Ecosummit 2012 is backed by 20 ECO12 Partners providing media, research and marketing support. We are very grateful for the productive cooperation.

ECO12 Media Partner

WirtschaftsWoche is the basic information medium for Germany‘s business elite: decision-makers in companies and the world of politics – and those hoping to achieve similar status; people whose market economy mindset and cosmopolitan attitudes make them innovative thinkers and the trailblazers in today‘s economy. For WirtschaftsWoche, meaningful economic activity is the measure of all things, regardless of political, social or personal preferences. The magazine‘s recognised business expertise, the quality and exclusivity of the information it provides and the high level of “inside knowledge” are what makes WirtschaftsWoche the mouthpiece of the German economy. By simply doing what it does best, WirtschaftsWoche plays a key role in shaping business and politics both today and in the future. WirtschaftsWoche readers are at home in the boardrooms of German companies. They earn above-average incomes and make up an indispensable premium target group – in terms of both business decision-making powers and private spending. The success of the magazine is underlined by the continuous uptrend in circulation figures and coverage – and backed up by the high quality of the circulation profile. No other business magazine has a higher “hard” circulation than WirtschaftsWoche.

ECO12 Association Partner

The German Renewable Energy Federation BEE (Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie e.V.) is the umbrella organization of the associations for renewable energies in Germany. BEE was founded in 1991 as the political umbrella organization of the renewable energy sector in Germany. 22 associations from water power, wind energy, biomass, solar energy and geothermal energy are currently members of the federation with a total of over 30,000 individual members and companies. The long-term goal of BEE is the complete convertion to the use of renewable energy. Therefore the statutory tasks of BEE include the improvement of basic legal conditions for renewable energy, working for the priority of renewable energy over other energy sources and the coordination of individual activities of the associations on the political and public stage. BEE arranges consultations with political groups, with authorities, with specialised institutes and with other organizations. It convenes expert hearings, commissions studies, compiles response statements to legislative projects and promotes awareness of renewable energy through the media.

ECO12 Research Partner

Bloomberg New Energy Finance is the world’s leading provider of industry information and analysis to investors, corporations and governments in clean energy, low carbon technologies and the carbon markets. We have a dedicated global network of 180 analysts, based across 10 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia & Africa.

ECO12 Marketing Partner

Munich Network is an association of technology companies as well as an ecosystem of scientific research institutions, equity investors, financial service providers, consultancies and entrepreneurial personalities. Members benefit from the highly valuable resources Munich Network offers. In our networks we link technology entrepreneurs with each other as well as with industry leaders, users, research and development organizations, investors exceeding regional and national borders and provide them platforms equipped with the best resources of experience, knowledge, ideas, talents and capital. We are open regarding technologies and industrial sectors and put our main focus in topics in the following two innovation areas: within cleantech_net we address Clean Technologies, innovations for a sound climate, eco-friendly use of natural resources and sustainable economic activity. With the mobile@all initiative we foster new opportunities in the mobile economy.

ECO12 Media Partners

Gründerszene is the biggest German magazine writing about Internet business and the startup scene. Since 2006, the online magazine has been covering all the latest news and trends from Germany as well as posting interviews, expert articles and features on web entrepreneurship, venture capitalism in the technology sector and related topics. On top, Gründerszene offers seminars, a growing database, events, a job board and a business directory.

neue energie (monthly, German) and new energy (bimonthly, English) are key sources of information about the international renewable energy market, providing insight not only to professional operators, planning institutions and manufacturers, but also to all friends and supporters of renewable energy sources. neue energie and new energy are available by subscription and focus primarily on the current technical, economic and political developments pertaining to all forms of renewable energy, including wind, solar, biomass, small-scale hydro, wave and geothermal energy. neue energie is Germany’s best selling monthly on renewables. The editorial team also publishes the German ee-blog.

Since May 2000, VentureCapital Magazin has been delivering high-quality corporate finance information to investors and entrepreneurs on a monthly basis. Editorial focus is placed on private equity, venture capital and buy-out transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions. The monthly column “Deal Monitor“ reports on financing rounds and investment exits among German private equity companies and/or investee companies. VentureCapital Magazin is committed to nurturing the development of the equity and entrepreneur scene. The editorial goal is to provide investors with the best available coverage of market news, competitive environments and industry trends as well as to acquaint managers and entrepreneurs with the many apects of equity financing through expert articles, case studies and success stories.

Cleanthinking.de is a leading online business magazine for all those who are interested in Cleantech topics. Chief editor is the PR Consultant Martin Jendrischik and its main topics, mostly reported from a German and European point of view, are especially clean and renewable energy, electric mobility, energy efficiency, clean production, smart grid and smart metering. News, background stories, interviews and company profiles are daily shown in an editorial way. Cleanthinking.de was founded in January 2009 and meanwhile is highly accepted in the German und European Cleantech business community. Cleanthinking.de Chief editor Martin Jendrischik will blog and tweet (@cleanthinking) live from Ecosummit 2011.

Cleantech Investor is a UK based media company providing business intelligence for the Cleantech economy. Publications include Cleantech magazine, the Quoted Cleantech newsletter and the Cleantech Infocus series. Cleantech Investor runs events in conjunction with partners, including the Cleantech Investor NEXUS live broadcast event series.

