Citizens from around the world will join forces and take action on 13 November as part of EIT Climate-KIC’s Climathon – a programme that unites policymakers, entrepreneurs, youth, business leaders, hackers, academics, students and professionals in tackling the defining climate challenges of their cities.
This year’s edition of Climathon will be hosted completely online and will be made up of eight to 72 hours ideathon events happening simultaneously across five continents. Many of the teams are determined to bring to life ideas that can contribute to the COVID-19 sustainable recovery. In Cali, the most populous city in southwest Colombia, for instance, participants will think about how to better manage the waste generated by COVID-19. In Zurich, teams will try to answer the question “In the context of COVID, what can we do tomorrow?”.
Read more: https://climathon.climate-kic.org/