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Unstoppable and irreversible: innovation, non-state actors and the Paris Agreement
14 November | 15:00 – 16:30 Meeting room 12 Hosted by Climate-KIC, CDP and BSR Innovation and leadership by non-state actors are critical for accelerating the pace and scale of the transition to a low carbon and resilient economy. This event will bring together leading companies, investors and subnational governments to demonstrate to policy-makers that...
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Nordic Edge – Open Innovation Competition: Stavanger Smart City Hall
In the run-up to the Nordic Edge smart city event in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, innovators are being asked to submit proposals to the Open Innovation Competition on how to transform the iconic Stavanger City Hall into a beacon of smart, sustainable city solutions. The innovators behind the best solutions in response to the...
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Climate & Sustainability Innovation Forum
From managing the innovation process to bench marking impact, understanding the governance of innovation is particularly crucial. Climate-KIC Benelux’s Forum with Hemingway Professional Governance aims to bring (non)-executives board members up to speed with the latest developments around climate and sustainability. In anticipation of the revised Corporate Governance Code in 2017 – in which the...
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Open Innovation Day – Gothenburg
Sustainable Consumption through Open Innovation The City of Gothenburg faces a number of climate-related challenges and is together with Climate-KIC Nordic seeking innovative green-tech solutions that contribute to sustainable consumption. These must have a positive climate impact and be able to reach a wide market faster and more efficiently than has previously been possible. The...
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Innovation Building Block – Assess your project’s climate impact
Introduction Climate-KIC is one of three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) designated in 2010 by the EIT. Climate-KIC’s core purpose is to create opportunities for innovators to address climate change and shape the world’s next economy. But how can we identify the innovation projects with the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and adaptation potential? And...
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Innovation Building Block – Stakeholder management
Improve your management of public-private partnerships by applying the practical insights of transition management. In this one-day session you will explore and discuss the opportunities of public-private partnerships through a learning-by-doing approach and direct interaction with experts and other participants. The main objective of the workshop is to develop a common understanding of how transition...
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Online learning – New massive open online course on renewable energy innovation
Climate-KIC launches its free new-generation action-based course on renewable energy innovation – the REI MOOC. First of its kind The REI MOOC aims to help foster the transformation of renewable energy possibilities into innovative action. It is the first of its kind and has been developed in collaboration with Climate-KIC’s partnering knowledge and innovation community...
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Opening new BTA Living Lab: ETH House of Natural Resources
A new Living Lab of the Climate-KIC flagship Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) will be launched. The House of Natural Resources is located at the ETH Zürich Hönggerberg campus and will open its doors on 2 June. Climate-KIC CEO Bertrand van Ee will be speaking at the high profile opening event. Other speakers include Lino Guzzella,...
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Water scarcity in Southern Europe: Problems and solutions
EIT Climate-KIC partner the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) is a group of science, technology and innovation researchers, policymakers and funding agencies working together to give substance to a new framing for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy—Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). This blog post, part of TIPC’s “Making the Green New Deal happen series,” is...
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COVID-19 responses and recovery plans—the good news and the bad news
When the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across the globe earlier this year, many of us didn’t realise how much of our life would be affected. For weeks, the world has experienced a life on lockdown, shop closures and event cancellations. Stock exchanges were panicking, transport was moving in slow motion, and supply chains were disrupted,...
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