The Pioneers into Practice programme is included as an activity in the Climate-KIC Business Plan 2012 as part of the Entrepreneurship pillar. It aims to change the day to day practices of professionals with current responsibilities in business, government and research. The narrow specialisation of these roles is unsuited to the demands of systemic innovation. Sector specific managers need to become boundary-crossing low carbon entrepreneurs.

The Pioneers into Practice programme is included as an activity in the Climate-KIC Business Plan 2012 as part of the Entrepreneurship pillar. It aims to change the day to day practices of professionals with current responsibilities in business, government and research. The narrow specialisation of these roles is unsuited to the demands of systemic innovation. Sector specific managers need to become boundary-crossing low carbon entrepreneurs.

Las decisiones y acciones tomadas durante los procesos de diseño, desarrollo, producción y utilización de productos y servicios, están íntimamente ligadas al consumo de recursos renovables y, particularmente, a los no renovables. Cualquier intervención de los sujetos en el ambiente genera, inevitablemente, algún tipo de impacto. En el sector de materiales compuestos este impacto es particularmente negativo, atentando contra la salud de los sujetos que participan en el ciclo de vida del producto, y afectando al equilibrio ambiental.

The recent downturn that has affected the life of many Latin American countries has reshaped its expectations and possibilities of improvement. In this context, the university regains the leading role it once had. Society considers the university as the path to generate innovative strategies that can contribute to social mobility and attend to structural problems.