Larissa Barabasch from Vienna is a Climate-KIC Master Label student label at the University of Copenhagen. As an economics and business student, her curiosity led her to question the model of growth and use it to address soil diversity and waste management. After changing her studies from economics to climate change, together with other participant…

Tune in for a very interesting conversation on the relevance of personal choices and impact on the environment. Our guests, food and winter lover Raquel Sabater Cánovas fom Madrid and Aleksandra Milovanović from Serbia who loves design, sports and music, participated in the Climate KIC Journey 2020. Raquel completed her studies in industrial and ch…

Today’s episode builds on the inspiration of Paloma Velón García-Velasco and Mara Haverkort that translates into the engagement of people, doing little things for a better planet and finding solutions to complex problems, step by step. Tune in and enjoy the stories of “Sea-Lover” Paloma (Madrid) and “Enthusiast” Mara (The Netherlands). While Paloma…

In Episode 41 we meet Simona Jastremskaite who participated in the 2020 Dublona Journey. Simona's climate journey began in China. While teaching, she became sensitised to the incapacity of expanding urban areas to build resilience against rapid climate change. This has led her to her Master's studies in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Scie…

Today we return to the Climate-KIC Journey as we learn about group dynamics, GEMO in project management (GE-wha? tune in to find out), and a new concept for ensuring carbon transparency. Mikaela Pettersson (in Lund, Sweden) and Isabel Nieto Tous (in Majorca, Spain) from the Bologna-Trento-Zurich Journey had an innovative idea of a platform that the…

In a highly informative episode, we meet Hamburg native and Leipzig resident Isabelle Leipzig and learn how the long path towards sustainability was influenced by a layering of experiences. From swimming in a lake above a flooded coal mine to sailing past plastic bottles on the fringes of the rainforest in Peru, Isabelle has seen the destructive re…

At Your Service is a project that stems from the #Climate-KIC Journey this past summer. Its aim was to focus on how #ecosystemservices can be be integrated into urban #envrionment, with the goal of reconnecting people to nature by greening the city. In so doing, it aims to tackle issues facing the climate challenges facing the city, such as urban h…

In episode 37, we're joined by sustainability and communications consultants Laura López Cuadros and Clara Fischer, who discuss their vision for creating an impact that goes beyond growing a business. 🎙️ While attending the 2020 CYBELT #Climate-KIC Journey, they were struck by the fact that professionals today often lack the skills to advocate for …

Osayamen J. Imarhiagbe is part of the Baltic Beauty Journey. He studies Applied Geosciences at RWTH in Aachen in Germany and has a MSc in Geology from the University of Benin. Specialised in mineral exploitation, he is eager to make mining more sustainable. Osayamen grew up in Nigeria, where he has experienced the impacts of heavy rainfall first ha…

How can we demystify climate policy? In Episode 35, we meet Emma Heilig, who discusses the challenges of making climate policy accessible, the ClimaTalk platform she co-founded, and her Journey team's plan to advocate for Doughnut Cities across Europe. Emma became involved in the sustainability scene through animal rights and her opposition to anim…

In this episode we will get to know the Dublona Journey participants Maria Cantore, who tunes in from Argentina, and Hajar Bencheikh, who calls Casablanca and Lyon her home. While Hajar currently works in consultancy for clients in the energy sector in Paris, Maria leads an organization in Argentina and is politically active for climate action. Tog…

In Episode 33, we meet the team of On Cloud Wine, Eline van Remortel, Soham Datta, and Jose Carlos Lozano Garcia who met each other on the 2020 VinhoVin Lisbon-Paris Climate-KIC Journey. On Cloud Wine is a platform designed to promote greater sustainablity in the wine industry, by connecting small wine producers to universities and the tourism indu…

Hana Begovic and Emma Bertipaglia (from the Bologna-Trento-Zurich Journey) are all about nature, earth jurisprudence, biodiversity, human rights and last but not least climate justice. Forests and green areas are disappearing globally, urban development is expanding and in these times, little priority is given to preserve nature and protect biodive…

In Episode 31, we are joined by alumni from the Dublona 2020 Climate-KIC Journey, Andrea Rey and Eszter Krisan, as they discuss their interests and experiences in the field of climate action, as well as the personal projects they have been able to begin as a result of the summer school. Living in Budapest, Eszter’s climate passions lie in urban sys…

