Develop your climate tech idea and initiate local change!
Climathons bring citizens together to raise awareness and start local climate innovation.
At our Climathon, you join forces with other ideators, innovators and entrepreneurs. Together, we collaborate on ideas for climate tech solutions to solve your local climate challenges.
The events help to raise awareness of the fight against climate change, strengthen local ecosystems and initiate concrete action.
We aim at turning your climate tech ideas into transformative solutions and lay the foundation for community activation, while shaping city planning and policies.
What to expect at the CATAL1.5°T Climathons?
Work on your passion
Address your local climate challenges: We provide training, mentorship, and resources to support the development and implementation of your sustainable solution.
Connect with others and form a team
In 12–48 hours, you get to know other climate innovators from your region and build a network. Together, you collaborate on your climate tech ideas.
Develop your ideas
From kick-off to presentation, follow a structured flow of team building, challenge understanding, idea brainstorming and visioning, creation and validation.
Strengthen your local ecosystem
By the end, your idea is ready for the next step: prototyping and making a positive impact on your region and climate change.
Applications for our Climathons are open
The network behind the Initiative
I&P
Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is a pioneering impact investment group dedicated to financing and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tec de Monterrey
Tecnológico de Monterrey is a leading Mexican private and non-profit university committed to higher technological education in Latin America. Tec’s world-class Eugenio Garza Lagüera Entrepreneurship Institute operates various entrepreneurship and venture-building programmes.
EIT Climate-KIC
EIT Climate-KIC is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency, supporting cities, regions, countries and industries to meet their climate ambitions through systems innovation.
GIZ GmbH
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH provides worldwide services in international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work. With its partners, GIZ develops effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.
Frequently asked questions
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