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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

"Born in Rwanda but pan-Africa in Vision": 2026 - Putting words into practice through The ACES SPOKE programme.
31st Oct 2025 - Prof. Toby Peters SPOKE Kenya SPOKE Critical Infrastructure ACES Global south Cold-chain
A day in the life of Nepo
24th Oct 2025 - Benjamin Mugabo Farmers Agriculture Cold-chain
A Cool World: What to expect and what I am excited about!
17th Oct 2025 - Dr. Tim Fox A Cool World 2025 Critical Infrastructure Cold-chain
Help us accelerate deployment of sustainable cold-chains in the Global South and deliver a Cool World
10th Oct 2025 - Tim Fox Global south A Cool World 2025
Lots of fun and some life-changing conversations – ACES Festival of Cooling
3rd Oct 2025 - Toby Peters Vaccines Refrigeration One Health ACES
Equitable and inclusive cold-chains – putting the vision into practice
25th Sep 2025 - Toby Peters, Dr. Leyla Sayin Global south One Health Critical Infrastructure GESI Refrigeration Centre of Excellence Models

News articles

Try Before You Buy
4th Nov 2025 Refrigeration
IOR And ACES Sign MOU to Foster International Collaboration
28th Oct 2025 ACES Training Refrigeration A Cool World 2025
ACES and Clean Cooling Network’s Train the Trainer Programme secured accreditation
27th Oct 2025 Training ACES
Visual storytelling for a Cool World – CCN to collaborate with Panos Pictures
22nd Oct 2025 Cold-chain Training Photography
The #FestivalOfCooling Round Up
13th Oct 2025
Start-Ups Meet Experts in Innovation Clinic
9th Oct 2025 Festival of cooling

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: Admiring the photo exhibition
31st Oct 2025
Picture of the week: A solar-powered refrigerator
24th Oct 2025 ACES
Picture of the Week: Festival ice cups
17th Oct 2025
Picture of the week: Winner of the Clean Cooling Photo Award 2025
10th Oct 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

Foundation in Cold-Chain - India
Haryana HACE
Essentials in Brazing Techniques for Refrigeration Systems Course
Technician Brazing Refrigeration
Essentials course on Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
Phase change management

Network News

The latest from the global Clean Cooling community

Try Before You Buy

Derisking Cold-Chain Systems to help farmers validate business models in Kenya The uniqueness and advantage of the Try Before You Buy offer is that the associated technology is only introduced after farmers and cooperative leaders have undergone...

4th Nov 2025

IOR And ACES Sign MOU to Foster International Collaboration

The Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) and the African Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Cold Chain (ACES) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration and promote the exchange of ideas and expertise.

28th Oct 2025

ACES and Clean Cooling Network’s Train the Trainer Programme secured accreditation

The Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) has formally accredited the Train the Trainer Programme delivered by the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) and the Clean Cooling Network (CCN) at the ACES campus...

27th Oct 2025

Visual storytelling for a Cool World – CCN to collaborate with Panos Pictures

Through the partnership with Panos Pictures, the Clean Cooling Image Database will serves as a dedicated professional asset for sharing images with external clients, stakeholders, and the media.

22nd Oct 2025

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