Solveig Zophoniasdottir from Climate-KIC Nordic visited Sitra Lab's HERÄÄMÖ event on 29.1.2020.

1. Orchestrating ecosystems
Creating spaces for learning,
dialogue and sensemaking
@ClimateKIC @sollazophoniasd
Solveig Zophoniasdottir| Jan 2020

2. Solla: Climate-KIC – Process facilitation, coaching & Learning – Kaospilot – Mom of 2 – Enable humans + teams to thrive

3. Check In
Climate-KIC
Innovations
Collaboration
Stories from the field
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4. How am I arriving into today?
What am I curious about?
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5. Climate emergency is here and
demand is growing for climate action
that matches the scale and urgency
of the challenge.

6. What we bring to the climate challenge

7. Our 10-year track record in climate innovation
formal partners,
across 25 countries
400
investment attracted
to start-ups
>€1bn
full-time jobs created
since 2010
>2,300+
participants in our
education activities
44,000
climate-positive
start-ups incubated
1600+
climate funding
leveraged
€3.4bn+ new products
and services
595
total value of
funds managed
€550m+

8. Theory of change
Nurture
nature-based
solutions
Accelerate
sustainable
urban mobility
Make agriculture
climate-smart
Reform food
systems
Nurture forests
in integrated
landscapes
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Promote retrofit
and decentralised
energy
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Reboot regional
economies
Reduce industry
emissions
Build circular
material flows
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Foster bankable
green assets
in cities
Democratise
climate risk
information
Mainstream
climate in
financial markets
Innovation
Impacts

9. Systems innovation
A transformational service model

10. “
“Continuing to work through gradual,
incremental changes will not be enough.
What is needed now is a fundamental
transformation of economic, social and
financial systems to trigger exponential
increases in decarbonisation rates and
climate resilience.
Source: EIT Climate-KIC’s Transformation, in Time strategy document

11. Our Vision
A prosperous, inclusive,
climate-resilient society
with a circular net-zero
emissions economy
Our Mission
To catalyse systemic
change for climate action
Our Promise
Transformation in time,
through innovation

12. 10 years of experience has taught us that achieving the systemic
change we need requires a different order of innovation.
Incremental
Project finance model
Single projects and
incremental change
Siloed and fragmented activities,
often focused on technological
improvements
Transformational
Portfolio approach
Portfolio of connected innovation
projects that learn from each other
Wide appreciation of
change levers
System innovation

13. Innovation is essential.
But not as we have
been doing it. We need
innovation to
catalyse systemic
change.Connected
innovations…
…acting
simultaneously
…across
multiple levers
of change
….to trigger
massive leaps in
decarbonisation
and resilience.

14. Changing everything needs everyone. New partners join a diverse
network of change agents committed to collective action.
Corporates Start-ups Research & HE
City governments Regional governments National governmentsCivil society
2000+
organisations
made up of:

15. Sensemaking
and feedback loops
We generate actionable
intelligence to accelerate
learning about how to
achieve transformation at
scale. Feedback loops inform
policymaking and dynamic
management of innovation
options.
Understand and map
the systems challenge
We engage demand-side
challenge owners – city mayors,
regional leaders, government
ministers and CEOs of major
companies – to understand
ambition and needs, identify
constraints and secure intent
for transformational change.
Orchestrate
a portfolio
For each challenge, we build
and manage a portfolio of 30
– 100 connected innovation
projects, designed to address
leverage points identified in
earlier stages.
Define the
intervention strategy
We identify where and how
innovation can play a role in
catalysing change dynamics,
and start to design relevant
innovation ‘positions’.
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Our systems
innovation
methodology

16. learning
by doing
demand
led
portfolio
approach
Systems
innovation
principles
leverage
points

17. Learning by doing:
Deep demonstrations of a zero-
emissions, climate-resilient world

18. Earlier this year, EIT Climate-KIC
launched eight ‘Deep Demonstrations’
as a test bed environment for the ‘1.5-
consistent systems transitions’ called
for by the IPCC.

19. Deep
Demonstrations
Healthy,
Clean Cities
Resilient, Net-
Zero-Emissions
Maritime Hubs
Landscapes as
Carbon Sinks
Just Transitions
of Heavy
Industry Regions
Climate-friendly
Food Systems
and Diets
Circular,
Regenerative
Economies
Long-termism
Resilient
Regions
First wave Second wave
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20. “
“Deep demonstrations are intended as
inspirational examples of what is possible at
the level of whole systems when innovation
is orchestrated, collaborative and mission-
led. They represent the ‘growth edge’ of our
strategy for tackling climate change through
innovation.
Dr Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of EIT Climate-KIC

21. Healthy, Clean Cities
Cities face an enormous challenge in becoming
healthy places to live, while reaching net-zero
emissions in just a few years. EIT Climate-KIC is
working with the most ambitious mayors and
municipalities in Europe to design portfolios of
joined-up innovations capable of unlocking
wholesale transformation across all city systems –
from mobility to waste to energy to health and the
built environment.
A deep demonstration of…
About // Problem Owners // Designers

22. Niš Orléans Sarajevo Skopje Vienna
Leuven
Amsterdam
Madrid
Copenhagen
Malmö
Edinburgh
Maribor
Kraków
Milano
Križevci
Problem owners
We are working with an initial
cohort of fifteen city
governments across Europe
who have committed to
ambitious, system-wide change.
Healthy, clean cities
About // Problem Owners // Designers

23. Healthy, clean cities
About // Problem Owners // Designers
Designers
We are working with five
partners to design a portfolio
of interventions.
Material
Economics
Bankers without
Boundaries
Democratic
Society
Global Covenant
of Mayors
Dark Matters
Labs

24. Portfolio in Practice:
Composition and Sensemaking

26. EITClimate-KIC
BP2019

31. Creating Spaces for Collaboration
& Learning:

32. Collaboration?

33. Accelerating Learning
When operating with set of
connected interventions
that learn from each other

34. Ecosystems
Collaboration
Quality relationships
Great processes

35. What skills are then
important when it comes to
collaboration?

36. We cant impose our will on a system. We can
listen to what the systems tells us, and
discover how its properties and our values
can work together to bring something much
better than could ever be produced by our
will alone
-Donella Meadows, Dancing With Systems

37. Taking Collaboration seriously
Set intention and review intention again and again
Managing relationships continuously
Change on an organizational & Personal Level
Breathing – give oxygen to the changes needed
Basic skills are not so basic
Embrace the mess and shadow sides
Work with tools and methods but don’t forget about the humans

38. The success of an intervention
depends on the interior condition of
the intervener.
Bill O’Brien

39. Collaboration – our focus points
Focus on the practitioner mindset
Listening to learn
Empathy
What is outside is inside
Understanding how to hold space
Role modelling the behaviour
Commitment to learning and testing together

40. Reflections

41. What will I pay attention to in my
collaborations moving forward?
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42. THANK YOU!
@sollazophoniasd
solveig.zophoniasdottir:@climate-kic.org