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. These teams are the university’s ambassadors that will participate and benefit from the mentoring and incubation process, they are thus considered the heart of this project and the bearers of the Climate Lab initiative.
Following the exciting results of the kick-off meeting in Manizales, it was then the time for focusing our efforts on the conformation of the university teams that will lead the design and implementation of the Climate Labs. This step was of paramount importance since this project seeks to build strong interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder labs that will strengthen the applied research and innovation for climate change in the territories where the partners are involved.
Accordingly, the Working Package 1.1. was structured in order to set a methodology for building the CLT with the goal of having a multidisciplinary and diverse group, understanding the weaknesses and strengths of each member and mapping their main motivations for being part of the team. With this in mind, this WP sets a starting point for building strong CLT, but also a supporting mechanism for dealing with difficulties in leadership or operationalization issues.
Accordingly, the Working Package 1.1. was structured in order to set a methodology for building the CLT with the goal of having a multidisciplinary and diverse group, understanding the weaknesses and strengths of each member and mapping their main motivations for being part of the team. With this in mind, this WP sets a starting point for building strong CLT, but also a supporting mechanism for dealing with difficulties in leadership or operationalization issues.
Later in June 2020, results were shared with all participants. Latin-American universities received a customized report by the university from which they could reflect on the competence-profile and a set of four generic roles proposed for the CLT: Maker, Facilitator, Visionary or Manager. We need to highlight that these four roles are fundamental in the design of the ClimateLab. We know from experience that the dynamics of this type of space involves a multiplicity of tasks that may not be apparent at first sight, but which, in a global view, need to be ensured by the CLT in order to perform consistently in the long term. The intention was to trigger a reflecting process so strengths and improvements could be identified and discussed among the team. Based on these results, CLT members had also to state to which of the proposed CLT roles they identified the most and the least.
For the final step of this process, CLT members were also required to ideate on potential strategies for filling the gaps in terms of competences. This would be an important input for the following working packages as CLT can move forward to the design and implementation of their Climate Lab. The assembling of CLT ended with the official declaration of their team composition sharing who they are and their main motivations for taking part of this journey.
Finally, the set of guidelines for enabling transparent decision-making processes was presented to the consortium as the foundations for a governance building process that starts with the WP1.1 but it will actually be developed in parallel throughout the whole Climate Lab project. In this way, CLT can find a source of inspiration and best-practices for setting their own governance system.
The Climate Lab journey continues…
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12/07/2021 - 17h17