Climate-KIC members of the community are the best European institutions and companies from the academic, corporate and public worlds with long-standing expertise in addressing the climate challenge and potential for tangible impact on regional to global spheres. 

Climate-KIC partners are core partners or affiliate partners, or local collaborators to Climate-KIC nodes.

The academic partners include universities and research institutes, which have partly formed consortia that host the five Climate-KIC national centres. Researchers, scholars and alumni, technology transfer entities and the hosts’ management are members of this academic network.

Climate-KIC corporate partners encompass companies from all sectors, large global players as well as SMEs and venture capital firms.

Associations, political and funding bodies form the core public partners of Climate-KIC. 

• Hamburg University
• Technische Universität München
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS
• Ecole Polytechnique
• ParisTech
• Météo-France
• AgroParisTech
• Mines ParisTech
• Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
• Provadis School of International Management and Technology
• Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Universidad de Alicante
• Instituto Tecnológico de la Construcción (AIDICO)
• Universitat Politecnice de Valencia
• Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
• Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación
• Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía
• Wroclawskie Centrum Badan EIT+ sp. z o.o.
• Birmingham City University
• Aston University
• The University of Birmingham
• Rothamsted Research Ltd.
• The University of Reading
• Aberystwyth University
• The University of Warwick
• Bayer MaterialScience
• GASAG Berliner Gaswerke AG
• Vattenfall Europe AG
• Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe (BSR)
• UnternehmerTUM
• Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)
• Solar Valley GmbH
• Southpole Carbon Asset Management
• ARIA Technologies SA
• Climpact SA
• Noveltis
• NUMTECH
• Suez Environnement SA
• Thales Alenia Space France SAS
• MIDEME S.L.U.
• Adding Technology, S.A.
• EDINN Global S.A.
• Carbon Management Hungary
• HBCC
• ASTER Societa Consortile per Azioni
• Innovation-Bridge-Consulting
• Dave Green Energy Services
• Greenwatt Technology Ltd
• Novacem Ltd.
• Coopers International Associates
• Gradepoint
• Green Hill Sustainability Ltd
• QinetiQ
• Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.
• EVO Electric Ltd
• Plaxica Ltd.
• Mycologix Ltd.
• Planetary Skin Institute
• Fondation de Cooperation Scientifique Campus Paris Saclay
• L’Association pour le developpement du pôle de compétitivité Advancity
• Stichting Dienst Landbouw Kundig Onderzoek
• The Province of Utrecht
• Dirección General de Obras Públicas
• Asociación Agrupación Marmol Innovación
• Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea
• Federación Valenciana de Empresarios de la Construcción
• Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas
• Valencian Federation of Cities and Provinces
• Stichting Historie der Techniek
• Birmingham City Council
• Birmingham Science Park - Aston Ltd
• Imperial Innovations Ltd.

Climate change has no respect for borders and so do Climate-KIC activities not halt at European borders. Many of the Climate-KIC innovations arise from regional or national initiatives and will have a true direct or indirect global impact on climate change adaptation and mitigation and economies worldwide.