Climate-KIC Mediterranean Geography Meeting with the Spanish partnership
Due to the working meeting that Innovation responsibles and Climate-KIC Directors of France, Italy and Spain held in the valencian premises of the Botànic, they get together with the Spanish consortium for meeting each other to identify opportunities of collaboration.
The meeting began with the welcome of Jose-Luis Muñoz, Climate-KIC Spain Director and then the 13 Spanish partners were introduced were besides talking about their involvement and experiences with Climate-KIC, also was said the themes they work in order to identify opportunities of collaboration with the rest of partners from the Mediterranean Geography.
The Spanish consortium are well represented in all the pillars with Politechnic University of Valencia and University of Valencia, regarding Education, also concerning research and innovation (ITE, IVIA, IVE, ITC, Fundación ValenciaPort), business (AVAESEN, Mideme y Eddin) and regional and local Administration with IVACE (core partner), Ayuntamiento de Castellón y la Fundación InnDEA del Ayuntamiento de Valencia.
Tras ello, la Directora de Climate-KIC Italy hizo también una breve presentación de los socios italianos y de sus áreas de actuación, donde se remarcó las similitudes con el consorcio español, ya que ambos tienen su origen en el ámbito regional hasta comienzos de este año, que se ha ampliado al marco nacional.
Then, Angélica Mónaco, Climate-KIC Italy Director, also introduced her Italian partners and the thematics where they work. She pointed out the similarities with the Spanish consortium because they had a regional framework until the beginning of 2016 for being broaden to national scope.
Por su parte, también presentó su consorcio a los asistentes y remarcó la oportunidad que nos brinda Climate-KIC de trabajar conjuntamente para abordar los retos que el cambio climático está sucediendo en el arco Mediterráneo.
Meanwhile, Thanh-Tam-Le, Director of Climate-KIC France and Mediterranean Geography, set out the opportunity that Climate-KIC offered to the 3 countries for working together for tackling the climate change challenges that are happened in the Mediterranean Basin.