Joyce de Leeuw talks to us

about her master’s thesis research in Nepal.

She answers our questions as part

of our on-going ‘Student Stories’ series on mobility students.

Joyce is currently researching

wastewater usage and associated risks in Kathmandu.

Click here to read her story:

goo.gl/xhEd2I

Hello all, Thank you for to everyone who attended the EIT Awards and DGECA’s Education Conference.

A special thank you goes to: Evan Bruner (SolarCatch), Kate Hofman (GrowUp), Swati Pandey

(TRA Labs), Cheryl Bone and LiWah Wong who all represented Climate-KIC at the conferences.

And a special congratulations goes to Kate Hofman for her much deserved award.

You can read Evan Bruner’s inspiring story from the EIT Awards by clicking here: goo.gl/LA9yj6

And you can read Stephan Hardwick’s report from the DGECA event in Vilnius here: goo.gl/ffl59m

Education Team: New recruits

As from today (Monday, 2nd

December), the Climate-KIC Education team has expanded.

We welcome Flora Rosenow the new education communications manager, the alumni’s very own

Maria Peeva will join us as the education community coordinator, Marie Melvin becomes our

education operations manager and Meeae Lee will be our education central coordinator.

Alumni Board, 2014

We can also officially welcome the new alumni board who spent the weekend in Berlin

finalising the transition.

Spark!

Our final Spark! of 2013 comes direct from Berlin this December 16th

. The Climate-KIC student

community will tackle five challenges given by the platform ‘Industrial Symbiosis’ and each CLC will

tackle a challenge each (Berlin gets two – it being the host): goo.gl/zYnWgl

Student Innovation

To help you learn more about Climate-KIC and what it offers, we spoke with Malte Schneider,

Climate-KIC’s former deputy director of innovation and now German CLC director.

With over three years’ experience in our Innovation projects, he is perfectly placed to guide you

through what our Innovation and Pathfinders programme can offer alumni and students. You can read

all about it here: goo.gl/L9gAZ6

Summer Schools now on YouTube

Videos from the thematic PhD summer school and our corporate video from this year’s Journey are

now online.

That’s all for this month, we’re off to rewrap recycled presents. We hope you all have a great holiday

and are excited as us about the developments in store for 2014.

Phillip Wood