“With its eight challenge platforms Climate-KIC has identified its key issues,” says PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a founding member and chairman of Climate-KIC’s governing board. These include topics like sustainable future cities as well as adaptation strategies for agriculture. “Now we have to develop flagship projects to enhance Climate-KIC’s profile and initiate a network of successful enterprises.” Climate-KIC is supported by the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) that is financed by the European Union. Currently, Climate-KIC and its partners mobilize more than 100 million Euro of investments in innovation.
The strategy meeting was started with the opening of the Climate-KIC “Green Garage” on Wednesday evening. The green garage is supposed to offer room to young entrepreneurs on the EUREF campus in Berlin-Schöneberg and support their efforts to create new ideas for innovative climate projects.
