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At the Clean Cooling Network our team are continually working and publishing, features, opinions and facts related to clean cooling and the cold-chain. Take a birds-eye view of what's been happening recently across the network.

Features & opinion from By Degrees

Lots of fun and some life-changing conversations – ACES Festival of Cooling
3rd Oct 2025 - Prof. Toby Peters Refrigeration Vaccines ACES One Health
Equitable and inclusive cold-chains – putting the vision into practice
25th Sep 2025 - Toby Peters, Dr. Leyla Sayin Refrigeration One Health GESI Critical Infrastructure
World Ozone Day
16th Sep 2025 - Dr. Tim Fox ACES
The science of food freezing
9th Sep 2025 - Prof. Judith Evans Frozen food
Zombie appliances
5th Sep 2025 - A Cool World 2025 Refrigeration
Cold-chain deployment: Questions from history
3rd Sep 2025 - Dr. Edward Hammond A Cool World 2025 Refrigeration

News articles

Students explore cooling innovations at ACES festival
8th Oct 2025 - Ruzindana Rugasa Festival of cooling
The Festival Of Cooling mid-week round up
8th Oct 2025 Festival of cooling Photography ACES
Strengthening Africa’s Cold-chain Capacity: Lessons and Impact from Four Foundation Course Cohorts
6th Oct 2025 Training Cold-chain
We’re getting activity-ready for the Festival of Cooling
30th Sep 2025 - ACES
The brazing torch comes back longer and stronger!
30th Sep 2025 ACES Brazing Training
Harnessing Thermal Energy: Essentials Course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Sustainable Cooling
25th Sep 2025

Events & webinars

ACES Supplier Event
23rd September 2024 at 13:00 CEST
Cooling as Critical Infrastructure to Survive and Thrive - with Dr Tim Fox
22nd August 2024 at 13:00 CEST Basic Critical Infrastructure
Cold-chain through the lens of GESI - with Asha Singh
25th September 2024 at 14:00 CEST
Viable Cold-Chain Business Models
14th November 2024 at 13:00 CET
Cold-Chain Design Model For Developing Markets
15th October 2024 at 14:00 CEST
Conducive Policy Environments For Cold-Chains
3rd October 2024 at 13:00 CEST

Picture of the week

Picture of the week: A field visit at Rwanda Medical Supply
3rd Oct 2025
Picture of the week: Cyprien's uncertainty
26th Sep 2025
Picture of the week: Rotting red peppers
19th Sep 2025
Picture of the week: Tree tomato
12th Sep 2025

Job vacancies

Marketing and Agribusiness Lead
Office-based in Nairobi, Kenya - Immediate start Manager
Teaching Monitoring, Evaluation, and Course Quality Control Manager
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda - Immediate start Manager
Maintenance Technician
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda - Immediate start Technician

Training courses

Essentials in Brazing Techniques for Refrigeration Systems Course
Brazing Refrigeration Technician
Essentials course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
Phase change management
Cold-chain specifications and commissioning course
Cold-chain Refrigeration

Network News

The latest from the global Clean Cooling community

Students explore cooling innovations at ACES festival

The Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) and the Clean Cooling Network, hosted a successful Schools and Education Day during the ongoing Festival of Cooling, bringing together students and teachers from eight secondary...

8th Oct 2025

The Festival Of Cooling mid-week round up

What better way to show all the great activity at the Festival of Cooling so far than a mid-week photo round-up? From innovative technologies to ice cream and lollies, the Festival keeps getting cooler and cooler!

8th Oct 2025

Strengthening Africa’s Cold-chain Capacity: Lessons and Impact from Four Foundation Course Cohorts

Over 55 early-career professionals, agripreneurs, engineers, and health specialists have now graduated from the four cohorts of the Cold-chain Foundation Course delivered between May 2024 and August 2025.

6th Oct 2025

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