Best4VarioUse Final Conference Brussels, 23 May 2012

Andreu Campos Candel

Climate-KIC

RIC Project Manager

acampos@delcomval.be

Innovating for low-carbon

prosperity and climate

resilience

Background: EIT & KICs

2008 – EU establishes new European Institute

of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in

Budapest

2009 – EIT ‘call for proposals’ to establish 3

Knowledge and Innovation

Communities (KICs)

2010 – 3 KICs established on climate,

sustainable energy and ICT

Innovation on Mitigation and

Adaptation

Source: IPCC AR4 WGII

Integration of FOUR sectors for

innovation

Innovation

domain

Government &

Public Bodies

Research Business

Education

Excellence is paramount

Our partners span top:

•universities and research institutes

(35)

•business (19), SMEs (21)

•regional and local government (13)

•Not-for-Profit organisations and

networks (13)

Climate-KIC therefore brings together

all the actors of the innovation

pyramid .....

...and integrates these with our three pillars:

•Innovation & Pathfinder

•Entrepreneurship

•Education

• We form a network of ~100 partners

across Europe

• We come together at 5 Co-locations

• We reach out right across Europe

via our Regional Innovation &

Implementation Community (RIC)

• We are run like a business – CEO,

Executive, Governing Board,

Assembly

• We identify and respond to the

challenges of Climate Change

• Our activities cross boundaries:

discipline, sector, geography

•Europe’s engine for innovation in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Our Innovation Community and

European ‘interconnectivity’ Co-location Centre

Regional

Innovation and

Implementation

Community

Our Core Partners: 7 universities; 5 business; 5 Research

institutes; 3 RTO

Innovative companies

across several industries

Leading academic and

research institutes

6 and 17/83 Affiliate partners are universities

Partners in the Valencian Region

• AIDICO

• Asociación de Industrias del Mármol

• Ayuntamiento de Castellón

• CEU-Cardenal Herrera

• DG Obras Públicas (Conselleria Infraestructuras, Territorio y Medio Ambiente)

• Edinn

• FCVRE

• Federación Valenciana de Empresarios Construcción (FEVEC)

• FVMP

• IMPIVA

• Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación (IVE)

• Instituto Tecnológico Cerámico

• Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía

• MIDEME

• Universidad de Alicante

• Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

CLC and RIC are the crucial hubs

for integration of these actors and

activities

Climate-KIC: Europe’s engine for

climate change innovation

The innovation pipeline

Ecosystem:

The research and

knowledge base

Pathfinder:

Market

identification

Innovation

Product and

service

development

Delivery:

Marketable

products and

services

Education – entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship – incubation and support

Some examples of our

activities....

Innovation

Education

Entrepreneurship

The Innovation & Pathfinder portfolio

Innovative

Products

&Services

Market analysis &

scoping projects

Pathfinder Innovation Pathfinder

Barrier Removal

& Policy projects

Existing

projects, tools,

know-how

Market

deployment

2010

CLC driven

2011

Innovation

Pathfinder

2012

Innovation

Pathfinder

Water &

Ecosystem

Services

Agricultural

Production

Climate

information

& impact

services

GHG

Monitoring,

Reporting &

Verification

Carbon

reutilisation

Biorenewable

Production

Energy &

Industrial

Production

PRODUCTION AND

CONSUMPTION

ASSESSING CLIMATE

CHANGE AND MANAGING

ITS DRIVERS

CITIES & BUILT

ENVIRONMENT

SPATIAL AND LAND

MANAGEMENT

WATER

&

ENERGY

Cities

(and potential

sub-areas)

Developing thematic areas

•Cross-CLC/RIC Innovation & Pathfinder projects

•Evolving CLC/RIC leadership in high impact innovation areas

Admit Biorenewables: Adaptation & mitigation opportunities from integrating biorenewables

Microalgae Biorefinery: Sustainable feedstock supply for integrated production chains for the chemical, food and fuel industry – Scenario and business

development

– Market analysis

– Business model

http://www.climate-kic.org/innovations/theme-production/

Ongoing Projects ZCPS

Climate-KIC is currently preparing BP

2013 with experts and practitioners

from the community and beyond

– Cities, 22-23 May, Berlin (DE)

– Resources, 29-30 May, Wageningen

(NL)

– Climate, 5-6 June, Saclay (FR)

– Innovation Summit, 14 June, London

(UK)

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

market-place/

Ideas Market Places 2013

Addresses four focus areas:

– Land, Water and Ecosystem Management

– Agricultural Production

– Biorenewable Production

– Industrial Symbiosis (Carbon Reutilisation &

Industrial Production Systems)

IMP on Resources

Education: The Academy for

Climate Innovation

theJourney: An

intensive 5 week

programme for all

Masters and PhDs

that creates a

community of

climate innovators

and entrepreneurs.

