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The Journey Summer School visited Lund University for ten days this August. We first meet the group of 40 students in Älmhult (coming with boat/buss from Tallin). The students represented 23 different nationalities from several continents. In Älmhult we treated them with a rainy (vegan) barbeque and a nice sleepover at Sjöstugans Camping. The next day we had a full day at the IKEA Museum. Installe
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/journey-lund-2019 - 2025-11-07
What will everyday life in a fossil free society be like? Let´s find out together! By the year 2050 the world must have reached net zero Co2 emissions in order to reach the climate goal of 1,5 degrees global warming. Today 80% of all energy generation consists of fossil fuels (coal oil and gas). What will the fossil free society of 2050 look like, in Sweden and in the rest of the world? Climate-KI
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/fantastic-fossil-free-futures - 2025-11-07
Applications for Climate-KICs Climate innovation summerschool "the Journey 2020" has now opened! Applications for Climate-KICs Climate innovation summerschool "the Journey 2020" has now opened and will be open until 17/2. PROLONGED TO 1/3 The Jouney is four weeks long and courses will be held in a early period in July as well as in a later period in August. In each period a number of courses will
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/journey-summer-school-2020 - 2025-11-07
It is going well for many of the companies in Climate-KICs Nordic Accelerator. One of the success stories is Swedish Algae Factory that has just secured 53 MSEK in funding. Swedish Algae Factory extracts a unique nanoporous silica material from algae. The material has exceptional properties when it comes to light as well as the ability to absorb or release particles depending on the surrounding en
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/swedish-algae-factory-secures-funding - 2025-11-07
The biannual Nordic Accelerator intake boot camp was hosted on the 5-6 of March this year. Twenty founders gathered in Malmö to take part in a series of thought-provoking workshops and finally pitched to qualify into the first stage of our Accelerator programme. Five workshops and twenty pitches later, the panel and the Nordic Accelerator team reached the final decision. The selection process was
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/spring-arrivals-nordic-accelerator - 2025-11-07
Climathon is a global hackathon for climate solutions that is run in over 100 locations globaly each autumn. In 2020 we will host a Climathon multiple locations around Skåne. The theme of this years Climathon is Food and Climate. Due to the Covid-19 situation we have made a lot of changes to this years format. Climathon will not be 24 hours as we have done previous years but spread out over a five
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-skane-2020 - 2025-11-07
Would you like to: • Find out more about sustainable mobility • Learn how to run solution-oriented innovation activities • Work together in a diverse group of people • Win amazing prices • And have fun while making an impact Then come and join us! Climathon is a global climate action program that takes place in 100+ cities around the world, with a hackathon at its core. We would like to invite you
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2021 - 2025-11-07
Climathon is a hackathon for climate solution that is organized simultaneously in over 100 city’s all around the world. Climate-KIC@LU organized Climathon in Lund on the 25-29th of October. The 5 day event was a great success with over 50 participants. All most as many experts, staff, jury members, workshop leaders and others helped the participants out in creating the climate solutions of the fut
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2021-0 - 2025-11-07
Climathon is a hackathon for climate solution that is organized simultaneously in over 100 city’s all around the world. Climate-KIC@LU organized Climathon in Lund on the 7-11th of November. The 5 day event was a great success with over 70 participants. A large group of experts, staff, jury members, workshop leaders and others helped the participants out in creating the climate solutions of the fut
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2022 - 2025-11-07
On the 8th of November Climate-KIC held a large Pan-European event in Frankfurt. Here is a short report about this event. Climate-KIC innovation Summit Frankfurt 8/11The event started off with a talk on the urgency of action to meet the threats of climate change with action by John Schellnhuber CBE, Founder/Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Most of the audience would b
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/report-climate-kic-innovation-summit-frankfurt-811 - 2025-11-07
On the 29th of November there was an Urban Transition Workshop in Malmö hosted by Climate-KIC. The workshop was held at Malmö Live and was well visited by relevant local, national and international actors. People from research, public administration and academia were represented.Here is an article from Climate-KIC about the event.Here are some pictures from the event.
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-transition-workshop-malmo-2911 - 2025-11-07
Enjay is one of the companies from Lund University that has joined the Climate-KIC Start-up Accelerator. We made a visit to their office in Stävie to find out more about what they do. Enjay – Recovering heat and saving moneyEnjay addresses a need that probably few people would be pondering about - the heat in the outgoing air from restaurant kitchen ventilation. Jesper and Nils at Enjay have both
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/enjay-filtration-climate-kic-accelerator-company-lund-university - 2025-11-07
From the 1 of November there is a new Climate-KIC project coordinator at the Lund University working actively with involving research at the University in the different Climate-KIC initiatives. During the first months the position will be held temporarily by Olof Blomqvist. Here is a short interview with Olof. Interview with Olof Blomqvist, Climate-KIC Project Coordinator at Lund UniversityWhat ar
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/new-climate-kic-coordinator-lund-university - 2025-11-07
During 2016 there has been some involvement in different Climate-KIC activities at Lund University. Here are short descriptions of the different Projects. AcceleratorIn 2016 the following activities have been taking place at Lund University within the Climate-KIC.LU Innovation is the contact point at the university for Start-ups and entrepreneurs wanting to engage in Climate-KIC activities and thi
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-activities-lund-university-2016 - 2025-11-07
The second Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day was held at DTU Skylab on the 27th of January 2017. From preparations all the way until the finishing drinks, the event was in every way a great success. No less than 59 idea suggestions were submitted in advance. Out of this great pool of ideas, a little more than a third (23) was selected and allowed to pitch at the event. The thought with Ideation Day
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-nordic-ideation-day - 2025-11-07
Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private partnership tackling climate change through innovation, today announces the appointment of Anders Wijkman as Chair of the Governing Board of Association Climate-KIC, with immediate effect. Wijkman succeeds John Schellnhuber, who is stepping down having successfully served as Chair for six years, the maximum tenure of two terms. Schellnhuber was appoint
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-announces-anders-wijkman-new-chair-governing-board - 2025-11-07
In early April we were informed that Lund University was awarded no less that two Climate-KIC Pathfinder Projects. Read more about the two awarded Projects here. An Auditing Tool for Climate Effective PackagingAssociate Professor Henrik Pålsson and Associate Professor Daniel Hellström of the Packaging Logistics department of Lund University was awarded a Pathfinder project from Climate-KIC. The pr
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/two-climate-kic-pathfinder-projects-awarded-lund-university - 2025-11-07
Here is a video from Climate-KICs Ideation Day at DTU 27 January. Look out for dates for a possible second Ideation Day late autumn 2017.
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/video-ideation-day-27-january-2017 - 2025-11-07
The Swedish cities of Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv are looking for creative partners with innovative solutions that can be involved in a new venture, to convert waste heat into urban food or other biological production through an Open Innovation Competition. Clean residual heat emitted from a diverse range of sources – from single refrigerators to industrial sites – represents a waste of both
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-food-residual-heat-open-innovation-competition - 2025-11-07
Did you miss the Climate-KIC Workshop 16/5? We gathered most of the presentations so that you can seethem here. Climate-KIC WorkshopProgramme 13.00–16.00:13.00–13.10 Welcome and introduction13.10–13.35 Innovations and climate change – how far can it take us? Helena Tillborg, Kraftringen13.35–14.05 Climate KIC – How to access possibilities, funding and network. Henrik Söndergaard and Mikkel Trym, C
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-workshop-165 - 2025-11-07
