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 Project SeafoodTomorrow is a project that is approved within the call BG-08-2017: Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood.
The three-year SeafoodTomorrow project brings together 34 partners. From Flanders, ILVO takes part in the project.They are responsible for setting up two databases which are the central point of the project to gather all the project data from analysis and assessement. ILVO is also leader of the workpackage dealing with authenticity, traceability and labelling. ILVO is also involved a the workpackage about novel food preparation. And in the managerial part, ILVO is head of the IPC- Intellectual Property Comité.