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PHD SUMMER SCHOOL

TURNING FRANKFURT CARBON FREE

Our inaugural thematic PhD summer school ended last week in Frankfurt with students from 20 Universities

across Europe joining Hanene Bettaib [pictured] and each other to drive forward Frankfurts plan to make thecity carbon free by the year 2050.

The two week event saw seven teams formulate either a Masterplan or a detailed niche experiment which was

presented to a panel of experts in the famous German city. Click for more about the programme here.

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Hello all,

This summer has been an incredible success for Climate-KIC. Thank you all for your efforts. Our summer school

offerings, theJourney and our inaugural thematic PhD summer school, saw over 200 participants from over 20

European universities get together to drive forward innovations in climate-change mitigation and adaptation. And

this month will bring another first with the first cohort of Climate-KIC Masters labelled students graduating in

Wroclaw, Poland.

Alumni Weekend

The Urban Safari brought together over 120 alumni together in a cold

campsite in the Netherlands. Thank you all for coming and a special

thanks to our board: Sanderine, Andreas, Marvin, Maria and Katharine,

and helper Chris, for all their hard work in putting the event together.

Judging by the comments and photos left on Facebook it was a roaring

success. Next month well officially introduce the new board members.

We are fully aware that there was no official representation from

Climate-KIC. A terrible error on our part; we do love to see you all. Noexcuses and we sincerely apologise.

IPCC report

The big news in September was clearly the publication of the IPCCs Fifth Climate Change Assessment Report

which stressed the urgent need for new climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions. A host of Climate-KIC

partners have been heavily involved with the IPCC report in Stockholm. Anders Levermann, lead author of the

IPCC chapter on sea-level rise and co-chair of Climate-KIC partner Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact

Researchs research domain Sustainable Solutions, said: We are now more certain than ever that the Earth is

warming and that human-caused emissions are a major factor. It is now up to society to decide what risks we are

willing to take and how to act on this knowledge. You can read our article here.

Update on Innovation Festival

Those of you who have been accepted to go to the Innovation Festivalin Poland later this month should have

received an email invitation. If you applied to go and were told you have been accepted but have yet to receive

an invite, please check you spam box then proceed to contact your local CLC manager should you need to. Any

non-CLC based students cancontact me.

Weve received a lot of emails about this so please pay attention. Attendees at the festival will staying at

WroclawsHotel Diamentand you can work out how to get their using the citys official public transport website.

BTW - All entries are now closed.

Greenhouse: Open for Applications!

The Climate-KIC Greenhouse supports those of you with a great idea

in the design & deve lopment of a first draft business model for a

product or service idea that supports climate mitigation and/or

adaptation. The Greenhouse is an informal and flexible environment

with learning at its core.

Each Greenhouse differs from location-to-location but you can expect

support through monthly meetings, expert coaching, use of facilities

and funding while you test out your entrepreneurial potential!

You can apply as an individual or as a group by sending your business idea with a staged plan for execution to

Martine van Veelen. Deadline is November 1st. Contact your localCLC managerfor more information.

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Thats all for this month, see you in Poland.

Phillip.

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