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Energy Crossroads is now looking for members with experience in development aid and funding application, but we encourage anyone who has an interest in energy issues and who wishes to gain influence in our work to contact us.

Please write to: allison@energycrossroads.org to learn more.

Note that we cannot offer internships.

Partners

Energy Crossroads Denmark is now an Official Partner of the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign.



Sustainable Energy Europe



Copenhagen University - Climate and Sustainability



Copenhagen Climate Council



Friends of the Earth



The Danish Society for Nature Conservation


The Innovation Camp

On April 24-25th, 2010, was held in Copenhagen, the INNOVATION CAMP, a 2-Days inspiring Workshop, in collaboration with Miljopunkt Osterbro.

Miljopunkt Osterbro is a Danish community project that is striving towards a sustainable, clean and healthy environment in the district of Copenhagen named Osterbro. Through various initiatives the project encourages the citzens, institutions and companies of Osterbro to contribute to an attitude that respects the local as well as the global environment.

One such initiative is the project 2100.nu that aspires to engage the citizens and companies of Osterbro in an innovation process looking for sustainable urban solutions. Partnering with Energy Crossroads, Miljopunkt Osterbro is looking for students who can help drive this process.

The innovation camp is the first step in this direction. Students from various disciplins meet to learn about innovation, sustainable urban development and facilitation processes. Experts from Teknologisk Institut will teach the participants about innovation processes, a member of the Kaospilots will provide an example of how to think innovatively about social structures, while a practitioner will introduce tools to facilitate processes of community building. During the workshop participants will learn hands-on how to engage community development projects with these tools.

As the focus of the particular community development project in Osterbro will be on sustainable urban development the workshop will also introduce contemporary approaches on the issues of energy, waste and transportation.

Program for the workshop

Day 1: Innovationsprocesses with Teknologisk Institut (TI)

09:00-09:30 - Registration

09:30-10:00 - Introduktion to Miljopunkt Osterbro and project 2100.nu: Jesper Minor Hansen

10:00-18:00: TI lessons and group exercises: Jorgen Hoegh

10:00-12:30 - What is innovation?, the triangulation of innovation, preferred thought patterns

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-17:30 - Presentation and exercises with the innovation model (open innovation) Creative Idea Solution (CIS): idea-creation, idea-development, idea-design

17:30-18:00 - Round-up and debate

Dag 2: Sustainable urban development and facilitation of group dynamics

09:00-10:15 - The future of cities: Carsten Beck

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-12:00 - Group work on the student campaign in relation to the 2100.nu Kick-Off event, 8th of May 2010

12:00-12:30 - Lunch

12:30-14:00 - Facilitating the process of Community building: "World Cafe": Jasmine Cargill

14:00-14:15 - Break

14:15-15:45 - Experiences from a practitioner of sustainable innovation: "Breaking the habitual thinking of social change": Phillip Hahn-Petersen

15:45-16:00 - Round-up and future events