Climate Event 2024

The Climate Centre of the University of Twente is proud to invite you to its first annual Climate Event on November 5, 2024. At this first edition of the Climate Event, you will connect with researchers, industry professionals, policy makers and students who want to collaborate to address climate change. Join us and let’s work together to create a sustainable future for our planet!

REGISTRATION

You can preregister for the Climate Event now. If you do, you'll be informed as soon as ticketing is open!

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THE PROGRAMME

Highlights
  • Discover the latest climate-related research and innovation at the University of Twente
  • Expand your network: connect with 200 researchers, industry professionals, policymakers and students
  • Get inspired by keynote speakers and leading scientists Derk Loorbach and Valérie Trouet
Highlights
  • Discover the latest climate-related research and innovation at the University of Twente
  • Expand your network: connect with 200 researchers, industry professionals, policymakers and students
  • Get inspired by keynote speakers and leading scientists Derk Loorbach and Valérie Trouet
Highlights
  • Discover the latest climate-related research and innovation at the University of Twente
  • Expand your network: connect with 200 researchers, industry professionals, policymakers and students
  • Get inspired by keynote speakers and leading scientists Derk Loorbach and Valérie Trouet

The Climate Event offers a varied and inspiring programme, combined with plenty of networking opportunities. Listen to inspiring keynote speakers, leaders in the field of climate challenges. Join thematic parallel sessions about energy, weather extremes, or smart sustainable industry, and discover the pioneering research that takes place at University of Twente. Meet researchers & industry professionals to find opportunities for collaboration at the poster presentation market.

Keynote speakers

We are proud to announce that the keynote speakers at the Climate Event 2024 are Derk Loorbach, director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Valérie Trouet, director of the Belgian Climate Research Centre and Professor of Tree-ring research at the University of Arizona.

Derk Loorbach

Derk Loorbach is director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Derk is one of the founders of the transition management approach as new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. 

Valerie Trouet

Valérie Trouet is scientific director of the Belgian Climate Centre and professor in the Laboratory of Tree-ring Research at the University of Arizona (USA). There, she studies the evolution of past climate by analysing tree rings, a science called dendroclimatology, which allows her to study climate over a 2,000-year period.

In 2020, Valérie Trouet wrote a book about this for the general public in the US (‘Tree Story’), which has been translated into Dutch (‘Wat bomen ons vertellen’).

About the Climate Centre

As a centre, our mission is to empower students, staff, and society to maximize their impact on the world's climate challenges. Our strategic goal is to foster and connect the University of Twente's climate-related research and educational strengths, collaborate with stakeholders to enhance impact, facilitate a sense of community, and represent and provide a clear ear, face, and voice to the world.

We welcome all students, staff and partners who want to contribute to climate solutions through concerted actions, knowledge, and expertise development.