New Climate-KIC projects given the green light
Five new Climate-KIC projects have been given the green light via the Climate Market Accelerator (CMA) programme.
Each of these projects is designed to help unlock demand for new climate innovations in Europe and builds on a breadth of Climate-KIC activity already underway. In response to a recent call for proposals, a total of 14 project ideas were submitted from across the EU. The pilots addressed a broad range of climate-related challenges and presented innovative mechanisms for feeding the resulting market intelligence back into existing Climate-KIC activity.
“Since the beginning of the CMA programme, we have already funded over €1.1m of innovation activity,” said Malte Schneider, chair of the CMA programme board and director of Climate-KIC’s centre in Berlin, Germany. “The increase in application numbers for funding this year shows the expanding interest in climate innovation across the EU and the growing awareness that demand-led innovation is key to accelerating the EU low carbon market.”
The addition of the five new projects brings the total number of running CMA initiatives to 12. Together, the CMA project portfolio covers a diverse range of technologies across wide thematic and geographical areas.
