Partnership website: https://www.climate-kic.org/
The Climate-KIC community currently involves 400+ organizations from diverse sectors including businesses, universities, cities, public agencies, and NGOs. With a focus on climate action, the Climate-KIC community aims to drive breakthrough innovation and help Europe achieve its goal of a zero-carbon economy by 2050. All partners are invited to participate in four key areas:
To effectively address the challenges in these areas, our community is structured around four integrated programs:
To explore opportunities and stay updated on the latest news, visit the Climate-KIC webpage and check their open calls for proposals. EIT Climate-KIC have their office in Brussels. You can reach out through ckbrussels@climate-kic.org.
Belgian organisations and companies can also contact the Benelux hub of this Innovation Community. Details can be found on their website.
You can also attend or watch InnovEIT, the annual conference of the EIT where you can meet other members of the communities and EIT experts.
Lastly, for Climate-KIC related inquiries, you can contact the National Contact Point (NCP) for Flanders, Ria.debreucker@vlaio.be.
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
The AgrifoodTEF, funded under the Digital Europe call for a Testing and Experimentation Facility for Agri-Food, is a network of world-class testing and experimentation facilities (TEFs) in the agri-food sector that supports testing state-of-the-art data, AI, and robotics solutions in real-world environments to accelerate their market introduction. ILVO, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Flemish node of the AgriFoodTEF supports the entire agri-food business, leveraging its infrastructures, experience and vast network established through participation in numerous Digital Europe and Horizon Europe initiatives.