Presentation given by Aideen O’Hora, Greenway, at the 2015 Horizon 2020 SC5 Information Day, 21/10/2015, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin

1. CLIMATE KIC IN IRELAND
Aideen O’Hora, Executive Director, The Green Way
21 Oct 2015

2. About Us
Build the Ecosystem Transformational change

3. Success to date
12,000m2 of
Innovation Space
Delivered
Quantum Living
Lab project
delivered with
Glen Dimplex, and
Handbook for
Living Lab in
collaboration with
EI, and new sites
developed via
Docklands 21,
Grangegorman etc
5 Irish Winners of
Global Cleantech
Cluster Awards
Climate KIC
Outreach
partnership
secured (&€580k)

4. The Ecosystem
640

5. News
• The Green Way will merge with the International
Sustainability and Investment Centre (ISI Centre)
• Focus = Irish Leadership for Green Growth
– Sustainability Skillnet
– Start up fund (seed & VC)
– Green Futures Programme (Enterprise)
• Climate KIC & ClimateLaunchpad
– Resource Efficiency programmes
• Docklands 2020

6. CLIMATE KIC

7. What is Climate-KIC?
Climate-KIC
• Europe’s largest public-private partnership
addressing climate change.
• Funded by
250 partners across Europe
• 52% Business
• 24% University and Research Institutes
• 24% Public bodies and NGOs
• Knowledge triangle …which brings together
all the actors of the innovation pyramid
Vision
Providing the people, products
and leadership to address the
challenge of global climate
change
Mission
Creating opportunities for
innovators to address climate
change and shape the world’s
next economy

8. What is Climate-KIC?
Connects research and technology with
business, focusing on 3 areas of expertise:
1. Innovation - identify and develop the market
potential of emerging technologies, creating
new products, services and jobs in Europe
with a global impact on climate change.
2. Education - recruit, nurture and develop
entrepreneurs to become agents of change.
Our courses combine climate change science
and entrepreneurship with a practical
programme of learning-by-doing featuring
real-life challenges and innovation projects.
3. Entrepreneurship - open up the market for
small businesses and start-ups working in the
areas of climate innovation, providing the
opportunities and practical tools to turn ideas
into commercial success.
6 CLC, 6 RIC and 5 Outreach
Regions

9. 8 Thematic Areas

10. CLIMATE KIC IRELAND OUTREACH
PROGRAMME

11. Journey
• Climate KIC Outreach: A twinning
partnership between RIS
locations (Central Hungary, Emilia
Romagna, Hessen, Lower Silesia,
Valencia and the West Midlands)
and 5 Outreach Regions.
• Collaboration: To ensure a more
strategic and holistic outlook,
pooling of resources, while
ensuring consistency, a uniformity
of approach, across the Climate-
KIC’s extended activities into
Ireland.
• Underpinned by Ireland’s smart
specialisation strategy
• Application Nov 2013
• Interview Dec 2013
• Letter of Offer Jan 2014

12. Focus
• 6 Outreach Regions
were selected, with 5
progressing (Dublin/
Cork (Ireland),
Helsinki/Uusimaa
(Finland), North
Portugal & Lisbon,
Slovenia and Timis
(Romania)

13. Delivery
€580k
allocated to Climate KIC Ireland since
beginning of 2014
1. Innovation
– Knowledge and Innovation Transfer
2. Professional Education
– Pioneers into Practice
– Innovator Catalyst
– Short courses
3. Entrepreneurship
– Start-up Accelerator
– Clean Launchpad (part-funded
through Entrepreneurship)
• Only ‘structured mobility’ activities
have been eligible

14. What does successful
delivery look like?
• Innovation
– Knowledge and
Innovation Transfer
• Study visits
– Thematic – sustainable
transport – 60 people
– Thematic – EPC

15. What does successful
delivery look like?
• Professional Education
– Pioneers into Practice (14)
– Innovator Catalyst (11)
– Short courses (33)
• I took part in the Decarbonising
Buildings Innovator Catalyst in
Birmingham ... It was an 8-day
programme for experienced building
professionals, such as myself, to work on
some of the challenges facing our
industry and develop ideas about how
these might be overcome. The 8-day
programme was very intensive, lively
and rewarding…peer-learning
approach... Frank Caul, MD Sirus Air Con

16. What does successful
delivery look like?
• Entrepreneurship
– Start-up Accelerator (20)
– Clean Launchpad (9
teams)
• Start-up Accelerator

17. ClimateLaunchpad
• 9 Irish IDEAS
developed
• 3 Irish teams
representing Ireland
at EU Final
• wasteNOT team
reaching top 20 out
of 800 start-ups from
28 countries

18. ClimateLaunchpad

19. CLIMATE KIC 2.0

20. Climate KIC 2.0
• EIT funding has increased from €4M to €91M,
since 2010
• Re-focus on strategy to maximise impact and
global alignment
• 2016 will focus on consolidated thematics
• Potential to expand Ireland’s role and thus
have greater impact

21. Aideen O’Hora
Executive Director, The Green Way
E: aohora@thegreenway.ie