National Cooperation Climate Centres

The Netherlands has a large number of (university) climate centres and institutes. Since 2024, nine climate centres have been meeting periodically in a national consultation chaired by prof. Dr. Caroline Katsman, Academic Lead Climate Science at the KIN.

KIN initiated this consultation in 2024 to stimulate more collaboration to jointly tackle challenges, learn from each other to address urgent climate issues in society, and better facilitate transformative, transdisciplinary collaboration. At the end of 2025 KIN initiated the concept of KIN-hubs, where a group of climate centers work together to develop a common training modules, and best practices on how to best support climate transitions.

Participating Climate Centres:

• SEVEN – University of Amsterdam (Uva)
• Climate Expertise Center Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
• TU Delft Climate Action Programme
• Wubbo Ockels School for Energy & Climate, University of Groningen
• UT Climate Centre
• Delta Climate Center
• Pathways to Sustainability (Utrecht University)
• NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
• Wageningen University & Research