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Climate ChangeInnovationJoin our first Summer School onEntrepreneurship in Climate Change

5 July to 13 August 2010

Paris, London and Zurich

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Climate-KIC is one of the first three Knowledge and Innovation Communities designated by

the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as key drivers of European excellence,

innovation and growth. Climate-KIC will create a generation of climate change entrepreneurs

with the multidisciplinary skills to develop economically, environmentally and socially

sustainable approaches to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming. In 2010, the

first students will join our distinguished research & innovation network of academic, regional,

and corporate partners across Europe. They will be the pioneers of our European core course in

Climate Change Innovation.

Climate-KIC

CLIMATE CHANGE I NNOVATIONis a n exciting opportunity for students and

young researchers to get in touch with Europes

leading scientific and innovation community

on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

You will get hands-on experience of how the

latest science is translated into new services

and products that have an impact on our

climate and our economy. During the summer

school, you will study all aspects influencing

the market for climate change innovation, such

as policy, legal and financial incentives andconstraints. You will acquire the knowledge

and skills that are essential for you to become

a successful innovator in the field of climate

change.

TEAMING UP TO MAKE A CHANGEIn multidisciplinary teams, you will develop

your solutions to mitigate climate change

and to adapt to a changing climate. You will

investigate the possibilities of creating

successful new ventures, based on findings

in Climate KICs four research & innovation

programmes:

Assessing climate change and managing its

drivers

Transitioning to resilient, low carbon cities

Adaptive water management

Zero carbon production systems

Climate Change Innovation will

end with a business plan compe-

tition. At the end of our summer

school you will have developed

your entrepreneurial skills as well

as your understanding of the

many scientific and technological

aspects of climate change.

Successful participants are the

first to receive an EIT Climate-KIC

labelled certificate.

WHEN AND WHERE?The summer school is organised as a learning

journey which starts on 5 July 2010 in Paris

and moves to London on 17 July. The final two

weeks, 31 July to 13 August, will be spent in

Zurich.

WHO CAN APPLY?Participants must have a good Bachelors

degree at least, and be enrolled in a European

university. Master and PhD students are

preferred. They should either be science,engineering or social science students in fields

relevant to climate change, or be enrolled in

business studies or economics. Employees of

core corporate Climate-KIC partners can also

participate. All applicants will need to be

proficient in both written and spoken English

(IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).

All applicants must have an interest in

entrepreneurship.

COSTSClimate-KIC will pay for participants accommo-

dation, breakfast, lunch and dinner for the six

weeks, and travel between the three venues.

Participants will have to pay for their initial

journey to Paris, their return journey from

Zurich, personal expenditure (e.g. drinks and

entertainment); and an registration fee of 100EUR by 14 May 2010.

HOW TO APPLYApplication deadline: 23 April

2010. You can download an

application form at www.

climate-kic.org or contact

kicsummer10@imperial.ac.uk.

About Climate-KIC:

http://www.climate-kic.org/

About EIT:http://eit.europa.eu

Why join the Climate-KIC summer school?

A brand new European initiative

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European Institute of Innovation & Technologyhttp://eit.europa.eu

Climate Change Innovation is jointly designed by Climate-KICs five

academic core partners:

ETH Zurich, Switzerland Imperial College London, UK

IPSL, Paris Tech, CEA, INRA, USVQ, Mto France, Advancity, France

PIK, TU Berlin, TU Munich, GFZ, FZ Jlich, KlimaCampusHamburg, Germany

Utrecht, TU Delft, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Climate-KICs ten corporate core partners are Bayer, Beluga Shipping, Cisco,

DSM, EDF, SAP, Schiphol Group, Shell, SolarValley, Thales

Climate-KICs regional core partner is RIC: the Regional Innovation and

Implementation Community