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Launch of Climate-KIC‘s first online learning course
Climate-KIC is proud to announce the start of its first free action-based massive open online course (MOOC) based on renewable energy innovation (REI). 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...
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Prestigious award for BTA Living Lab
Climate-KIC’s Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) is proud to announce that one of its Living Labs, the ETH House of Natural Resources, has won the prestigious Schweighofer Prize. The Schweighofer Prize is an important innovation award for the European Forest-Based Sector and was awarded for the 7th time in Vienna. Over 700 visitors from 41 countries...
start-ups
IndieWatt
IndieWatt substitutes small fossil fuel generators (up to 12 kW) with renewable energy production and battery storage. IndieWatt supplies microgrids day and night with 230/400V AC for electric motors, light etc. IndieWatt is mobile and can be towed to any remote place with road access. By charging the battery directly with DC from solar panels,...
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EIT Award winners transform “great ideas into new, effective solutions for Europe”
“This year’s EIT Award winners are excellent examples of how to transform great ideas into new, effective solutions for Europe”, said Martin Kern, Interim Director at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT Awards honour Europe’s rising stars of innovation and entrepreneurship. “They are showing us new ways to innovate and I am...
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3 UK Climate-KIC start-ups shortlisted for New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015
Three UK Climate-KIC start-ups have been shortlisted for the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015. The competition culminates in a ceremony in London tonight (29 April) and recognises “those who play a pivotal role in the shaping of the future green energy and cleantech industries.” The shortlisted Climate-KIC start-ups are Open Utility, Desolenator and Upside. Deal of the Year...
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Six million euros for German start-up Thermondo
German Climate-KIC start-up Thermondo, pioneer of the digital revolution in the heat solution and installation market, raised capital from new and existing investors from the energy and digital economy. Holtzbrinck Ventures and Rocket Internet became shareholders of Thermondo. The two new investors joined E.ON, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and Grey Corp. All investors had participated in the...
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Lumo
Lumo is a French crowdfunding website which enables citizens to invest directly in renewable energy projects. Lumo works with energy projects that generate electricity using established renewable technologies like wind, solar or hydro. Those energy projects are selected according to a charter which guaranties their sustainability, their territorial anchoring, their transparency & their contribution to...
start-ups
Enit Systems
Enit Systems is a spin-off company of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg. The company develops and produces customizable monitoring and control systems for decentralized energy systems to enable transparency and intelligent control. Customers are energy intensive commercial and industrial companies as well as operators and direct marketers. The technology “OpenMUC”...
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Water and Energy for Climate Change – Experimental garden for the industry
In Europe a large part of waste heat is lost and discharged via cooling water into surface water (once through coolers) and the atmosphere (cooling towers) with large emissions of Greenhouse Gas, and lost in water, electricity and chemicals as a consequence. In the Climate-KIC pathfinder project Water and Energy for Climate Change (WE4CC-I) (2012/2013)...
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#Journey2014 week 9: The end of the Journey
This week #Journey2014 participants pitched their business plans in Poland and the Netherlands during the final week of the Climate-KIC summer school. Time for us to look back at week 9, the final week of the Journey. Climate-KIC’s #Journey2014 programme includes 18 locations across Europe and is Climate-KIC’s largest climate innovation summer school to date. Students journey...
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