Funded by the European Union
We welcome local organisers from all around the world and all different professional backgrounds, including but not limited to:
These are the general requirements
For further details, visit Becoming an Organiser.
Organising a Climathon for your city is a unique experience that is beneficial on multiple levels.
We recommend the following roles for your Climathon Team, of course, one person can have multiple roles:
EIT Climate-KIC will support local organisers with the following:
Apply directly here.
Under special circumstances, and upon request, Climathon events may be organised by a group of individuals. Send your request for approval to climathon@climate-kic.org before starting your registration process.
EIT Climate-KIC will sign a MoU with only one organisation. This organisation will be considered the main organiser and point of contact. Please find consensus with your fellow organiser which one is better suited for that role. Even though the MoU is only with one organisation, you can still add your co-organiser in the registration process.
You can get in touch directly with the local organiser via the city website and check if you can support organising locally. Find all the Climathon city websites here.
We have either not reviewed your application or the e-mail with the MoU has not reached you (make sure to check your spam folder). If you haven’t heard from us two weeks after your application, please get in touch via our website or Slack.
We generally recommend that the person, who applies as the main organiser signs the MoU. We do understand that in some organisations the main organiser and point of contact does not have the rights to sign an MoU. If this is the case for you, you can forward the MoU to the person in your organisation that can sign it. In the Docusign template that you have received, you can click on "Action" and assign to someone else.
The MoU is signed for a 12-month term. If both the organiser and EIT Climate-KIC are satisfied with the first collaboration, the MoU will be automatically extended.
Once you have applied, these are the next steps:
The deadline for registration is 1 September 2020.
Once you have signed the MoU these are the next steps:
We believe cities are the place to pioneer exemplary climate action. We highly recommend you to involve your local municipality, because their involvement makes it more likely that you pick the right challenge and that any ideas developed through your Climathon are eligible for continued support and that you can, therefore, ensure significant local impact.
This can take one of the following forms: formal endorsement, sponsorship, involvement in co-creating a challenge, or other in-kind contribution (e.g. providing event venue or offering marketing support).
Organisers are responsible for securing all the resources required in order to host Climathon events. This includes, but is not limited to, personnel, venue, facilitation, and marketing materials.
Securing funding and additional sponsorships are important factors for a successful Climathon. Before reaching out to funders (financial support) and/or sponsors (other support) it is important to think about how you want to involve them. What value they can offer in exchange and how your collaboration could look like.
Most importantly, identify and prioritise companies, organisations, NGOs, and/or city representatives you know that might share your Climathon’s mission. Experience taught us that your local network is often the best place to start and that it will be a driving force for securing the funding and sponsorships needed.
Check out our Playbook for more tips on fundraising or reach out to our community on Slack.
The climate challenges your city faces, are at the heart of Climathon and for these identified city challenges, participants will generate ideas.
The first step is to recruit the Challenge Provider, who is often a city authority or someone related to the city departments, or any local businesses that experience real-life climate-related challenges.
Once you have identified your Challenge Provider, the role of the local organiser is in supporting the challenge creation, which often determines the quality of the ideas as well as the overall interest from the public.
The topic will be defined together with the Challenge Provider. Themes could be, Mobility & Transport, Food & Agriculture, Energy & Electricity among many others.
Check out our Playbook for more tips on challenge creation or reach out to our community on Slack.
In all Climathon communication, English is the common language. However, if you have only local people at your Climathon event, you can run it in your local language. The website allows you to create the website in English plus your local language (including the registration for participants).
Make sure though to use English for online communication during the Global Climathon Day - to be part of the online buzz and to spread your ideas throughout the community.
A good campaign is clear, consistent and compelling across all channels. Ideally, your campaign serves two goals:
With your target audience in mind, choose the right channels e.g. a mix of online and offline channels (think of media and forums).
Have a look at the Playbook for more guidance.
If you’re looking to enhance the impact of your Climathon, the following groups are often the best fit:
Ideally, you want to encourage diversity and different ways of thinking across the groups, as well as different levels of experience. During your ideathon, you can subsequently create opportunities to attract different audiences by creating tracks for new projects/participants without ideas, startups, intrapreneurs and policymakers.
Set-up your city website where participants can register. Once this is set-up you can start your recruitment process. Make use of the marketing material provided by the Climathon team (it will be available though our Knowledge base for logged in users) for your online, offline and media campaign to attract the right participants.
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