FAQ Launch Challenge

Our internet platform has a multi-lingual capacity built in. We plan to switch to the multi-lingual mode when we have enough members in a few major linguistic regions to allow for the translation of our articles by our members and its verification.

In general, the only restriction that we impose on manuscripts submitted to Climanosco is that they must be based on scientific results that have already been published in recognized peer-reviewed journals in the area of climate sciences. However, for this challenge specifically, we had to require that authors submit what we called “paraphrased articles”. The reason is that we are still a small community and our capacity to peer-review manuscripts in a reasonable period of time and with quality is limited. Following our rules, “paraphrased articles” that are submitted by an author of the original scientific article do not need to be peer-reviewed by Scientific Referees. Having an original author onboard is normally sufficient to ensure that the content is consistent with the original scientific article. This is also overall verified by the Editor. The “paraphrased articles” nonetheless go through a non-scientific peer-review to ensure their accessibility to a large public. So, by restricting the challenge to this type of submissions, we were able to increase the number of admitted manuscript for this challenge.

Climanosco is being funded by its founder and relies on the work of all members and especially of the Board of Directors. They are willing to take this challenge because Climanosco means something personally to all of them.

Our strategy is based on a high value engagement business model. In other words, we rely on quality elbow grease! We take great care to maximise the ratio output/costs by doing a lot of “home-made” thanks to our access to brilliant students and by capitalising on our community’s engagement. Financially, Climanosco relies on membership fees (free for 2015-2016), capped donations and the occasional sale of publications or other products. We offer our main end-product, namely our published articles, for free. This is for Climanosco the fairest possible publicity and the best way to engage more people around the world to contribute to our effort.
Note that we are organising this September-October 2015 a Crowdfunding campaign to raise our first money.

Submission of manuscripts to Climanosco is open at all times, including during our launch challenge 2015. However, we require your patience if you submit a manuscript during this challenge, as the community is working hard to streamline the manuscripts participating to the challenge.

Yes, Climanosco’s membership is available for free for 2015-2016. But then we plan to introduce annual membership fees. If your donation is associated with a membership voucher, you will be able redeem the voucher once the membership fees are introduced.

Climanosco has its legal domicile in at the Impact Hub Zurich, Switzerland, at the address:

Climanosco
c/o The Hub Zurich Association
Viaduktstrasse 93-95
8005 Zurich

The Impact Hub Zurich is part of a network of hubs around the world providing entrepreneurs co-sharing spaces, workshops, and networking possibilities.

Climanosco is independent at both the financial and governance levels. Climanosco is a non-profit association exclusively governed by its members. It does not accept institutional members. Donations are capped and Climanosco does not engage with any partnership with its donors.