Joyce de Leeuw talks to us about her masters thesis research in Nepal.

She answers our questions as part of our on-going Student Stories series on mobility students. Joyce is currently researching wastewater usage and associated risks in Kathmandu. Click here to read her story: goo.gl/xhEd2I

Hello all,
Thank you for to everyone who attended the EIT Awards and DGECAs Education Conference. A special thank you goes to: Evan Bruner (SolarCatch), Kate Hofman (GrowUp), Swati Pandey (TRA Labs), Cheryl Bone and LiWah Wong who all represented Climate-KIC at the conferences. And a special congratulations goes to Kate Hofman for her much deserved award. You can read Evan Bruners inspiring story from the EIT Awards by clicking here: goo.gl/LA9yj6 And you can read Stephan Hardwicks report from the DGECA event in Vilnius here: goo.gl/ffl59m

Education Team: New recruits

As from today (Monday, 2
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December), the Climate-KIC Education team has expanded.

We welcome Flora Rosenow the new education communications manager, the alumnis very own Maria Peeva will join us as the education community coordinator, Marie Melvin becomes our education operations manager and Meeae Lee will be our education central coordinator.

Alumni Board, 2014

We can also officially welcome the new alumni board who spent the weekend in Berlin finalising the transition.

Spark!
Our final Spark! of 2013 comes direct from Berlin this December 16 . The Climate-KIC student community will tackle five challenges given by the platform Industrial Symbiosis and each CLC will tackle a challenge each (Berlin gets two it being the host): goo.gl/zYnWgl
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Student Innovation
To help you learn more about Climate-KIC and what it offers, we spoke with Malte Schneider, Climate-KICs former deputy director of innovation and now German CLC director. With over three years experience in our Innovation projects, he is perfectly placed to guide you through what our Innovation and Pathfinders programme can offer alumni and students. You can read all about it here: goo.gl/L9gAZ6 Summer Schools now on YouTube Videos from the thematic PhD summer school and our corporate video from this years Journey are now online. Thats all for this month, were off to rewrap recycled presents. We hope you all have a great holiday and are excited as us about the developments in store for 2014. Phillip Wood