Your partner
through transitioning
to the Circular Economy
What We Do
Technology alone cannot achieve the transition to the circular economy. Our services assist organizations in integrating methodologies, technologies, and business models that reduce, remove, or avoid GHG emissions while increasing ROI and meeting societal goals. If your organization is seeking to enhance its sustainable competitiveness and attract new clients and key partners, please scroll down to see what we offer.
Sustainability strategy
Our team explores strategic options and enables the integration of sustainability factors into your business model. We create key performance indicators (KPIs) based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals to monitor performance and track progress. We analyze your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) context to identify risks and opportunities and develop an ESG Action Plan. If you have not yet found a Sustainability Officer, just get in touch!
Circular business innovation
We assess the circularity performance of industrial products, identify intervention points, and co-design circular strategies to improve value circulation. These insights enable you to manage resources more sustainably and contribute to the creation of sustainable supply chains. Adopting circular thinking and developing circular business innovation skills can create a new corporate culture while positively influencing key supply chain actors.
Sustainable business development
We enable the development, uptake and marketability of sustainable products, services, processes and solutions by creating synergies between business, technology and research partners. We provide close to market research for technologies near commercial stage, new products and services, identify new business opportunities for established companies and support start-ups to accelerate sustainable business growth.
Research and knowledge transfer
Building capacity and co-organising hackathons that connect academia with industry and enable students to develop sustainability-related skills. We participate in research projects, such as EU projects focusing on Research & Innovation Actions. Work packages can cover circularity, sustainability and social sciences and humanities (SSH) to explore and improve the implementation of novel technologies and methodologies.
Who we are
The name Urban Camel is a metaphor that represents how businesses can build resilience and longevity by mimicking natural ecosystems in the way living organisms interact and manage resources.
We act as a liaison between technical and business departments, translating research outcomes into specific and impactful implementations. We work across industries while our area of expertise lies in the Water-Food-Energy nexus and Blue Growth. Blue Growth is a long-term strategy implemented by the European Commission to promote sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors and utilize the untapped potential of Europe's oceans as drivers for the European green economy.
Urban Camel has been awarded the Silver Award for Green Start-Up at the Green Brand Awards 2023 and has also been nominated for the South Europe Start-Up Awards.
We are always open to new synergies and expanding our network of international partners and domain experts. If you are interested in exploring opportunities for a new venture, please feel free to get in touch.
Vision
Urban Camel's vision is the co-creation and growth of sustainable business ecosystems within which eco-conscious and purpose-driven businesses are committed to reconsidering how they create and sustain value while serving society.
We are on a mission to inspire and speed up the adoption of sustainable solutions and enhance the circular performance of businesses and organisations.
Urban Camel aims to be your partner in transitioning to the Circular Economy.
Βusiness Stories
Events & News
Industry.Tec 2023
Our participation in the 1st International Exhibition Industry.Tec - Industrial Equipment highlighted the importance of sustainability and circularity in industrial activities. We shared our stand with Eco Wave Dynamis and presented the groundbreaking "Wave Daedalus" project, a wave energy converter that converts wave power into electricity.
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Ocean Energy Europe
Urban Camel and Eco Wave Dynamis once again joined forces to participate in the Ocean Energy Europe Conference & Exhibition held on October 25th and 26th in the Netherlands. Together with Eco Wave Dynamis, the only Greek exhibitor, we presented the patented Wave Daedalus wave energy converter and the Smart Hybrid Energy System (S.H.E.S). Both prototypes received considerable attention, leading to the creation of follow-up editions and the exploration of new opportunities.
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Hakathon Athens
On May 11th, Urban Camel, the University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm (HNU Germany), and The University of West Attica (Greece) co-organized a hackathon event in Athens. Students from the aforementioned universities, as well as from Shenkar College (Israel), participated in teams and developed solutions for challenges set by companies within one day. The goal was to engage companies with the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.
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StartUp Festival 2023
The International Startup League was a Startup Festival held from May 1 to 6 at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (HNU). It was a privilege to serve as a jury member for the assessment of student solutions developed during the hackathon, and to participate in the roundtable discussion on "Teaching Entrepreneurship," where teaching formats, best practices, and new ideas were shared.
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Green StartUp Silver Award
Urban Camel received the Silver Award for Green StartUp: "Urban Camel enabling Eco Wave Dynamis" at the Green Brand Awards 2023 ceremony held on March 21, 2023 in Athens, Greece. We are excited that our partnership with EWD has the potential to significantly contribute to the supply of renewable and untapped energy sources. This will accelerate decarbonization and promote eco-efficient business operations. This information was published in a press release by B2Green and energypress.
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ISPIM Connects Athens Conference
Urban Camel participated in the ISPIM Connects Athens conference organized by the International Society for Professional Innovation Management and held under the patronage of the Government of the Hellenic Republic. Our presentation highlighted the importance of circular innovation at the business model level. During the "Case Studies from Greece" session, we interviewed the CEO of a Greek startup and shared valuable insights with the audience about sustainable business growth in Greece.
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Supporting Partner
Urban Camel is a supporting partner of Hubs4Circularity as part of the Horizon Europe Programme to establish a European Community of Practice. Our goal is to provide advice to the consortium and support project activities to promote circularity opportunities across Europe.
Business Development Partner
As a business development partner of Eco Wave Dynamis (EWD), Urban Camel works to create synergies with various partners and stakeholders in business, technology and research to advance the development and commercialization of EWD's renewable energy technologies and systems. Urban Camel represents EWD at startup and pitching events, innovation competitions, press and media, while supporting its presence at conferences and exhibitions.
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Contact
- Adrianou 16-18 El Centro building, Kifisia.
- 145 61 Athens, Greece
GEMI No 153454903000