The project established local, mobile and virtual labs which offer competence development and technical expertise for entrepreneurship. This included support in developing business ideas and professional ‘green’ competences, in legal issues and innovation management, as well as in developing green proposals for funding programmes. Furthermore, the labs offered trainings in network management, including knowledge exchange, cluster formation, co-creative cooperation management and peer coaching through existing green enterprises. 

Another measure implemented by the project was to set up a transcultural “GreenTecLab” in the form of an interactive, virtual coworking platform. The platform featured virtual conferences, meetings, training courses and individual consultations in order to establish a network and knowledge exchange between and among the European partners and potential founders in the target regions.

Results

  • As part of the project, 51 green start-ups were supported in their development. At the end of the project, 14 initiatives have launched their product or service and at least three more are planning to launch their companies in 2023 
  • Establishment of sustainable support structures for green start-ups in the virtual, local and mobile labs 
  • Four memoranda have been signed with local, regional and national network partners to continue the labs and support the start-ups and projects 

Last update: July 2025

More about this project

Blog posts

post
28 April 2023

GreenTecLab: Start-Ups of the month

news
25 March 2022

GreenTecLab: Knowledge Pills

post
08 December 2021

GTL Start-ups from Crete in the Ruhr Area: Experience exchange for transition

post
09 November 2021

Creative autumn in GreenTecLab: First start-ups and new activities in the European GreenTecLabs (GTL)

post
30 July 2021

Green Business Ideas for Climate Protection and Agricultural Economy - First Pitch Event of green Start-ups on Crete in the project GreenTecLab

post
03 June 2021

GreenTecLab: Green Recovery – New Start-ups and Projects for Greece, Spain and Slovakia

Publications

publications
23 September 2022

Green innovations for local transformation processes: European startups as drivers for transition