Newsletter MSc & PhD Education NL

Newsletter MSc & PhD Education NL

March and April 2016 Spring Forward! For many going on the Journey will be the highlight of 2016. For those who already completed this intense programme this year's priority might be finding internship possibilities and research leads. And if you will graduate in next year, great job openings are probably what you are looking for. To better share this sort of information as well as to put you in closer contact with the wider Climate- KIC community a Facebook group for all labelled master and PhD students across Europe has now been set-up. Please search for Climate-KIC Label Students' or click here. While it will take some time to get up and running, the more of us who use this group to share information the better a resource it will become. Should your future be on your mind, on Tuesday 19 April we invite you to the next SPARK!. Hosted by the Climate-KIC Cleantech Business Lounge at the recently constructed FabCity Campus in Amsterdam, during the SPARK! Gertjan de Werk will explain the ideas behind FabCity and give you a flavour of the fab things that will take place Java-island over the next few months. You will then be given the opportunity to meet with inventors who have great business ideas and are actively looking for entrepreneurial minds to bring their solutions to market. They will pitch their ideas and then it is up to you to let them know that your are interested in becoming part of their entrepreneurial team. Outside the Cleantech Business Lounge we encourage you to explore the whole of the FabCity programme and to meet as many people as possible. Also, in this month's newsletter read about this year's Climate-KIC PhD summer schools, the Cleantech Launchpad competition, alumni news, internships, a clarification about mobility guidelines, and find out where this year's Journeys will be located. Happy Spring! The Dutch Education Team SPARK! @ The CleanTech Business Lounge Tuesday April 19, FabCity, behind Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam Part of the official Europe by People programme to mark the Dutch presidency of the EU, FabCity is a temporary living lab for urban innovators. It is located on the west-end of Java-island between April and June. There city makers, students, scientists and locals will live and work to test new creative solutions to a myriad of metropolitan problems. The SPARK! will start at 19.00 with a talk from Gertjan de Werk, Associate Director at the LDE Centre for Sustainability. He will introduce the Innofest innitative. He will discuss with you how temporally deregulated spaces such as FabCity and music festivals can be reimagined by entrepreneurs as living labs to explore the most novel and even radical approaches to waste,

water, electricity and food. After the talk you have the opportunity to meet with several inventors invited by the CleanTech Business Lounge to pitch to you. Each has a great business ideas and are looking for entrepreneurial minds to bring their solutions to market. Let them know you are interested. If you and the inventor agree on a shared future, you could possibly choose to compete in this year's ClimateLaunchpad - Europe s largest cleantech business idea competition See the next segment for details how to enter. As it is a busy event, please don't forget to sign the attendance sheet in the entrance to the Cleantech Business Lounge so we have a record that you attended this SPARK!. To find out more about the inventors who will be present and to register your attendance (mandatory so the organisers know how many people to expect) please click here If you are not sure in which invention you are interested; no worries. Just fill in the application form and you can make your selection during the event. The SPARK is part of a wider Climate-KIC programme on April 19th.(see below). You are welcome to attend from 17.00 but the SPARK! part starts at 19.00 to give people time to arrive. Programme 17.00-17.30 Welcome and registration 17.30-19.00 Matchmaking Inventors - Future Entrepreneurs 19.00-19.15 SPARK talk by Gertjan de Werk 19.15-20.15 Business Propositions Pitches 20.15-21.00 Drinks/Explore FabCity Campus Should you not be able to attend please also send Gareth a message indicating why you will not be present. FabCity is located behind Pakhuis de Zwijger. From Amsterdam Centraal it is a fifteen minute walk or five minute tram ride (tram 26 direction IJburg). Directions here

ClimateLaunchpad 2016 Europe s largest cleantech business idea competition Does your business idea tackle climate change? And do you dream of becoming an entrepreneur? Join Climate- KIC s ClimateLaunchpad, your ticket to European and global success. We offer you a rousing ride to starting your own business: 2-day Business Boot Camp; 6 Coaching Sessions where you ll learn to find your target markets and turn your idea into a business; a chance to pitch your idea in front of renowned national and international juries. Europe s top-8 ideas win direct access to Climate-KIC Accelerator, the only EU business acceleration programme focused on cleantech commercialization. The top-3 of the European Final win 2,500 to 10,000. Are you up for it? You can apply if you have a business idea about sustainability and you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur. Your idea can be about an all-out mind shift in urban mobility, a sustainable transition in the food chain or any other way to tackle climate change. Even if your idea is still on the back of a napkin, you re most welcome to join. Enter now: The competition is open in more than 25 countries. Check our website for key dates, submit your idea and let the games begin. Key dates: CLP Submission Deadline the Netherlands: May 9th CLP Boot camp: 26 & 27th May CLP National Final 24th of June ClimateLaunchpad is a Climate-KIC programme Climate-KIC creates opportunities for innovators to address climate changeand shape the world s next economy. Are you game? Apply today on www.climatelaunchpad.org

PhD Summer Schools! PhD Summer Schools For two weeks this summer join a community of changemakers and share your knowledge and skills to develop solutions to climate change issues. Our two-week Summer Schools have climate-related topics and take place in different European locations. Connecting PhD students from around the globe, the Summer Schools are hubs for new ideas with interdisciplinary approaches. Amsterdam-Bologna Smart Solutions for the Urban Metropole, PhD summer school on Urban Metabolism and Water Management. Date: 4-15 July 2016 Gothenburg PhD summer school on Sustainable Production Systems. Date: 15-26 August Frankfurt PhD summer school on Green Finance: Overcoming barriers to low-carbon investments. Date: 18-30 September Fees The PhD Summer School is an integral part of Climate-KIC s PhD programme, which means that fees are fully covered for Climate-KIC labelled PhD students. For all other participant the following fees apply: 500 for PhDs from Climate-KIC partner universities and EU citizens. 2000 for non-eu passport holder. Travel costs to and from the summer school are not included in the fees. Transfers during the summer school are however included, for example, Amsterdam to Bologna. Apply now! Please forward it to your university PhD colleagues who might be interested

