Innovation boost to tackle Climate Change
EU launches "Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (Climate-KIC)"
While Heads of State are negotiating to reach a substantial climate agreement in Copenhagen, the EU is stepping forward to take the lead in developing innovations to tackle climate change. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a groundbreaking new research, innovation and education initiative that aims to answer the various challenges of climate change. A pan-European consortium encompassing sixteen world class partners from academia, and from the private and public sectors, will implement this new and unique network.
The new "Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (Climate-KIC)" is a major initiative of the EIT. The Climate-KIC program brings together the expertise of world class partners in a shared effort to make a step-change in Europe's innovation capacity to meet the climate change challenge in the years to come and to prepare for a new low-carbon society. It will foster interactions between European research, education and business innovation. The aim is to create a generation of climate change entrepreneurs who will have the multidisciplinary skills to develop economically, environmentally and socially sustainable approaches to coping with the effects of global warming.
Quelle: ETH Life [1]
Further information:
> European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
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> Climate-KIC [3]