The third edition of “Next Energy” is underway, the initiative promoted by Terna and the Cariplo Foundation and created by Cariplo Factory in collaboration with the Terna Campus for the development of youth employment and entrepreneurship.
The competition covers three sectors:
- young graduates under the age of 28 who have obtained a specialist degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Economics for less than 12 months with a mark of no less than 110/110 or 100/100 ("Call For Talents"), who they will have access to an internship at Terna structures involved in the development of innovative projects;
- team of innovators, with at least one person under the age of 35 on the date of submission of the application and a project based on initiatives and/or technologies with a level of TRL, Technology Readiness Level, between 2 and 5 ("Call for Ideas "). The best project will be awarded a prize of 50.000 euros (voucher in acceleration and go-to-market services) and the 10 selected teams of innovators and/or startups will have access to an incubation program lasting up to 3 months.
- Startups and innovative companies operating mainly in the EU, which have already developed a customer portfolio or have successfully tested at least one prototype or have a marketable product/service, and are based on initiatives and/or technologies with a TRL level between 5 and 8 (“Call for Growth”). Up to a maximum of 5 startups or innovative companies will be selected to access growITup, the open innovation platform of Cariplo Factory, with the aim of defining potential areas of synergy with Terna and a pilot project to be tested.
Rome and Milan will host two selection days this year, "Selection for Talents", to identify the 10 recent graduates who will access the internship at Terna.
Recent graduates, innovators and startuppers have until November 23 to submit their applications. To find out more details and how to participate in Next Energy, all interested parties can consult the call available at nextenergy.cariplofactory.it.
“This third edition of Next Energy brings with it important innovations aimed at encouraging collaboration and the sharing of values between the company, university and research – comments Catia Bastioli, president of Terna – The openness to young talents, in addition to Engineering, also Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Economics testify to our desire to promote the contamination of skills and ideas to identify new paths that help us find innovative and at the same time sustainable solutions. In fact, never before has a company like Terna, which can be defined as an innovation prosumer, had the duty to emphasize the values and resources that the local area represents”.
“We are achieving the goals we set ourselves with the creation of 10 job opportunities that Fondazione Cariplo has undertaken to achieve with the Cariplo Factory inter-sectoral program – said Giuseppe Guzzetti, president of the Cariplo Foundation – Pride is not only this, but it also lies in seeing that initiatives such as Next Energy grow, expand and add elements of innovation to each edition. This means growing and improving and helping others, in this case our young talents, to grow and have the opportunity to look to the future with hope, feeling accomplished in putting their skills to good use".
