Part of creating these laptops was to use the traditional Nepali crafts and skills to build a new technology based product, to reveal how their traditional crafts can adapt and evolve to suite current markets and trends.
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Part of creating these laptops was to use the traditional Nepali crafts and skills to build a new technology based product, to reveal how their traditional crafts can adapt and evolve to suite current markets and trends.
Dutch weather anchor Reinier van den Berg is asking Climate-KIC students across Europe to come up with innovative solutions to extreme droughts caused by climate change. Van den Berg, a regular fixture on Dutch national TV, challenges the students in this video clip where he explains the causes of extreme droughts and forecasts the possible corresponding scenarios for transport, forest fires, agriculture and access to drinking water. The climatologist is scheduled to deliver a Climate-KIC SPARK! lecture on how to deal with the future consequences of climate change in Europe on 3 March 2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. During the three weeks leading up to the event, participants are asked to come up with solutions which will be presented on the day. See our website for more information: www.climate-kic.org
It is the first time that Climate-KIC has made an animated video. In under two minutes it highlight the activities that we do and inspires those who are more familiar with us and our work.
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Most PhD students try to perfect a way of describing their research in a few sentences. These ‘elevator pitches’ (cringe) come in useful when meeting new people at seminars, conferences or the pub. My own little snippet is this: dust from the Sahara fertilises the Amazon rainforest.
http://climatesnack.com/2014/01/02/saharan-dust-the-amazons-fertiliser/#more-1555
Climate-KIC Community Newsletter: January 2014
Jan 2014 Newsletter by climatekiceducation
Educating the new innovators
Fresh from Climate-KIC's two-day language of innovation course in Bologna, Italy, Giovanni Sogari blogs about the essence of a common language in bringing new ideas to today's climate change practices.
Organised by Climate-KIC’s Emilia-Romagna regional implementation centre (RIC) and Aster, the Italian consortium for innovation and technology transfer, the first “Language of innovation” course welcomed participants from across Europe last month.
Generally speaking the goal of the course was to develop communication skills and understand the importance of new start-up product and service ideas - which address specific and relevant climate change challenges - to penetrate the market and meet the needs of final users.
The introductory session initiated us to Climate-KIC’s broader aims of their business and education opportunities for a more sustainable society. We were presented with the vision of being part of its community among different actors (researchers, public administrators and business representatives), who despite working in separate fields and with distinctive roles, all deal with common causes: climate change challenges, economic sustainability and social innovation.
During the first day the participants had an intensive overview on the role of a clear and efficient communication by bridging and discussing our experiences with writing scientific papers, journalistic articles, presenting and pitching and executing a communication strategy.
On the second day all participants were involved in a working group competition in order to practice the main concepts which came out of the education sessions. The task was to face a specific problem in the climate change mitigation and adaptation issues.
Every group made a presentation where possible solutions were showed and discussed, followed by constructive feedback from experts.
The projects presented by the three groups included a mobile app to find out the environmental impact (LCA) of food products, new technologies to convert urban waste water into energy and the role of green roofs in the cities to reduce energy cost emissions.
This provided ample discussion points during the final session, when we networked with people from the RIC Emilia-Romagna and Pioneers into Practice programme in downtown Bologna.
An intriguing aspect of the two-day course was the spin-off “Climate Media Factory”, an interdisciplinary media lab initiated by the Film and Television University Konrad Wolf and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. It made us understand the importance and the role new media plays in communicating sustainable practices to the public opinion, which fed into our discussions focusing in on the key factors which drive the change management process in today’s business world and transform new ideas into practice.
It has been a wonderful experience and I must say that academic research, public advisors and entrepreneurship seem like to have something in common: the language of innovation.
Giovanni Sogari holds an MSc in Food Science at Parma University and is currently in his last year as a PhD student at the University of Piacenza (Italy) where his main research activities focus on food economic issues and consumers’ behaviour towards environmentally friendly products. He writes for a weekly newspaper about the agrifood world and sustainability issues.
Keynote speakers during the two day intensive course were Dr. Sergio Pistoi, a science writer and consultant, Dr. Jürgen Kropp, professor in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Potsdam University, Andrea Bondi, Business and Innovation unit Manager at Trento RISE, Arianna Cecchi, Climate-KIC-RIC Project Manager in Bruxelles, Carolina Mateo of Istituto Valenciano de la Edificacion (IVE) and Daniela Sani, Climate KIC-RIC Innovation Manager.
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Climate-KIC Student stories: Canada Calling
Climate-KIC Student stories:
Peter Ils-Boldt
TU Berlin
Business Engineering Climate-KIC EIT Master label.
Peter joined Climate-KIC's education programme in 2012 and recently applied for mobility funding to undertake master's thesis research at McGill University, Canada.
He answers our questions about his experiences there where he studied the climate impact of BRIC economies and the challenges of the supply side of carbon based energy resources.