Key findings pathfinder project “Sustainable Campus Launching Customer”

Last spring the Climate-KIC Pathfinder project “Sustainable Campus Launching Customer” (SCLC) has come to an end. The project team of SCLC would like to share some key findings of the project with the Climate KIC community. The SCLC concept Campuses have all it takes to invent and develop sustainable system innovation: brilliant minds, international networks with governments, companies and other scientists, sufficient space and access to equipment and future generations to make climate innovation happen. However the test-bed function, including testing technologies and University Real…

Showcase and call for more Living Labs

In July www.proeftuinendelft.nl was launched, a website showcasing living labs in Delft relating to the environment, the economy, housing, healthcare, people and mobility. The municipality has appointed its very own living labs case manager who can help interested parties who would like to try out their idea, invention or innovation as a living lab in Delft. For more information see www.proeftuinendelft.nl.

Creating University campuses as regional climate innovation engines throughout Europe

With the start of the pathfinder project Sustainable Campus Launching Customer (SCLC), the first steps were taken to create an European campus network with campuses functioning as regional climate innovation engines. SCLC aims to bring climate innovation research into the market, making use of the nine European university campuses as test-beds prior to implement climate innovations into the market. As a first step best practices of approaches and research-valorisation examples were shared amongst the partners. Secondly all campuses were visited by TU Delft and Utrecht…

Sustainable Campus Launching Customer

Creating a great European campus network by bringing climate innovation research to the market Whilst universities are generating a great deal of climate relevant research, much of it never makes it any further than campus archives. The pathfinder project Sustainable Campus, Launching Customer (SCLC) aims to bridge the societal demand for climate innovation and the scientific knowledge supply from a network of nine European university campuses. Although universities have the potential to be leading change agents in both climate change mitigation and adaptation they are,…