After featuring many participants of the Journey, it's time to talk to hosts again. Together with Lars Reyes-Gjølme and Laura Riuttanen from the Northern Light Journey we dig into the world of visions and projects that address climate action and sustainability in Europe. His Bachelor in Theatre brings out the creative side of Lars, whose interest h…

Ex-Journey participant, faciliator, coach and academic Anouk Talen is interested in how we creata a society by bridging the divide between nature and humans, and between humans and other humans. She is working in the Dutch National Youth Council to confront this issue. Her biggest take-away from the Journey was to get to know know her path. Listen …

Tamara Pavlović is an international relations graduate in Budapest. She joined the Limassol-Timisoara-Belgrade Journey, to gain career inspiration, and experience in the field of sustainability. While living in Budapest she noticed that while shopping becoming more popular, and the number of second hand clothes shop increasing, there are still few …

The Kosice host of the LuCKy-Journey, Martina Zelenakova, has a background in foreign relationships and civil engineering. In this episode, she tells us how much she enjoys working with and for people. Her core interest lies in improving people's life and making the world better. She highlights the importance of education, actively looking out for …

Today we talk with Kaushik Selva Dhanush Ravi. He studies Integrated Building Systems at ETH Zürich and explains to us what this Master programme and new study area is all about. Kaushik envisions a construction sector, which is sustainable and with a larger municipality engagement (top down) to reinforce the use of recycled materials and increase …

Rasa Tumaseviciute from the Bologna-Trento-Zurich Journey is currently doing a PhD on organic waste and circular bioeconomy in Lithuania. By implementing circular economy in waste management and conducting contemporary research she aims to create bio-plastic that is cost-competitive and compostable. In this short episode, we haved asked Rasa for ad…

Are you ready for the final episode of 2020? Tune in as Wiebke and Soham take you on a ride through memory lane and recap all the episodes, interesting conversations and various perspectives. The EIT Climate-KIC Journey this summer was a pure success, and our podcast serves to interconnect between all the Journeys. We picked out the best quotes fro…

Ho ho ho, Christmas is here! Today we have a very special episode coming to you directly from us, the Journey Visions Podcast team! We share some tips on how to have a more sustainable christmas, and get to hear about some very funny christmas stories from our team. From eating too much, to watching christmas movies in the mornings and diving on ch…

The Journey summer school has led to some amazing teams. One of them, 'Unwanted but delicious' is presenting their innovative idea to us today. The group, which consists of Stefan Gevaert from Belgium, Lasse Koefoed Sudergaard from Denmark and Lisa Jagau from Germany, aims to change consumer behaviour and mindset in the fashion industry. By transfo…

Today, Soham and James present another Special Entrepreneur Episode as they talk to Melissa Capcha Eulogio from the Transalpine Journey! One of five sisters, from a young age she has wanted to change the world to make it more equal and inclusive. She envisions tackling climate change and sustainability as an opportunity to address the social and en…

London hosts Lee-Ann Perkins and Katie Agar from Sustainable Ventures are a Climate-KIC partner of the Dublona Journey. They both moved to London several years ago and share their stories of how they came to work around sustainability. Lee-Anns eyes were opened when she was working to provide warm housing for vulnerable people and Katie's journey b…

An episode full of wise questions, not to miss! Changemakers Greta Rossi and Johannes Köhn, coaches of the Amsterdam-Utrecht-Berlin Journey, are learning us how to be more self-aware and reflective by asking fundamental questions. How to raise collective consciousness in our inner selves? How to reach a level of superconsciousness, where we are con…

Artist Valentina González Troudart is a special participant in the Journey as she is from South America and has a background in graphic design and arts. Climate- and development-induced droughts have caused the lake Laguna de Acuelo, which is close to her hometown of Santiago de Chile and in which she swam when we was a child, to dry out completely…

Today is World Fisheries Day! In this special ocassion we speak with Giorgiano Margaglio, from the Northern Lights Journey. He holds a bachelor in Global Governance from the University of Rome, and a Disaster Risk Management and Climate Adaptation MSc from Lund University. This has led to his current position as a disaster and risk management contr…

Picasso coach Deborah Rim Moiso is all over, literally. Interdisciplinary and holistic is within her character, which you will hear out from her very diverse interests and experiences. A summer job in Ireland and reading The Transition Handbook by Ron Hopkins woke her up imagining the future. Within the Pioneer Programme and her placement at the Tr…

In this episode, Soham and Oliver interview Maria Fritz, from the Timisoara-Belgrade-Limassol journey. Her studies include Sustainable Development in Utrecht, and the consumer perspective is the one she finds most appealing. Currently, she works as a project coordinator for local2local talents, a Dutch entity that connects young talents with farms,…