Cleantech Republic is an online magazine devoted to green technologies (eco-innovation). Founded by media and web professionals, Cleantech Republic aims to stay abreast of “green” innovations, evaluate their relevance, practices, economic impacts and to facilitate trade and purchase decisions. Cleantech Republic claims a leadership position in this emerging sector with an editorial focus on “Innovation for Sustainable Development”, exclusive and quality content from field interviews (including articles, special files, manuals, studies, video), a modern and open community approach, that gives voices to the world’s experts. Cleantech Republic publishes Greenvivo.com, an online marketplace which allows cleantech vendors to develop their reputation and influence on the Internet thanks to quality contents: infomercials, buyers guides, white papers and sponsored WebTV with the objective to generate qualified leads. Cleantech Republic is also the founder of Young Eco-Innovative Company Awards presented annually in partnership with Oseo and the daily economic newspaper La Tribune.

Deal Radar is a premium information service from New Energy World Network (NewNet) that provides global coverage and forward-looking insights into investment and business opportunities within the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors. The service is used by industry-leading investors, innovators and deal-makers as a source of essential business intelligence, unique insights and valuable opportunities.

Founded in 2008, Cleantuesday is a non-profit organisation aiming to support the development of Cleantech in France and abroad. Cleantuesday has acquired in less than two years a great capital of notoriety and has secured a unique position in the emerging world of Cleantech actors. Cleantuesday brings together the community of Cleantech professionals: Startups, SME, large corporations, investors and local authorities. Cleantuesday is now active in several regions in France and abroad.

deutsche-startups.de supplies information on news on the domestic internet start-up scene on a daily basis. Interviews, portraits of individual start-ups and founders, as well as market census data on interesting segments complete the wealth of daily news. The comprehensive range of information on German start-ups is rounded up by background information on investors, business angels, as well as guest articles by prominent founders and other internet personalities. Over time this results in a reference work on German ideas, concepts, founders, investors and start-ups. The target group of German start-ups are both up-and-coming and established founders, investors and all interested internet enthusiasts wishing to gather comprehensive and exhaustive information on aspiring German start-ups. deutsche-startups.de is arguably the most read blog in this segment.

Foerderland is a web portal that gives founders and young entrepreneurs all the tools, knowledge and news they need to start and sustain their start-up projects. Emerging enterprises tell about their ideas and obstacles to be surpassed, investors talk about the ways of their business, startup experts inform about legal, organizational and marketing matters. If you want to come in touch with all those people, if you want to boost your own project by discussing it with the start-up crowd, if you want to learn and improve your business performance – we welcome you at our site!

RESET is a German information and activism platform for a sustainable planet. It offers news and services as an information portal, as a charity platform and as a donation guide focused on independent charity projects in the field of global justice, human rights and environmental issues. The website www.reset.to combines news and background information with the option of easy and direct action and support. RESET addresses users who are interested in ecological and humanitarian issues and feel the urge to take action and to participate in shaping a sustainable future. Registered users network and interact in a strong community and have the option to publish and share their own news and charitable projects. In this spring, RESET will expand its platform focusing on India and later on China. Reaching beyond mere localization, RESET intends to establish long-term collaboration with locals, whose countries will become the major emitters of carbon dioxide in the near future.

German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) – The DGNB’s constantly growing community of members shares one primary goal: the consistent pursuit of construction that is sustainable and therefore also economically efficient and focused on comfort. We do so by systematically sharing expertise, providing further training for market players, and raising awareness about the issue among the general public. The central building block of our work is the DGNB Certification System. DGNB is also deeply involved in leading global networks, such as the World Green Building Council or the Sustainable Building Alliance.

Architizer is the revolutionary platform for architecture on the Internet. An open network of architects, firms, fans, and projects, Architizer has created a database that spans the world in scope. Launched in November 2009, the site now contains the work of 8,200 international firms and 38,000 individuals joining over 400,000 active users on Facebook.

forum CSR is a platform for all those who take responsibility for a sustainable development in business, politics, sciences and consumption. forum CSR quarterly publishes the leading German print magazine on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a spin-off of the world wide distributed magazine on CSR featuring a wide variety of discussions about sustainable development. Among central CSR issues we report on challenges and solutions for climate change, renewable energies, carbon management, green building, communities, mobility, green IT, human resource management, green money, globalization and eco tourism. We present outstanding pioneers and Think Tanks, associations and NGOs. Together we shed light on the link between competitive advantage and CSR, explore mega trends and the future of sustainable development and CSR.

Established in 2006, Wattgehtab has continued to report the latest developments in the fields of hybrid and electric vehicles and alternative transportation systems. Wattgehtab is the independent source for national and international news covering a wide variety of topics such as commercial vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, electric bikes and charging infrastructure. The lively discussions in the forum, on Facebook and Twitter (@wattgehtab) prove that Wattgehtab has become a recognised platform for e-mobility news.

Changes in the energy industry have gained significant pace. As a result, the close observation and analysis of the markets for electricity and gas have become more important than ever before. The reliable evaluation of trends and tendencies requires a high degree of specialist knowledge and expertise. ener|gate, an information platform, delivers the necessary information on the energy industry from a single source. Providing a quick overview of and rapid access to condensed data are key ingredients. By providing print and online publications along with monthly reports on the gas market and the grid sector, ener|gate gives decision makers all of the answers they need to important questions on the energy market. Individually customized products designed to support sales and to facilitate dialog with the client, specific research services and studies on special issues complete our offer.