Spark! Sustainable Development and Bio-inspired Design

Climate Leadership Journey is an extracurricular challenge-based programme from EIT Climate-KIC that prepares master’s students, post-graduates, and young professionals to lead the transformation that society needs.

The programme combines over 10 years of experience from our education programmes supported by the European Institute of Technology (EIT). Climate Leadership Journey includes the year-round elements from the Climate Innovation Leadership pilot (which is built on the foundation of the EIT Label framework) and puts the Journey summer school at its core with its strong methodological approach and pedagogy.

The programme runs on yearly cycles from April to December and it is delivered in a blended format where most of the activities are held online except for the two-week summer school which is residential (locations change every year depending on our delivery partners).

SPARK! EXPERIENCE:

This first CLJ'22 SPARK event will provide an introduction to the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development, and how do WE unsterstand these terminologies. Furhtermore, we will connect these understandings with core components of bio-inspired design as a prelude to the CLJ summer school. The students will have a change to learn more about core sustainability concepts concepts and to explore solutions that looks into nature for grabbing inspiration.

* Pre-event registration survey * LINK to Survey HERE

Speakers:

Kamila Kunrath

Kamila Kunrath is a researcher at the Department of Business Development and Technology (BTECH), Aarhus University (AU). She is entrepreneur in the cleantech and agritech sectors and her core research focuses on sustainability education in engineering, designers’ professional identity and competencies, and in the intersection between green product development and technology.

Giovanni Formentini

Giovanni Formentini is a PostDoc at Aarhus University in the Lifecycle Design and Manufacturing Research Group. He works in the field of Product Development and his main expertise is the optimization of complex products using design for x methodologies.

Devarajan Ramanujan

Dev Ramanujan is an Associate Professor and Head of the Design & Manufacturing Section at the Department of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Aarhus University. He also leads the Lifecycle Design and Manufacturing Research Group that focuses on creating computer-aided tools and technologies for supporting data-driven, product lifecycle management and integrating environmental sustainability assessment into product and process design.

This Spark will be delivered by our partners Politecnico di Milano, Technische Universiteit Delft and Aarhus University.