In today’s episode, Lea and Soham speak with Rugilė Matsuvičiūtė. Though not a part of the Journey, Rugile is heavily involved in environmental issues and sustainability, having her own podcast about it: Išpakuota, which means "Unpack" in Lithuanian. Her background includes French language and Lithuanian literature, yet it was during that time she …

Transalpine Journey coach Rowan Simonsen from Denmark started off in the field of microfinance and business, however, he soon realized that in order to change the world he could better focus on social innovation. He aims to find adaptive resilient solutions to the changes that are to come due to climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the coll…

Have you heard of or tasted Horchata? It's a refreshing drink, to enjoy hot or cold, and one of our Journey participants aims to make its traditional process in Spain a more sustainable and to lower emissions this way. Maria Alegría Serna (Bologna-Trento-Zürich) from Colombia came to Europe with the goal to gain more knowledge about the complexity …

Today is World Food Day! What better way there is to celebrate this than to learn about how a young entrepreneur addresses the food waste problem in the city he is living in: Lund in Sweden. Journey participant and clinical medicine researcher Soham Datta started Food Saving Lund with a few other volunteers and together, they have already saved mor…

In this episode, Dublona coaches Meret Nehe and Kurt Klusch, who both call Germany (north and south, respectively) their home, share their views on the Journey and why they experience it as a prototyping event where you should make mistakes and grow from them. Kurt dives in into the meaning of "finding your tribe" and asking the right questions, wh…

Northern Lights Journey participants Helena Patino de Artaza, Leonie Schiedek, Diana Spurzem, Harry Sutrisno, Aizo Verdonk and Julia Wünsche teamed up in an effort to make cities more sustainable in an era of climate change. In urban spaces grey infrastructure, urban heat island, decreasing biodiversity, mental health and alienation to nature are e…

Lund-Copenhagen coaches Eleanor Saunders and Balazs Kurucz are both coaches and facilitators. Eleanor has been working with the Climate-KIC community for ten years already and sees it as a circular system in itself: Acquiring skills and giving it on to next generation. This way "the Journey should be this ever-changing entity that helps people into…

Baltic Beauty (Tallinn-Riga) Journey coaches Şeyda Nur Güneş and Niv Nowbakht share an interest in working with people. Both Berlin-based, they focus on "helping people discover the gift they carry inside of them". While Seyda is addressing human behaviours and mindsets to change the current paradigm and make a more responsible living the new norm,…

Our first participant from the Madrid-Valencia Journey, Estrella Garcia Gomez, explains us how her group called Climate Protection translates complex scientific reports into more easily understandable language for the public. Because of their group diversity the content of their website (https://globalclimateprote.wixsite.com/mysiteenglish) is avai…

VinhoVin Coach Filipa Carlos from Lisbon obtained her PhD in the field of Sustainable Energy Systems and is currently seeking solutions to answer some of the most intriguing questions in transition such as whether and how it is possible "to introduce the concept of degrowth while keeping our society connected and with our standards of well-being [.…

Today, participants Monica van Leeuwen and Ceriel Lucker from the CYBELT Journey share their story with us. We talk about how Monica's parents' farm in Belgium got impacted by climate change, how to best communicate climate-friendly behaviours with your friends and about their group project: the Green Wave. It aims to reduce the gap between climate…

In Barcelona, coach Clara Giberga has experienced the power of togetherness, when communities came together for a urban gardening project. Tune in to learn about why it is important to find other people that complement you, contrast your ideas and add force. Clara also has a clear message to "think of yourself as someone who can really change thing…

In this episode, Climate-KIC coach and globetrotter Laura Janssen talks about her motivation to join the Journey as a coach, how the Journey contributes to sustainable development and about how the young generation can get involved in climate action. Laura believes that "we should use this incredible amount of knowledge, collective brain power and …

Welcome to our first interview! Today we have Climate-KIC Journey coaches Heiko Specking and Nierika Hamaekers from the Northern Lights Journey on board with us. We talk about what the Journey is, their motivation to get engaged in it and the power of the Climate-KIC community. They describe the Journey as "a place where extremely knowledgeable and…

"I should not close myself to any opportunity, it doesnt matter the format of the opportunity." Welcome to the Journey Vision podcast! In this first episode, the people behind the podcast talk about how they came to the idea of creating this podcast and the motivation that drives them. They also share their experiences of participating in the EIT C…