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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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Innovating in complexity: From single-point solutions to directional systems innovation
What was the big bang that ushered in the “Industrial Revolution” in 1771? The opening of a cotton spinning mill in the village of Cromford, Derbyshire by the English inventor Richard Arkwright. It was the world’s first industrial installation powered by flowing water. The “Industrial Revolution” was the first of five technological revolutions in modern history that...
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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories — 22 February
How does a paper-based battery work? Which country is planning to build a 26,910-square-foot floating solar farm? And, how can a solar fuel reactor work at night? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. New paper batteries can be discarded with zero ecological impact Barcelona-based Fuelium is developing batteries made...
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France Shatters Green Bonds Record: This Week’s 10 Biggest Climate Stories
The 31 January 2017 edition of our weekly State Of The Planet press review with some of the latest climate science, innovation and policy headlines.
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Fossil Fuels to Peak Within 3 Years: This Week’s 10 Biggest Climate Stories
The 7 February 2017 edition of our weekly State Of The Planet press review with some of the latest climate science, innovation and policy headlines.
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