The EBRD-EU grant programme “Climate Innovation Vouchers” has won the Ukrainian Enterprise Promotion Awards (UEPA), initiated by the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. Ukrainian NGO Greencubator has been implementing the Climate Innovation Vouchers project in Ukraine since 2017.
The UEPA Award recognises the most successful promoters of entrepreneurship at the national, regional, and local levels in Ukraine. From 119 applications, the expert jury chose Climate Innovation Vouchers as the winner in the Digital Technology Support category for the best project implementation and for contributing to the development, implementation, and scaling of innovative green businesses.
As an additional recognition, Greencubator was invited to represent Ukraine at the European EEPA Awards in November 2024 in Hungary.
The Climate Innovation Vouchers programme is part of the EBRD’s Finance and Technology Transfer Centre for Climate Change (FINTECC) programme, supported by the European Union through the EU4CLIMATE initiative. Ukraine was the first country to benefit from the EBRD’s Innovation Voucher Scheme, and today, it is one of the largest grant schemes in Ukraine for innovators in green and climate-friendly technologies.
Greencubator has discovered and supported incredible entrepreneurial talent through this project, creating sustainable solutions for the Ukrainian and global economy. Since 2017, the project has awarded €1.8 million in grants to 54 Ukrainian companies to develop and implement climate innovations at various stages of their operations.
The Climate Innovations Vouchers programme has contributed to the design, development and promotion of technologies that are at the heart of many Ukrainian innovative businesses, such as the Guinness World Record-winning electric bikes Delfast, energy-saving ventilation system PRANA or electric vehicle solutions GO TO-U.
Greencubator is grateful to the organisers of the UEPA Awards for recognising our dedicated work towards fostering the ecosystem of sustainable entrepreneurship, climate innovation and the green economy in Ukraine for 15 years.
Greencubator is honoured to work with our partners, the EBRD and the EU, who have launched the Climate Innovation Vouchers project to support Ukraine’s Green Economy transition. We are proud of the sustainable businesses that received the vouchers and were able to significantly improve their developments, attract significant investments, scale up, and find customers across all five continents.
The UEPA is the Ukrainian stage of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA). The Ukrainian Enterprise Promotion Awards 2024 was initiated by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office within the framework of the EU4Business project: SME Policies and Institutions Support (SMEPIS) project, implemented by Ecorys in consortium with GIZ, BRDO and Civitta and funded by the European Union.
