Our mission

Innovation and applied research
for mitigation and adaptation Climate change.

What is Climate Labs?

Climate Labs seeks to strengthen the applied research and innovation capacities of ten universities in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, by structuring and implementing social innovation labs to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In a network involving from universities from Spain, France and Italy, as well as Ashoka as a non-academic specialist partner, the project aims to build interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder laboratories that will institutionalize applied research and innovation to climate change in the territories of partner institutions.

The institutions participating in the project are:

Latin American Institutions

European Institutions

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Event

Encontro em Manizales

On January 15, 2020, we began implementing the Climate Labs project. This project aims to strengthen applied research and innovation capacities in 10 Latin American Universities in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia through co-creation laboratories for climate change mitigation and adaptation, accompanied by European expert institutions and Ashoka.

24/06/2021 - 15h40

Presentation

Work Package 1.1. – Assembling the Climate Lab Teams

The Climate Labs project is, most importantly, about People. Thus, The Climate Lab Teams (CLT) are meant to be integrated by diverse background members, including professors, researchers, administrative staff and complemented by student leaders.

12/07/2021 - 17h17

Presentation

Work Package 2.1 Social Innovation and Climate Change Mapping

The approach to the Climate Labs requires considering the territory and the universities' own practices and capacities. For this reason, the first purpose of this work package (WP2.1) was to identify the main strengths of the participating universities in terms of social innovation, a nuclear element of the incoming Climate Labs.

12/07/2021 - 17h24