Published 17 October 2017 Are you an entrepreneur within the circular economy or do you simply have a brilliant idea? Enter our Urban Challenge and bring your idea to life in the Circular Economy Hub South Harbour! In collaboration with Climate-KIC, The Integrated Urban Renewal Initiative of the South Harbour (the Municipality of Copenhagen) now invites citizens, students, entrepreneurs, local org

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-challenge-circular-economy-hub-south-harbour - 2025-02-19

Published 17 October 2017 Climate-KIC’s Climate Innovation Summit is Europe’s leading event connecting city representatives, policymakers, businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics and more to share best practice and create the opportunities to scale-up the solutions that accelerate climate action. This year’s summit is endorsed by the Fijian COP23 Presidency, and will take place under t

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-innovation-summit-2017-milan - 2025-02-19

Published 7 November 2017 Climathon is an annual 24 hour hackathon for climate solutions. The format was launched by Climate-KIC 2015 and has spread rapidly across the globe. In 2017, 104 cities participated in 6 continents, all at the same time 27 October, 10:00 to 10:00 the following day. Lund University organized Climathon in Lund 2017 together with Lund Municipality and Kraftringen. This was t

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2017 - 2025-02-19

Published 14 November 2017 Greenhouse is Climate-KICs pre-incubation program for early stage entrepenurship projects. please read more about the program in the attached flyer. Please read more about the program in this flyer.

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Published 16 November 2017 Here is a video recording from the panel debate on Health, food and water – The need for innovations and new strategies in a changing climate that we organised in connection to the IPCC meeting in Malmö 23-27/10 2017.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-sparks-lecture-health-food-and-water-need-innovations-and-new-strategies-changing - 2025-02-19

Published 28 November 2017 We had a photographer, Martin Olson, present at Climathon in Lund 2017. We wanted to share some of the pictures from this event with you.You can see them At Flickr web site it is also possible to see the pictures from the other 6 Climathons that were held in the Nordics this yearFlickr web site 

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/great-pictures-climathon-lund - 2025-02-19

Published 9 January 2018 Climate-KIC has released a number of important documents going forward 2018. There will be a common call for a number of different innovation and education projects at the 2 of March. Climate-KIC has released uppdated thematic priorities for 2018. Digging in to Climate-KIC theory it may be of interest to read the new Theory of Change document that has just been released.Al

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-documents-2018 - 2025-02-19

Published 10 January 2018 All calls for proposals in Climate-KIC will be gathered to three dates during 2018. One of the news for 2018 is that all calls (innovation and education) will be gathered at three specific dates during the year. This is great in itself because it makes things much easier. What is more important however is that there will also be dates (2 months in advance) when the call d

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/common-dates-calls-proposal-climate-kic-during-2018 - 2025-02-19

Published 14 February 2018 The Greenhouse Project has now restarted with four new exciting Projects. The four projects are:SOLEA Azotea Gardener that introduce a clever, efficient and easy vegetable growing method combined with the cultural richness of traditional handicraft and kitchen gardening. It is a simple hydroponioc technique that gives high yield of high quality products with minimum effo

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/four-new-greenhouse-projects-lund-accepted - 2025-02-19

Published 19 February 2018 Enjay is a rising star among the Climate-KIC Startup Accelerator companies. Read more about the latest developments. Enjay is developing a heat pump that can reuse the heat in exhaust air from restaurant kitchens. Up until now, this heat has been wasted. Reuse has not been possible due to the large amounts of fat and soot that comes with the airflow. Regular Heat pumps q

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/things-are-going-well-enjay - 2025-02-19

Published 19 February 2018 Things are going well for Climate-KIC startup Vultus. Sydsvenskan published a good article about the Company Read about Vultus at Sydsvenskan web pageGreat reading about a very interesting company.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/sydsvenskan-article-about-vultus - 2025-02-19

Published 23 February 2018 How can we adapt farming to an uncertain future? Could the answer be Climate Smart Agriculture? Find out with this free online course developed by University iof Reading with support from Climate-KIC. Climate-KIC supports different online education modules with content provided from the partners. In this case the University of Reading has been responsible for the content

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/future-farming-exploring-climate-smart-agriculture-online-education - 2025-02-19

Published 17 April 2018 During the Nordic Clean Energy Week in May, EIT Climate-KIC is inviting 60 young people to a Clean Energy Hack. Starting on 22 May, future change makers will during three days using their knowledge, insights and creativity to find solutions to climate challenges faced by international cities like Singapore and Hamilton. The best solutions will be honoured at the Sustainable

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/clean-energy-hack - 2025-02-19

Published 17 April 2018 Bioenergy is the largest form of renewable energy worldwide. It actually generates more energy than wind, solar and hydropower combined. In the coming decades a huge increase in demand of biomass for energy purposes is expected. Where will this biomass come from and what are the impacts of this increased usage? Is this a threat to biodiversity? Will it lead to food shortage

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/debate-bioenergy-what-are-possibilities-and-trade-offs - 2025-02-19

Published 1 June 2018 Lund University is part of the core team for Climate-KICs latest Flagship programme, eCircular, aiming to crack down on plastic waste and radically reduce the use of plastic materials. The project aims to explore and use innovative digital tools to improve plastics waste prevention. This can, for example, include blockchain solutions for improved market transparency, data ana

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/ecircular-flagship-catalysing-switch-circular-economy-through-plastic-waste-prevention - 2025-02-19

Published 4 June 2018 In connection to the Nordic Clean Energy Week in Malmö and the International Energy Ministerial Meeting in Malmö and Copenhagen, Lund University and Climate-KIC hosted a panel discussion with leading researchers and other experts on the topic of bioenergy. The Debate was held as a Climate-KIC Sparks! Lecture. Bioenergy is the largest form of renewable energy worldwide. It act

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/bioenergy-movie - 2025-02-19

Published 20 July 2018 foto: Christine Singbrant In July 2018 we are hosting a Climate-KIC Journey Summer school in Lund. On Monday the 16/7 we were visiting the ICOS station in Hyltemossa and Radio Kristianstad made a short interview and article. Read the article and listen to the interview at Sveriges Radios web page

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-summerschool-field-trip-and-radio - 2025-02-19

Published 12 September 2018 Climate-KICs Autumn call have now opened. You may apply for financing of innovation projects and education activities within the area Climate-KICs Impact Goals. The call is for different types of projects: Pathfinder                        – up to 100 000 Euro with at least 20% co-financePartner Accelerator        – up to 100 000 Euro with at least 20% co-financeDemonst

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/call-open - 2025-02-19

Published 27 September 2018 Increased plastic recycling and/or reduced usage of plastic materials is crucial to reach set environmental and climate targets. How can plastic waste better be used as a resource and can digitalisation help?Projections show a doubling of plastic usage in the coming decades. Can this development be avoided? Could we instead aim for lower consumption of plastics?What are

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/lowering-climate-impact-plastic-materials - 2025-02-19

Published 27 September 2018 It is time for a new Climathon in Lund! Climathon is a 24-hour hackathon for climate solutions that is taking place in over 100 cities all around the world on the 26-27th of October. We face a number of common serious climate challenges and we need to work together, beyond traditional boundaries, in order to find new innovative solutions. Climathon in Lund will focus on

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2018 - 2025-02-19