The Universitat de València hosts during two weeks, from 16 to 30 July, the students of The Journey Summer School of Climate-KIC, which is the largest Summer School specialised in innovation against climate change of Europe. More than 200 students and young professionals from all over the world are grouped into eight itineraries to develop skills that give solutions to climate change. The students will travel to different European cities during their training process.
Organised by Climate-KIC, ‘The Journey’ is the largest Summer School of Europe on innovation and entrepreneurship focused on climate change. During the months of July and August, more than 220 students and young professionals from all around the word are gathered in eight itineraries that will go through different European cities in order to think and develop the necessary skills to be able to offer innovative and sustainable business solutions to one of the most important challenges of the world: the climate change.
One of these schools will take place in Lisbon, Valencia and Wroclaw (Poland). During five weeks, 40 students and young professionals who come from 19 countries will take part in this interdisciplinary education programme that focus on the financial, environmental and social challenges related to the global warming.
After going through Portugal, where the students have spent the two first weeks at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Nova University of Lisbon, the students have arrived at Valencia, where the Universitat de València hosts them during two weeks in which different multidisciplinary lessons on economics, business models, communication and marketing are programmed. All this is related to the business opportunities in the field of climate change in order to allow them to acquire the necessary knowledges to go into the work and business world. The participants work in teams that imitate the professional world.
Moreover, students are being trained in climate change and they will have meetings with the world’s leading private companies and other successful start-ups to know the business opportunities resulting from the climate change challenges.
The programme will finish with a week in Wroclaw, where they will coincide with other students group whose tour also finishes in the same city.
The programme ends with a competition where the students will present the ideas that they have developed to solve the problems related to climate in real world. Based on their own creativity and knowledge about the climate change, the students must present a detailed business plan before a judging panel composed of venture capitals, entrepreneurs, start-ups and scientists.
Start-up evening: learning from failure
During this edition, ‘The Journey’ participants that are in Valencia have the opportunity to attend the conference ‘Start-up evening: learning from failure’, which will have the same format as the ‘Fuck Up Nights’, where entrepreneurs from start-ups related to the sector will share with the audience the failures that they have faced with the objective to help third parties.
This event will count on the participation of Jackie Hernández, vice-president of operations and clients of Plug&Play Tech Center, the greatest start-up accelerator in the world located in Silicon Valley. He will give his opinion on failure as an integral part of success.
This event, apart from being an inspiration and learning for the European students that attend the Summer School, will also be a different networking space for attendees from different sectors in the field of climate change, entrepreneurs, professionals, start-ups and members of the academic world.
The Journey Summer School
This summer training program is aimed at students of masters and young professionals. Participants can choose a 3 or 5 week tour, where they travel to 2 or 3 cities respectively, with the participation of thirteen cities in Europe.
Last update: 20 de july de 2017 11:39.
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