Climate Engine: Impact Pathway Facilitator Training

Connected problems need connected solutions

Climate risks, systemic disruptions, and investment decisions no longer exist in isolation. Modern challenges intersect, reinforce one another, and require coordinated, portfolio-level solutions.

The Impact Pathway Toolkit is designed to help companies, cities and organisations:

• Build situational awareness through structured risk scenarios

• Identify and define integrated climate and innovation actions

• Assess interdependencies between actions

• Analyse portfolios and visualise combined impacts

Rather than evaluating actions in isolation, the Impact Pathway approach reveals how decisions influence one another — helping organisations select actions that deliver the greatest overall benefit.

Typical applications include:

• Corporate or city climate roadmaps

• Risk management and preparedness plans

• Investment and innovation portfolios

• Organisational strategy processes

• Prospective impact assessments

The Toolkit is a facilitator-oriented prototype built from open-source components. It provides a practical method for analysing combined effects between actions and supports portfolio-level decision-making.

The Four Phases of the Impact Pathway

• Situational awareness through future scenarios

• Identification and definition of integrated actions

• Assessment of utility and interdependencies

• Portfolio analysis and visualisation of results

What You Will Learn

By the end of the programme, participants will:

• Understand when and where the Impact Pathway method creates added value

• Use the Toolkit prototype independently

• Prepare and structure evaluation forms

• Extract and analyse results

• Conduct portfolio calculations

• Visualise findings clearly

• Facilitate Impact Pathway workshops for companies, cities and organisations

This is a hands-on facilitator training — not just theory.

Participants completing all sessions receive an official Impact Pathway Facilitator Certificate.

Programme Structure

Participants attend all three training modules and related clinics. All times are EET.

Training I

10 March 2026 | 15:00–16:00

What is Impact Pathway, when does it add value, and how do you put the tool into practice?

Clinic: 11 March | 14:00–16:00

Training II

13 March 2026 | 12:00–14:00

How do you engage participants, design evaluation forms, guide assessments and structure scenarios?

Clinic: 18 March | 13:00–15:00

Training III

20 March 2026 | 15:00–16:00

How do you extract results, run portfolio calculations and interpret the findings?

Clinic: 27 March | 14:00–16:00

Implementation & Preparation

Before the training, participants are invited to:

• Install OpenSolver with the Couenne optimisation engine: https://opensolver.org

• Create a KoboToolbox account: https://www.kobotoolbox.org

• Create a Kumu.io account: https://kumu.io

• Download the prototype tool: https://bit.ly/4s3Qjkr

Participants may test the prototype before training. A slightly updated version may be introduced prior to the sessions.

Who Should Attend?

The training is designed for professionals interested in:

• Scenario structuring and portfolio decision analysis

• Climate action planning

• Innovation portfolio management

• Regional and city-level strategy processes

• Facilitating systemic decision-making

Suitable for consultants, sustainability experts, city planners, innovation managers, researchers and ecosystem facilitators.

No maximum group size.

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Methodological Foundations

The approach is grounded in:

• Morphological Scenario Analysis

• Cross-Consistency Assessment

• Portfolio Decision Analysis

Selected academic foundations include work published in Science of the Total Environment and Sustainability (2024–2025).

Trainers

Miika Kajanus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miikakajanus/

Antti Kotimaa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antti-kotimaa/

Experienced researchers and practitioners in portfolio decision analysis, climate roadmaps and systemic foresight methodologies.

Register Now at https://bit.ly/4kVALgj

Registration closes 6 March 2026

Join us to become a certified Impact Pathway Facilitator and learn how to design connected solutions for complex challenges.

Connected problems demand connected thinking!