Future Hamburg Award

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An award for innovation

A look back at the Future Hamburg Award

Cities all over the world are facing new challenges that are changing all facets of our everyday urban lives. The economy, society and climate - everything is characterised by technological progress. But how can we continue to make cities liveable? And what does a sustainable, future-proof urban lifestyle look like?

The Future Hamburg Award was created to promote pioneering solutions to these questions. The award has strengthened Hamburg as a start-up location and inspired innovative companies to come to the region. Since its launch, the Future Hamburg Award has been a great success and has promoted pioneering business ideas.

The last edition took place in 2023. Even though the award will not be continued in this form, it has provided valuable impetus and accompanied numerous companies on their way - a commitment that Hamburg will continue in the future.

An important building block of this future is scaleup Hamburg - the city's official programme to promote collaboration between innovative international scale-ups and Hamburg-based companies. While the Future Hamburg Award has honoured outstanding start-ups, scaleup Hamburg is taking the next step: it accelerates the spread of innovative technologies, promotes sustainable partnerships and thus strengthens the competitiveness of Hamburg's economy.

Future Hamburg Talks

Maximilian Webers from the start-up Colipi as a guest at the Future Hamburg Talks

"We are a brewery that produces oils rather than beers," explains Maximilian Webers, CEO and co-founder of biotech start-up COLIPI. He and his Hamburg-based team are developing a climate oil that is intended to be a sustainable alternative to palm oil.
The trio of founders won the Future Hamburg Award in 2023 and are now guests in our Future Hamburg Talks interview format, where they talk about the exciting development of the Hamburg start-up, the role played by Hamburg University of Technology and why Hamburg as a business location and access to green hydrogen are important.

Logo of the Future Hamburg Award. The lettering 'future hamburg' is in dark blue lettering, with 'award' in white lettering on a red arrow below. At the top right is a stylised red anchor symbol.
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Carmen Leichsenring

Project Manager Future Hamburg

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20355 Hamburg

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