Cork Climathon 2016

Cork Climathon 2016 is part of a 24-hour climate change challenge taking place simultaneously in 121 cities around the world on Friday, October 28, 2016. Cork Climathon 2016 is a global 24-hour hackathon focused on finding practical solutions to local climate change challenges. The Cork Climathon Challenge will focus on how to make Cork’s food and agriculture sustainable and climate smart. Interested parties are welcome to register an expression of interest via www.climathon.climate-kic.org/cork
This event will be of interest because:

1. It is valuable to young people planning a career in sustainable or low carbon employment.

2. It will result in strong developmental experience for employees - learning new tools for problem solving.

3. There will be great local food, great people to work with, high quality problems to solve and lots of craic.

4. It is free to attend.

Partners involved in Cork’s Climathon are Blackstone LaunchPad at UCC, Cork City CouncilEnergy Cork, Environmental Research Institute UCC, IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme, IERC, LEO Cork City, MaREI and Taste Cork.