1. Contact
Climate-KIC national centres French Centre:
Corinne Borel, Director, france@
German Centre:
Hans-Juergen Cramer, Director, germany@ UK Centre:
Richard Templer, Director, uk@
Swiss Centre:
Reto Largo, Director, switzerland@
Climate-KIC regions Climate-KIC Climate innovations for Europe
Dutch Centre:
Hero Prins, Director, netherlands@ Aled Thomas, Coordinator, ric@
climate-kic.org
European Network for
Climate Innovations
© Climate-KIC Communications 2011
The European consortium Climate KIC during its four-years’ pilot phase
Knowledge and Innovation with approx. 80 million Euros; project
Knowledge & Community (Climate-KIC) brings partners contribute additional 300
Innovation together private, public and academic million Euros.
partners with the aim to jointly
Community develop innovative technologies
Climate-KIC
and services that counteract the
adverse effects of climate change
and facilitate adaptation – on national
and global scales. Climate-KIC also Knowledge &
Innovation
supports young innovators and Community
entrepreneurs through educational Climate-KIC
training and venture incubation. The
European Union is funding Climate-

2. Stimulating Innovation in Europe The Climate-KIC Community
Climate-KIC develops innovations, which have a true, sustainable impact on the Climate-KIC creates a vibrant network of partners
Entrepreneurs
changing climate, economy and society. In close collaboration with Europe’s that share the same concerns: to solve today’s
best universities, corporations and public partners, Climate-KIC fosters the grand challenges and at the same time boost
development of innovative products and services, patenting and innovations and economic growth. As a member
entrepreneurship. In addition, Climate-KIC supports optimization of existing value of the Climate-KIC community you will gain
chain configurations through innovations at process and technology levels. access to the knowhow of European experts
and benefit from project-based investment and
entrepreneurship support.
Innovations
The Netherlands Germany
Delft Technical University, Potsdam Institute for Climate
Utrecht University, Impact Research PIK, GFZ
Wageningen University German Research Centre for
Geosciences, Technische
Universität Berlin, Forschungs-
zentrum Jülich GmbH
West Midlands
Lower Silesia
UK
Imperial College London
Hessen
France
Commissariat à l‘énergie
atomique et aux énergies
alternatives CEA, l’Institut
Pathfinder
national de la recherche
agronomique INRA, Central Hungary
L’Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Switzerland
UVSQ
ETH Zurich
Valencia region Emilia Romagna
Climate-KIC National Centre Core Business Partner: Core Public Partner:
Regional Innovation and
Implementation Centre
Fig. 1 European network of Climate-KIC with core partners from academia (blue boxes), Fig. 2 Climate-KIC network, themes and value propositions
industry and the public (logos in the footer)
Education
EIT – a new Institution of the European Union Join the Community
The European Union established the European Institute of Innovation and Become an active member of the Climate-KIC
Technology (EIT) as key driver of European excellence, innovation and growth. community and join the European network for
In December 2009, the EIT launched Climate-KIC together with two other climate innovations.
Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). Contact us!