Climathon 2024 - Greater Toronto Area, Canada (September 20-22nd Weekend)

Climathon 2024 - Greater Toronto Area, Canada (September 20-22nd Weekend)

Celebrating UN World Cleanup Day, get together with like-minded citizens to raise awareness and inspire local climate action!

By SDG Innovation Lab

Date and time

Fri, Sep 20, 2024 11:00 AM - Sun, Sep 22, 2024 2:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Celebrating UN World Cleanup Day (September 20th), the Climate Innovation Lab / SDG Innovation Lab - Sustainability Innovation Institute, Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (COIE) at Centennial College invites you to Climathon 2024: Greater Toronto Area, Canada on September 20-22nd!

Climathons connect a global community of climate-minded people working together to help our cities decarbonise.

Climathon is a global movement, orchestrated by EIT Climate-KIC, that empowers citizens to take action against climate change. We firmly believe that local activation and collaboration are essential in addressing the pressing challenges posed by climate change.

Through Climathon, we seek to inspire, connect, and support local changemakers who are determined to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate resilient society. We understand the importance of starting at the local level, as it is here that impactful transformations can take root and spread.

By participating in Climathon, citizens have the opportunity to take meaningful action within their communities, collaborate with decision-makers and future leaders, and contribute to the development of zero-carbon, climate-resilient cities.

Join Climathon Canada!

Become part of a global community of individuals and communities committed to making a difference. Together, we can create a sustainable future and leave a positive impact on the planet. Take the first step towards local action, connect with like-minded individuals, and contribute to the global fight against climate change.

Collaborate, form teams, and brainstorm positive ideas for a greener, resilient future. Gain a deep understanding of your city’s climate challenges and contribute to the global climate action movement.

These initiatives lay the foundation for projects and community activation, while shaping city planning and policies.

Expect 48 hours of ideal environment for bold climate-positive ideas. From kick-off to idea presentation, follow a structured flow of team building, challenge understanding, idea brainstorming and visioning, creation, and validation.

Start your climate action journey today—register now!

Together, we tackle climate change from the ground up.

Our team is working hard to put together many moving parts to bring you an engaging and impactful program. More details to come - stay tuned! :)

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SDG Innovation Lab

The SDG Innovation Lab is annual experiential programming to equip individuals with knowledge, skills, motivation and action plans to contribute toward the achievement of SDG solutions through social entrepreneurship.

This is an initiative to engage the youth, young professionals, and the community as an agent of change to bring about socio-economic and environmental impact through SDG-driven solutions with the use of an entrepreneurial mindset, new business models, and disruptive technologies. This provides participants with lifelong learning & opportunities to implement their own social entrepreneurship initiatives addressing most pressing challenges of humanity.

By engaging students in the highly agile experiential, entrepreneurial process and cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in students, we can empower and engage them to remain adaptable when facing obstacles, persist through failure, communicate better, become problem-solvers, opportunity finders and next generation innovators. This lifelong learning enables them to achieve their personal and career goals.

The SDG Innovation Lab consists of five experiential modules providing comprehensive experiential programming:

Module 1: SDG Training BootcampPresentations on SDGs and their implementation by experts followed by introduction to the design thinking process.

Module 2: Global Goals (SDG) ChallengeAn intense, hands-on, team-oriented and thoughtfully mentored program to design, build and pitch strategies for an originally- or collaboratively-hatched idea focusing on Global Goals/SDGs..

Module 3: Tech for SDG Bootcamp/HackathonAn intense, hands-on, team-oriented and thoughtfully mentored program to design, build and pitch strategies for an originally- or collaboratively-hatched technology idea focusing on Global Goals/SDGs.

Module 4: Build Your Venture (Incubation Experience)A 10- to 12-week intense, team-oriented and thoughtfully mentored program to build solutions to pressing social or business challenges using Lean LaunchPad methodology developed by Steve Blank in 2011 and introduced at Stanford University, Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley, a method for teaching entrepreneurship that combines experiential learning with the three building blocks of a successful lean startup: Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas, Blank's customer development model and agile engineering.

Module 5: Make Your Venture Investment-readyA mentoring, advisory, and lending program for underserved social enterprises with growth potential. Support and partnerships are planned to operationalize it.

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