Innovation for climate action
EIT Climate-KIC es la principal plataforma de innovación en el ámbito europeo en cuanto al cambio climático, el medio ambiente y la sostenibilidad- EIT Climate-KIC, Kirsten Dunlop
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Transforming ideas into climate-positive businesses
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Transforming ideas into climate-positive businesses
We support innovation, whatever its source:
from large corporations, research institutes and public bodies through
to start-ups and individual entrepreneurs. Our incubator programme,
Accelerator, gives structure and assistance to start-ups and SMEs.
Through initiatives like our 24-hour hackathon Climathon, or our
cleantech ideas platform Climate Launchpad, we encourage fresh new
thinking from beyond the mainstream to build a movement of climate
action.
We work on an innovation model of knowledge exchange and technology transfer called the knowledge helix. In this model, there are flows of knowledge and experimental learning between government, academia, industry, and civil society, feeding back on strategy and decision-making to create socially accountable policies and practices. This model of innovation and knowledge exchange aims to:
Explore our Pathfinder, Demonstrator and Scaler programmes below and
find out how innovation investment can help your business or sector to
maximise its knowledge potential to become a market leader.
- https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/entrepreneurship/
Leveraging collective knowledge and expertise for systemic change We are a knowledge and innovation community: we bring together partners from the worlds of business, academia, and the public and non-profit sectors to create networks of expertise, through which innovative products, services and systems can be developed, brought to market and scaled up for impact. Through our convening power, EIT Climate-KIC finds and supports transformational innovation that can lead to systemic change.
- https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/research-innovation/
Research and Innovation
EIT Climate-KIC is uniquely placed to overcome the challenges of bringing climate-focused innovation to market.We work on an innovation model of knowledge exchange and technology transfer called the knowledge helix. In this model, there are flows of knowledge and experimental learning between government, academia, industry, and civil society, feeding back on strategy and decision-making to create socially accountable policies and practices. This model of innovation and knowledge exchange aims to:
- connect expertise with resources and know-how
- help sectors overcome information silos and gaps in knowledge and information
- help reduce the risk associated with innovation by being the first to invest and support
- nurture the most innovative ideas and apply scientific insight to commercial contexts
The knowledge helix
https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/research-innovation/
Transforming ideas into climate-positive businesses
We support innovation, whatever its source:
from large corporations, research institutes and public bodies through
to start-ups and individual entrepreneurs. Our incubator programme,
Accelerator, gives structure and assistance to start-ups and SMEs.
Through initiatives like our 24-hour hackathon Climathon, or our
cleantech ideas platform Climate Launchpad, we encourage fresh new
thinking from beyond the mainstream to build a movement of climate
action.
Stimulating the energy and enthusiasm of entrepreneurs to lead the charge with new climate-positive business models is a powerful way to address climate change across sectors and systems. We identify, support and invest in entrepreneurs through every stage of innovation, helping them move from initial concepts, through testing and demonstration to achieve commercial scale.
Our programmes have supported more than 2,000 start-ups, making the EIT Climate-KIC start-up community one of the largest worldwide. Our start-ups are leaders in their fields. In the last three years, almost 20 Climate-KIC backed entrepreneurs have been honoured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
Explore our ideas competitions Climate Launchpad and Climathon, and business incubation programmes Greenhouse and Accelerator below.
https://www.climate-kic.org/who-we-are/making-an-impact/
Stimulating the energy and enthusiasm of entrepreneurs to lead the charge with new climate-positive business models is a powerful way to address climate change across sectors and systems. We identify, support and invest in entrepreneurs through every stage of innovation, helping them move from initial concepts, through testing and demonstration to achieve commercial scale.
Our programmes have supported more than 2,000 start-ups, making the EIT Climate-KIC start-up community one of the largest worldwide. Our start-ups are leaders in their fields. In the last three years, almost 20 Climate-KIC backed entrepreneurs have been honoured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
Explore our ideas competitions Climate Launchpad and Climathon, and business incubation programmes Greenhouse and Accelerator below.
- https://www.climate-kic.org/programmes/entrepreneurship/
Making an impact
The global community needs giant leaps forward to avoid catastrophic climate change. Staying within a 2 °C rise in warming demands radical changes to the way we use natural resources, materials and energy, to our built environment, our mobility, or the way we grow and consume food.
