Read the first newsletter for 2022! It provides an overview and a quick catch-up on the main RIS developments in the past few months. About GREECE Hub: Participation in the International Expo 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, Director of the EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece, participated in the Greek delegation, led …
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CE Beacons intend to create eco-system services catalyzing systemic circular transition in West Balkans, leaning on systems innovation. These services will be consisted of a redesigned set of frameworks, tools and training methods already successfully implemented in EU, but applicable to WB countries. These services are intended to be sold primarily to business sector for …
CE Beacons: Balkan Circular and Climate Innovation Beacons Read More »
Good-quality water supply is a prerequisite for economic and social progress, especially in the RIS regions targeted in Southern Europe. In the early stages of the project in 2020, six main challenges to tackle water scarcity were identified: 1- Enabling Agile Water Management, via Digitalization 2- Raising Awareness and Promoting Education 3- Unlocking Water Governance …
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The Maritime ClimAccelerator, supported by EIT Climate-KIC, through its vast network of collaborators, will offer participating start-ups funding, training, peer to peer coaching and theme-specific mentoring (both virtually and in-person). 30-40 start-ups will be accepted per year and will be asked to provide innovative solutions for the transition to sustainability of the maritime industry, both locally and globally, and will …
The recent EC directive on single-use plastic products (SUP) requires governments to take action to reduce or ban certain SUP to increase plastic waste prevention (PWP). EIT Climate-KIC portfolio lacks applications of the SUP directive that engage experiments with local government citizens and private operators. In terms of innovation, in Europe cities lack of governance …
Despite alarms on the need to unlock financial capitals to reverse the trend of climate change has been rising for years, humans’ cognitive biases have prevailed. This project works on an awareness-intention-action path fostering problem-owners in the ecosystem to a deeper understanding of circular thinking. On the basis of a debiasing experiment, the co-creation of …
Investments to revive our economies must go beyond a recovery of what existed before COVID-19. To enable regions & cities act upon this challenge and provide the needed long-term economic sustainability a clear map of the system functioning and existing interconnections is needed. This project is designed to support the scaling-up stage for system mapping …
SysMa 4 Transition: System Mapping as a Service for post-COVID Regional Transition Read More »
EIT Climate-KIC has identified – with EIT Food, Raw Materials and Manufacturing – water scarcity as a fundamental topic to work together for the whole southern region development but still being weakly integrated in the current activities, establishing a clear opportunity for collaboration. Through this project, the 4 KICs aim to find innovative solutions to …
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The maritime sector accounts for 90% of global trade and 2.2% of global GHG emissions – a figure projected to increase threefold by 2050. Within the Deep Demonstration for maritime hubs, the port of Piraeus is working with other ambitious partners on land (Port of Valencia) and at sea (Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Shipping) who …
Deep Demonstrations for Zero-Net Emissions in the port of Piraeus – Frame Phase Read More »
The recent EC directive on single-use plastic products (SUP) requires governments to take action to reduce or ban certain SUP to increase plastic waste prevention (PWP). EIT Climate-KIC portfolio lacks applications of the SUP directive that engage experiments with local government citizens and private operators. In terms of innovation, in Europe cities lack of governance …
Despite alarms on the need to unlock financial capitals to reverse the trend of the climate change has been rising for years, short- sightedness’ of humans seem to prevail. Behavioural economics has shown that humans are affected by a cognitive bias known as hyperbolic discount: we make choices today that our future self would prefer …
The maritime sector accounts for 90% of global trade and 2.2% of global GHG emissions – a figure projected to increase threefold by 2050. Within the Deep Demonstration for maritime hubs, the port of Piraeus is working with other ambitious partners on land (Port of Valencia) and at sea (Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Shipping) who …
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The EU has set an ambitious plan for the adoption and implementation of the circular economy (CE). The Plan estimates that by 2030 the integration of CE will result in savings of over 600 bil. euros for EU businesses will create 580,000 new jobs and will contribute to the reduction of 450 million tons of greenhouse …
CE in S3: Circular Economy Transition in Smart Specialization Strategy Read More »
BL.EU Climate is a project developed by EIT Climate-KIC partners in Croatia (Green Energy Cooperative), Greece (ATHENA RC) and Portugal (FCT NOVA) which aims to address the challenge of CO2 emissions by tackling plastic marine littering in southern European waters through innovation. This will be done by building capacity for innovation alongside the local challenge …
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