Master Label Facebook Group Stay in touch! At long last a Facebook group had been created for all Climate-KIC label students. Please search for Climate-KIC Label Students' or click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1984221035135668/ Internships, jobs, SPARKs and others events and relevant news will be shared. Support Cool Start-ups from Alumni Fancy a roof with a micro house on top - check Cabin Spacey Working out of the Green Living Incubator in Berlin, Climate-KICers Simon Cabin Spacey Becker and Sebastian Dehling are looking to expand their amazingly named start-up Cabin Spacey. The company introduces a whole new genre to urban housing by attaching smart modular cabins to cities existing infrastructure - Rooftops, Parking Decks, Gable Walls, Temporary Lots. Give Simon and Sebastian a hand to achieve their dream by voting for Cabin Spacey in the smart urban pioneers ideas contest. Check out the other competition entrees and vote as many times as you can here Climate-KIC In The News Guardian Sustainable Business Awards Climate-KIC has been shortlisted in the Communicating Sustainability and Collaboration categories of the 2016 Guardian Sustainable Business Awards for our global Calculator project, and Climathon communications campaign. Read more about it and the judging process here

Internship with Elemental Water Makers Impact management of the implementation of a water installation in rural Cape Verde Elemental Water Makers (EWM) provides complete reverse osmosis systems driven by solar. wind and/or wave energy to enable affordable fresh water on-site. Our solutions solve fresh water scarcity. while only using the sea. sun. earth & wind. As a result of increasing fresh water scarcity and limited availability of fossil fuels. we came up with the solution that enables affordable fresh water from seawater or brackish water using only renewable energy. EWM was founded by Sid Vollebregt and Reinoud Feenstra in 2012 and is located in Delft. A video that explains the market and innovation can be seen here DESCRIPTION OF INTERNSHIP/RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT We are looking for a student to do an assignment. in the form of either university research or an internship. about the social impact of this installation. The village currently has water trucked from the main city and uses brackish groundwater. However. through the installation of EWM. local drinking water will be constantly available at lower costs. Still. the success of this project relies heavily in the acceptance and willingness of the local village. Therefore. we are looking for someone to advise us in our activities to allow smooth transition and operation. All aspects during construction and operation should be considered to have everyone fully enjoy the benefits of the new water supply. PLANNING Starting date: as soon as possible REQUIREMENTS Enthusiastic. independent and flexible profile required. We will party rely on your knowledge and execution of this assignment for the future of our company. This is a responsibility which should provide you with motivation. Because understanding of the local culture is important. Cape Verdean background/portuguese language skills are preferred. Do you want to be part in solving fresh water scarcity using only the sea. sun. earth and wind? Let us know! CONTACT DETAILS Sid Vollebregt. MSc. Managing director sid@elementalwatermakers.com www.el ementa Iwatermakers.com Elemental Water Makers B.V. Molengraaffsingel 12-14 2629 JD Delft. NL

Clarification to Mobility 2016 Individual Mobility Grants For 12 Weeks or Less As mentioned in the last newsletter, from January 1st 2016 there are new rules from the EIT mobility actions. These apply to master label students only. Labelled PhD candidates follow different mobility guidelines. For mobility actions with duration of up to and including 12 weeks the maximum amount that can be claimed with receipts for subsistence per month is now capped at 500 /month. Travel costs for one return economy airfare or train ticket will reimbursed on the basis of real cost when receipts are provided. The reason for this is to harmonise the amounts that students are able to claim with lump sums for mobility longer than 12 week. Also, the 200 euros per month extra for internships does not apply to mobility less than 12 weeks. This is to nudge students to seek out longer internships where possible..for mobility actions with duration longer than 12 weeks the lump sums are the same under the GA 2015: Group 1 500 /month Erasmus+ Programme Countries with higher living costs: Denmark, Ireland, France, Italy, Austria, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway Group 2 450 /month Erasmus+ Programme Countries with medium living costs: Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Iceland, Turkey Group 3 400 /month Erasmus+ Programme Countries with lower living costs: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Group 4 700 /month Erasmus+ Programme Countries or Regions from outermost territories: Outermost regions, Cyprus, Iceland, Malta and Overseas EU Countries and EU Territories For mobility destinations outside Erasmus+ Programme Countries, a monthly rate of 450 /month will be applied. In addition, students whose purpose of mobility is to do an internship longer than 12 week will receive an additional top-up of 200 /month. Please note that the EIT can change the mobility agreement guidelines at any time.

Event Management Internship Did you enjoy your time on the Journey? Would you like to gain event management experience with the most innovative and fun summer school in Europe? In the Netherlands we are looking to recruit an event management intern to help plan and execute the Dutch leg of the Journey. If this sounds like you or someone you know, send a brief motivation email and CV to gareth.wakeling@climate-kic.org telling us about your passion for entrepreneurship, love of climate science education and your awesome event organisation skills. The Journey Assistant will be required from mid May to mid August. The internship will be paid. While the hours are flexible we are looking for someone who has probably already graduated to avoid conflicts with their educational commitments. Take a look at where else the Journey will be passing this summer 2016 PhD Productions BV Woudweg 2 3123 KB Schiedam Like Webversie Afmelden