The programmes

•Masters

•PhD

•Postdoctoral

•Professional

Some start-ups from

TheJourney

•DeCo!

•ElectricFeel

•Arboreal

•Small World Carbon

Greenhouse and sponsored

Start-Ups: Arboreal

A social business for people and forests

•Business concept: to set up self-contained mechanical processing centres to

allow cooperatives in tropical forests to process Non Timber Forest Products

(NTFP) such as cosmetics, medicinal and edible products.

•Processing centre contains the machinery to create higher value product from raw

NTFP, and storage and packages facilities

•Arboreal also provides training, coaching and networking services to enable

cooperative to run effective business and to access distribution channels for their

products

•Small scale industry helps communities move up the value chain and preserves

the forest

•Forest regions of Madhya Pradesh in India selected as location for the first

processing centre (64 million people of working age in Indian forest areas).

Greenhouse and sponsored

Start-Ups: DeCo!

•Decentralised composting for

sustainable farming and development

•SEED Award 2010

•Registered as NGO in Ghana

•Decentralised composting service to local

farmers (Franchise system in long term)

•Buy local biowaste, convert to organic fertiliser

•Reduces soil degradation and erosion

•Improves food security

•Creates new jobs

•Reduces GHG emissions

•Improves waste management

•Participatory approach

Entrepreneurship programme

2012

Clear ambition:

More climate starters

More starters & SMEs on fast growth trajectory

Business acceleration for innovations

1. Incubation & Support (KIC Network & Masterclasses)

2. Business Creation (funding & coaching)

3. Events & Competitions (Annual & EIT Awards)

4. Pioneers into Practice

19

Pioneers into Practice – professional

development in regions

Activities

• 2 x 4 week

placements in low

carbon innovation

projects

• Placements in

companies,

universities,

public authorities

• Learn about new

business models

for low carbon

innovation

• Develop

partnerships with

other

organisations and

regions

The Future…

• KICs are long-term initiatives (up to 15 years)

• ‘Horizon 2020’ - European Commission

proposals for Research and Innovation

(2014-2020):

- €2.8bn for EIT

- 60% of this budget for the 3 existing KICs

Innovation

domain

Government &

Public Bodies

Research Business

Education

Thank you!

Innovating for low-

carbon prosperity and

climate resilience

Some more examples of our

successes....

http://ec.europa.eu/clima/documentation/roadmap/docs/com_2011_112_en.pdf

Pioneer Cities – led by Climate-KIC

regions

Buildings

• Retrofit of housing stock

• Energy Demand Management

Energy Networks

• Bio-waste into energy

• Combined heat and power

Mobility

• Low Emission Vehicle Systems

• Integrated Mobility Services

Pioneer

Cities

Outcomes = New

Place-based

Business Models

Cities:

• Birmingham

• Frankfurt

• Bologna /

Modena

• Budapest

• Wroclaw

• Castellon /

Valencia

Innovations – new financing models, forms of user engagement

Our young enterprises:

Naked Energy – EIT Award 2012

and joint winner of Climate-KIC Venture competition 2011

•Climate-KIC SME partner

•Support from Climate-KIC UK CLC for measuring and

characterising performance

Improved

business case

•Hybrid solar panel providing electricity and hot water

•Combined Photo Voltaic and thermal energy system

•PV inside the tube with water flowing though

•PV provides electricity

•Water keeps PV at optimal temperature and provides source of hot water

•Unprecedented efficiency; cheaper renewable energy

BASIC

RESEARCH

Water

ClimateZero-Carbon

Production

Cities

The market place and climate

market acceleration

Market accelerator • Demand identification • Supply identification • Interface / Brokerage

Community tool • Member profiles • Substantive issues • Working groups

Climate-KIC Radar • Overview existing activities/strengths • Innovation opportunities

•Demonstration cities

project

•Leadership: NL, UK.

ES

•With the RIC regions’

‘Pioneer Cities’

•Bringing partners

together around “demand

side” challenges

•Accelerating market

delivery via the pipeline

CLC and RIC: our essential

ecosystem for innovation across

sectors

Innovation

Festival,

Hungarian

RIC,

Budapest

September

2011

Ideas Market

Place, German

CLC, Berlin

June 2011

• Hub of connectivity

• Centre of knowledge

• Launch pads, landing

pads, pipeline

• Structuring

mechanism