Deadline: September 30, 2025
Applications are open for the L’Oréal Groupe Sustainable Innovation Accelerator Programme 2025. L’Oréal Groupe, the world’s leading beauty company, paves the way for a more sustainable future in seeking, advancing and scaling pioneering solutions through a Sustainable Innovation Accelerator programme.
Building on its long-standing culture of innovation L’Oréal partners with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s Canopy innovation experts to scout, identify, pilot, and scale breakthrough technologies addressing critical solution gaps within the industry in support of its sustainability transformation.
Benefits
Successful applicants will join an up to 12-month programme that includes:
- A 12-week group acceleration support delivered by CISL innovation team, focused on pilot readiness.
- Up to 12 hours of 1:1 mentoring and coaching from global sustainability, innovation and industry leaders.
- In-person or virtual peer-learning sessions.
- The potential opportunity to co-develop pilot projects with L’Oréal, including, if applicable, the potential opportunity for commercial agreement or investment.
- Leveraging CISL’s sustainability expertise and L’Oréal’s leading cosmetics industry position.
Eligibility
They are seeking deployment-ready sustainability innovation from startups, scaleups, SMEs and established companies from around the world, at TRL 7 or higher, that align with one or more of the seven key innovation areas outlined below:
- Low-carbon, climate-smart technologies
- Water resilience solutions
- Nature-based solutions
- Alternative ingredients and materials
- Eliminating fossil plastic use and plastic waste
- Circularity and resource management
- Sustainable and inclusive business models
Application
Here are key dates:
- Application: Opens 23 June and closes 30 September 2025.
- Cohort selection: November 2025
- Tailored acceleration and mentoring: Starts November 2025 – closes February 2026
- Execution of pilots, if applicable: Starts February 2026 (expected 6 to 9 months)
For more information, visit Sustainable Innovation Accelerator.
