Climate-KIC visits Malta to promote the fight against climate change
The Malta Water Week event is focused on innovation in water management solutions. The conference, held between 23th and 27th March, offers training, networking opportunities or search for investments in this field. Also conferences with experts like Manuel Irun, executive in the European Commission, Gabor Baranyai, Minister of Justice in Hungary, or Rahul Bansal, Deputy Director of Education at Climate-KIC.
Bansal, with over 10 years experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, explained the basics of Climate-KIC: A European initiative to promote partnerships between the public and private sectors in the fight against climate change. Climate-KIC has several programs for the business sector, education or public institutions to make Europe to lead this emerging green business niche.
“In Europe, our potential to deal with climate change and its consequences for water management is enormous, as long as we can keep working together”, says Bansal, who works at the headquarters of Climate-KIC, based in London.
“At Climate-KIC, we are doing this by inspiring future leaders in our graduate school and by providing current leaders and executives with the skills to make a difference”, he added.
Pioneers into Practice in Malta
José Luis Muñoz, responsible for Europe’s PiP program (Pioneers into Practice) Climate-KIC, one of the main initiatives of the European Union in innovation against climate change, presented at the Malta Water Week this program to attract experts and entrepreneurs to innovate in order to contribute to a more sustainable world.
Muñoz explained to an audience consisting of entrepreneurs, experts in water management, sustainability and technology what PiP is. This program provides funding, training, counseling and placements in enterprises or institutions, national and international. The goal, according Muñoz, is to promote “innovation to meet the challenges associated with climate change, through the creation not only of products and services, but experts who understand the social-technological change that is occurring.”