Our vision is for a prosperous, inclusive, climate-resilient society
founded on a net zero-carbon, circular economy. This is a new
climate-conscious economy, where finance flows to green projects and
activities, and where motivated people are empowered with the skills and
capacity they need to take action.
This can only be achieved through wholesale systemic change – change that encompasses not just the technical and material, but regulation, governance structures, values and mindsets.
Guided by the Paris Agreement, our advisors and our community, Climate-KIC has identified cities, land use and manufacturing as the three major systems, where, if change were triggered wholesale and emissions reduced, would have the most potential in realising a climate-resilient society and net-zero carbon economy.
Our approach is to carve out space for experimentation by piloting, testing and scaling. We learn from these pilots by observing the change and recalibrating our approach in response to our insights.
This can only be achieved through wholesale systemic change – change that encompasses not just the technical and material, but regulation, governance structures, values and mindsets.
The systems we need to change
Climate-KIC works on transformative, systemic innovation that involves many connected innovations developing in parallel to trigger a shift in the system. We aim to take good ideas, products or services from niche to mainstream to reach a tipping point and create maximum impact.Guided by the Paris Agreement, our advisors and our community, Climate-KIC has identified cities, land use and manufacturing as the three major systems, where, if change were triggered wholesale and emissions reduced, would have the most potential in realising a climate-resilient society and net-zero carbon economy.
Our approach is to carve out space for experimentation by piloting, testing and scaling. We learn from these pilots by observing the change and recalibrating our approach in response to our insights.
Theory of Change
We are working along pathways to produce the outcomes and
impacts needed in these three major systems by 2030. These impacts will
help get us on track with avoiding dangerous climate change. These
pathways are consistent with the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals set in 2015. They are:Impact goals
Area of Focus |
Impact Goal |
Urban Transitions |
1. Promote retrofit and decentralised energy 2. Create green, resilient cities 3. Accelerate clean urban mobility |
Sustainable Land Use |
4. Make agriculture climate-smart 5. Transform food systems 6. Nurture forests in integrated landscapes |
Sustainable Production Systems |
7. Recast materials production 8. Reduce industry emissions 9. Reboot regional economies |
Decision Metrics and Finance |
10. Mainstream climate in financial markets 11. Democratise climate risk information 12. Foster bankable green assets in cities |
https://www.climate-kic.org/who-we-are/making-an-impact/
La principal plataforma de innovación en el ámbito europeo en cuanto al cambio climático
En este sentido, la CEO de EIT Climate-KIC expuso que trabajan en
proyectos muy diferentes, para resolver problemas de ciudades que no han
sido diseñadas para vivir con gran concentración de población, que
están cerca del mar, con riesgo de inundaciones, o que no están
preparadas para soportar temperaturas de 40 grados y tienen un riesgo
muy elevado de sequía o falta de agua.
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Actualmente, EIT Climate-KIC
es la principal plataforma de innovación en el ámbito europeo en cuanto
al cambio climático, el medio ambiente y la sostenibilidad. Cuenta con
una red de oficinas en 28 países, entre ellos España, y más de 400
partners entre empresas, gobiernos, universidades y centros de
investigación para ayudar a la emprendeduría en la transición hacia la
adaptación y la mitigación de los efectos de la crisis climática.
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En España, EIT Climate-KIC está desarrollando proyectos en diferentes
lugares. En el puerto de Valencia, ciudad donde se encuentra la sede de
EIT Climate-KIC Spain; en Andalucía, impulsando la desalinización para
hacer frente a la escasez de agua; o en la ciudad de Mondragón, en el
País Vasco, haciendo una apuesta por reconvertir la industria del acero
en energías renovables bajo la batuta del movimiento cooperativo y de
una nueva gobernanza basada en el principio de la comunidad.
En Málaga, precisamente, se están construyendo los primeros trenes de
gran alta velocidad ‘hyperloop’, que circularán a más de mil kilómetros
por hora y están concebidos como una alternativa al tráfico aéreo para
cubrir grandes distancias dentro de Europa. Barcelona ha sido elegida
por la Unión Europea para acoger Knowledge and Innovation Community
(KIC), encargada de desarrollar las innovaciones en movilidad urbana al
menos hasta el 2026. Esta plataforma contará con una financiación de
1.600 millones de euros y se ubicará en una antigua fábrica en el
distrito 22 @ del Poblenou.
- https://www.bbva.com/es/la-innovacion-no-es-suficiente-necesitamos-una-profunda-transformacion-social/
- https://www.climate-kic.org/
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