Published 7 April 2020 It is going well for many of the companies in Climate-KICs Nordic Accelerator. One of the success stories is Swedish Algae Factory that has just secured 53 MSEK in funding. Swedish Algae Factory extracts a unique nanoporous silica material from algae. The material has exceptional properties when it comes to light as well as the ability to absorb or release particles dependin

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/swedish-algae-factory-secures-funding - 2025-04-21

Published 7 April 2020 The biannual Nordic Accelerator intake boot camp was hosted on the 5-6 of March this year. Twenty founders gathered in Malmö to take part in a series of thought-provoking workshops and finally pitched to qualify into the first stage of our Accelerator programme. Five workshops and twenty pitches later, the panel and the Nordic Accelerator team reached the final decision. The

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/spring-arrivals-nordic-accelerator - 2025-04-21

Published 7 October 2020 Climathon is a global hackathon for climate solutions that is run in over 100 locations globaly each autumn. In 2020 we will host a Climathon multiple locations around Skåne. The theme of this years Climathon is Food and Climate. Due to the Covid-19 situation we have made a lot of changes to this years format. Climathon will not be 24 hours as we have done previous years b

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-skane-2020 - 2025-04-21

By olof [dot] blomqvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Olof Blomqvist) - published 24 September 2021 Would you like to: • Find out more about sustainable mobility • Learn how to run solution-oriented innovation activities • Work together in a diverse group of people • Win amazing prices • And have fun while making an impact Then come and join us! Climathon is a global climate action program that take

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Published 16 November 2021 Climathon is a hackathon for climate solution that is organized simultaneously in over 100 city’s all around the world. Climate-KIC@LU organized Climathon in Lund on the 25-29th of October. The 5 day event was a great success with over 50 participants. All most as many experts, staff, jury members, workshop leaders and others helped the participants out in creating the c

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2021-0 - 2025-04-21

Published 18 August 2023 Climathon is a hackathon for climate solution that is organized simultaneously in over 100 city’s all around the world. Climate-KIC@LU organized Climathon in Lund on the 7-11th of November. The 5 day event was a great success with over 70 participants. A large group of experts, staff, jury members, workshop leaders and others helped the participants out in creating the cli

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2022 - 2025-04-21

Published 13 December 2016 On the 8th of November Climate-KIC held a large Pan-European event in Frankfurt. Here is a short report about this event. Climate-KIC innovation Summit Frankfurt 8/11The event started off with a talk on the urgency of action to meet the threats of climate change with action by John Schellnhuber CBE, Founder/Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). M

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Published 22 December 2016 urban transition workshop On the 29th of November there was an Urban Transition Workshop in Malmö hosted by Climate-KIC. The workshop was held at Malmö Live and was well visited by relevant local, national and international actors. People from research, public administration and academia were represented.Here is an article from Climate-KIC about the event.Here are some p

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-transition-workshop-malmo-2911 - 2025-04-21

Published 22 December 2016 Enjay is one of the companies from Lund University that has joined the Climate-KIC Start-up Accelerator. We made a visit to their office in Stävie to find out more about what they do. Enjay – Recovering heat and saving moneyEnjay addresses a need that probably few people would be pondering about - the heat in the outgoing air from restaurant kitchen ventilation. Jesper a

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/enjay-filtration-climate-kic-accelerator-company-lund-university - 2025-04-21

Published 13 December 2016 From the 1 of November there is a new Climate-KIC project coordinator at the Lund University working actively with involving research at the University in the different Climate-KIC initiatives. During the first months the position will be held temporarily by Olof Blomqvist. Here is a short interview with Olof. Interview with Olof Blomqvist, Climate-KIC Project Coordinato

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/new-climate-kic-coordinator-lund-university - 2025-04-21

Published 29 December 2016 During 2016 there has been some involvement in different Climate-KIC activities at Lund University. Here are short descriptions of the different Projects. AcceleratorIn 2016 the following activities have been taking place at Lund University within the Climate-KIC.LU Innovation is the contact point at the university for Start-ups and entrepreneurs wanting to engage in Cli

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-activities-lund-university-2016 - 2025-04-21

Published 6 February 2017 The second Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day was held at DTU Skylab on the 27th of January 2017. From preparations all the way until the finishing drinks, the event was in every way a great success. No less than 59 idea suggestions were submitted in advance. Out of this great pool of ideas, a little more than a third (23) was selected and allowed to pitch at the event. The

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-nordic-ideation-day - 2025-04-21

Published 27 March 2017 Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private partnership tackling climate change through innovation, today announces the appointment of Anders Wijkman as Chair of the Governing Board of Association Climate-KIC, with immediate effect.  Wijkman succeeds John Schellnhuber, who is stepping down having successfully served as Chair for six years, the maximum tenure of two terms.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-announces-anders-wijkman-new-chair-governing-board - 2025-04-21

Published 10 April 2017 In early April we were informed that Lund University was awarded no less that two Climate-KIC Pathfinder Projects. Read more about the two awarded Projects here. An Auditing Tool for Climate Effective PackagingAssociate Professor Henrik Pålsson and Associate Professor Daniel Hellström of the Packaging Logistics department of Lund University was awarded a Pathfinder project

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/two-climate-kic-pathfinder-projects-awarded-lund-university - 2025-04-21

Published 11 April 2017 Here is a video from Climate-KICs Ideation Day at DTU 27 January. Look out for dates for a possible second Ideation Day late autumn 2017.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/video-ideation-day-27-january-2017 - 2025-04-21

Published 5 May 2017 The Swedish cities of Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv are looking for creative partners with innovative solutions that can be involved in a new venture, to convert waste heat into urban food or other biological production through an Open Innovation Competition. Clean residual heat emitted from a diverse range of sources – from single refrigerators to industrial sites – repres

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-food-residual-heat-open-innovation-competition - 2025-04-21

Published 19 May 2017 Did you miss the Climate-KIC Workshop 16/5? We gathered most of the presentations so that you can seethem here. Climate-KIC WorkshopProgramme 13.00–16.00:13.00–13.10 Welcome and introduction13.10–13.35 Innovations and climate change – how far can it take us? Helena Tillborg, Kraftringen13.35–14.05 Climate KIC – How to access possibilities, funding and network. Henrik Sönderga

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-workshop-165 - 2025-04-21

Published 25 November 2014 During this application round four (4) applications were received. A decision has now been taken to award two scholarships, which consequently go to:Beatrice Fäldt - Gender, Children and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - A study on gender relations in the Nicaraguan contextCecilia Emilsson - Chachawarmi and Its Effects on Female Participation in Rural BoliviaWe would like

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Published 20 January 2015 A research programme in Sustainability Science at Lund University (LUCID) invites applications for up to eight PhD positions and one post-doc position, including PhD in Human Geography and PhD in Human Ecology.LUCID is a Linnaeus programme sponsored by The Swedish Research Council Formas for the period 2008-2018. It operates as a cross-faculty consortium of four departmen

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/lucid-announces-phd-position-human-ecology-and-phd-position-human-geography - 2025-04-21

Published 21 January 2015 Elin Brudin (SGSPL - Bachelor's in Urban and Regional Planning batch 2011-2014) has received a third prize for her Bachelor's thesis in a thesis contest 2014 from Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Read more (in Swedish). Elin's thesis is available in open access and can be downloaded from Lund University Student Thesis Database. Elin's Bachelor's thesis

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/elin-brudin-receives-prize - 2025-04-21