Climate-KIC UK & Ireland. September 14 icentrum Claire Spencer

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1 Climate-KIC UK & Ireland t September 14 icentrum Claire Spencer

2 Climate-KIC - background Created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Part of the EU s Horizon 2020 programme with annual budget of approx. 80m Climate-KIC supports bringing innovation to market quickly by working with partners from across Europe something they couldn t do on their own Climate-KIC is now the EU s largest public private partnership addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation

3 Where we operate We work across Europe, with offices in 18 European locations

4 Our partner community 193 partners 50% 25% 25% business academic public & not for profit 6 major centres 18 countries

5 Vision, Mission and Strategy Refresh What We Do We address climate change across our four priority themes t a pan-european geographic footprint

6 Vision, Mission and Strategy Refresh What We Do t

7 Vision, Mission and Strategy Refresh What We Do t

8 Ideator Objective: Refine ideas to create innovation opportunities Partner Engagement Model: Participation in events, workshops, meetings and experimental formats for ideation and co-creation Partner calls for Pathfinder projects three times a year RFPs to host Climate Launchpad locations RFPs to deliver experimental ideation formats eg. competitions, online tools Main Climate-KIC Contact: Geographic Directors and their teams

9 Accelerator Objective: Accelerate innovation opportunities through business model validation Partner Engagement Model: Partner calls for Partner Accelerator projects, three times per year Calls for hosting Start-up Accelerators multiannually Calls for Masterclasses Main Climate-KIC Contact: Geographic Directors and their teams

10 Demonstrator Objective: Demonstrating that the innovation works in context and can be deployed at scale Partner Engagement Model: Participation in pre-call collaboration and cocreation meetings and workshops Partner call for Demonstrator projects, currently once per year Requests for Demonstrator support eg. coaching, expert help Main Climate-KIC Contact: Theme Directors and their teams

11 Scaler Objective: Speed-up the achievement of scale, where Climate-KIC can help Partner Engagement Model: Participation in events, workshops, meetings to identify scaling opportunities Open calls for structured scaler activities Requests for scaler support e.g. brokering connections Main Climate-KIC Contact: Theme Directors and their teams

12 Education Supporting thematic innovation framework Contextual and applied learning Entrepreneurial perspective Mobility of human capital Knowledge, skills and competencies Systemic, inter-disciplinary Community development

13 Business Education Objective To develop innovation/entrepreneurship competencies of Climate-KIC community and to valorise new knowledge Partner Engagement Model Thought leadership, co-design thematically focused programmes Co-create knowledge assets and market research Offer quality assurance, branding, implementation, delivery capacity Send participants/speakers Rolling call for RFP Main Climate-KIC Contact Education Director

14 Pioneers into Practice: professional mobility Low Carbon Economy professionals from education, research, enterprise and administration join and put into practice their expertise to create new products and services in the field of the climate change One month placements in different European regions Participants receive systems innovation training through bespoke workshops Supported mentoring programme Hosting a Pioneer was challenging, but ultimately worth the work. We also enrolled a member of my team as a Pioneer, and both of his placements created new long-term business links for Arup. It was a tremendous learning experience for us, and one we will be embracing in the future.

15 Online Education Objective Content dissemination of Climate-KIC knowledge and widening outreach. Partner Engagement Model Thought leadership Co-develop thematically focused content/assets Offer quality assurance and branding Rolling call for RFP Main Climate-KIC Contact Education Director

16 Graduate Education Objective Talent enhancement of Europe by developing transferrable skills and innovation/entrepreneurship competencies of graduates Partner Engagement Model Complement higher education system through EIT Label Implementation and delivery capacity Offer quality assurance and branding Send participants/speakers Main Climate-KIC Contact Education Director

17 Summary A strong, open and engaged eco-system of activities and partners across UK & Ireland A continuous programme of support for innovation, entrepreneurship and learning Annual investment of + 10m of EU funding in the UK & Ireland with additional co-funding and complementary funding from partner Physical offices and teams in London, Birmingham and Dublin Seeking to broaden Climate-KIC s footprint in UK & Ireland by developing a network of innovation clusters focused on climate challenges recently commissioned study to support this work KIC-tender-Audit-of-climate-related-innovation-networks-andclusters-in-UK.pdf