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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

The Vaccine Cold-Chain Symposium charts a new path for climate-resilient immunisation across Africa
25th Nov 2025 Vaccines Vaccine Cold-chain Training Temperature Solar Resilience One Health & Resilience One Health Climate Resilience Capacity Building & Training ACES
We have trained 2,000+ across Africa and are setting course to double capacity during 2026
18th Nov 2025 - Prof. Toby Peters ACES Training Technician Refrigeration Policymakers GESI Farmers Capacity Building & Training
ACES graduate hopes to become Rwanda's leading supplier of rabbit meat
17th Nov 2025 - Raphael Henry ACES Value Addition Technician Refrigeration Market Needs & Consumer Behaviour Festival of cooling Farmers Entrepreneurs & Innovators Critical Infrastructure Cold-chain
Optimising the Vaccine Cold-Chain for Resilient Immunisation in Africa
14th Nov 2025 - Dr. Shema Hugor, Jean Pierre Musabyimana Climate Resilience ACES Africa Critical Infrastructure One Health One Health & Resilience Refrigeration Resilience Rwanda Solar Vaccine Cold-chain Vaccines
Inspired by the CCN’s Cold-Chain for Global Health Programme
12th Nov 2025 - Jean Pierre Musabyimana Africa ACES Public Health Rwanda Training Vaccine Cold-chain Vaccines Policy One Health & Resilience One Health Logistics Health Supply Chains Critical Infrastructure Cold-chain
"Born in Rwanda but pan-Africa in Vision": 2026 - Putting words into practice through The ACES SPOKE programme.
31st Oct 2025 - Toby Peters Cold-chain ACES Value Addition Training Technology Innovation & Demonstration TBYB SPOKE Sustainable Development Kenya SPOKE Global South Critical Infrastructure

News articles

Launch of a fast-tracked mini Centre of Excellence in Haryana, India
12th Nov 2025 Training Sustainable Post Harvest Management India Haryana Food Security Farmers Cold-chain Centre of Excellence
Try Before You Buy
4th Nov 2025 TBYB Kenya SPOKE Refrigeration SPOKE
IOR And ACES Sign MOU to Foster International Collaboration
28th Oct 2025 ACES Training A Cool World 2025 Refrigeration
ACES and Clean Cooling Network’s Train the Trainer Programme secured accreditation
27th Oct 2025 ACES Training
Visual storytelling for a Cool World – CCN to collaborate with Panos Pictures
22nd Oct 2025 Cold-chain Photography Training
The #FestivalOfCooling Round Up
13th Oct 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: The ACES Team
28th Nov 2025
Picture of the week: A farmer's workshop
21st Nov 2025 Cold-chain Farmers Training
Picture of the week: Female Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (RAC) technicians
14th Nov 2025 Training ACES Capacity Building & Training GESI Refrigeration
Picture of the week: Engagement session with the KOTUNGO Cooperative
7th Nov 2025

Job vacancies

HR and OPS Assistant
Office-based in Kigali, Rwanda - 15/01/2026 start ACES Open position
SPOKE Programme Manager
Remote plus Office-Based in Kenya, or Rwanda - 15/01/2026 start Open position SPOKE Kenya SPOKE Hub & SPOKE
Marketing and Agribusiness Lead
Office-based in Nairobi, Kenya - Immediate start Closed position Manager

Training courses

Brazing Techniques for Refrigeration Systems
Refrigeration Technician Brazing
Foundation in Cold-Chain - Kenya
Foundation in Cold-Chain - India
HACE Haryana

Network News

The latest from the global Clean Cooling community

Launch of a fast-tracked mini Centre of Excellence in Haryana, India

A mini Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Crop Post-harvest Management and Cold-Chain (CoE-SPMCC) to revolutionise sustainable cooling and cold-chain ecosystems in Haryana, India is being set up.

12th Nov 2025

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

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