The Young Climathon entails:
- A 1- to 2-day city climate hackathon
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Students work on the city‘s and partners‘ challenges and develop solutions
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Students start transforming their solution into a project or business idea
- Use of innovative and digital technologies
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Input from experts, fellow students & entrepreneurs and mentoring from coaches and EIT Climate-KIC Alumni
- Students pitch their idea in front of a jury
Timeline

The timeline of Young Climathon is set up as follows:
Local responsibilities
Local responsibilities to run a Young Climathon are:
- 1-3 clear, relevant and well-phrased climate challenges
- Involve students in the creation and definition of the challenges
- Involvement of local authority
- Use of Young Climathon website, registration, and branding
- A venue for the 1 or 2-day hackathon that can host for the whole event
- Coaching to accompany the Young Climathon
- Agenda with speakers, coaches
- Data and material from the organisers as hacking stimulus
- Local prize for the winning team
Hosting a Young Climathon
Partners can deliver the Young Climathon in one of the following ways:
- Co-create and define local climate challenges with students, schools, a city or companies and join forces with another organisation to organise the event
- Create and formulate local climate challenges and organise the Young Climathon yourself
- Contact Climate-KIC about organisations we have in our network that can help you deliver your Young Climathon