May 15
Following the Technology Strategy Board’s announcement in March of its “Long-term care revolution” call for sandpit participants, the Ageing Research Special Interest Group at Northumbria are planning to hold a two-hour workshop for staff who’ve expressed an interest in the call and potential applicants. This will take place on 22nd May in City Campus, Lipman Building, Room 035 between …
Apr 04
TSB is investing up to £5m in feasibility projects and collaborative research and development projects to accelerate the development of new ways of designing, improving and manufacturing complex high-value formulated products in sectors such as: pharmaceuticals cosmetics detergents food agrochemicals paints adhesives lubricants formulated process chemicals There is a further £1m available from the Engineering …
Mar 12
The ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, a European public-private partnership for research funding in embedded systems, has recently released its 2013 call for funding. The deadline for full proposals is 6th June 2013. You can read a summary of the call on the ARTEMIS 2013 call page. Full details can be found on the EU Participant Portal call page - you should read …
Feb 27
The AHRC is one of the organisers of a one-day workshop for games developers and researchers from the arts and humanities to explore creative ways of working together. The workshop will take place on 20th March from 9am until 4.30pm in at Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, with a drinks reception and networking event on the …
Dec 05
3D Printing, or to give it its slightly less memorable moniker “additive manufacturing”, has been hailed as a revolutionary and game-changing tool for design and manufacturing. Although it is already well established, market uptake has been slow. The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is now collaborating with AHRC, EPSRC, and ESRC to fund business-led industrial research …
Sep 03
The Technology Strategy Board has unveiled a new Innovation Voucher scheme which provides funding for businesses to work with an external expert for the first time, to help them gain new knowledge in order to innovate, develop and grow. Businesses can work with a range of expert suppliers including universities. The vouchers, which should help …
Aug 29
The Technology Strategy Board, together with EPSRC and DSTL, have issued a call for feasibility studies to encourage technologies which can promote energy efficient computing and communications devices. For many years, electronic and computing systems and the software which runs on them have been designed with a view to ever-improved performance. However, there is now greater …
Jun 29
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has published its strategy for investing in the UK’s High Value Manufacturing sector: High Value Manufacturing Strategy: 2012-2015 The HVM sector is a major contributor to the global and UK economies, however increasingly globalisation has led to a shift in the manufacturing base to countries with lower labour costs. The …
May 22
The Technology Strategy Board is leading a consortium of funders (including EPSRC and DECC) in a major funding call to stimulate innovation in the civil nuclear power supply chain. The call comes in the context of the UK coalition government’s draft energy bill, which is expected to prioritise investment in nuclear energy and gas. The …
Apr 11
The Technology Strategy Board recently announced that the final two Catapult centres will focus on Future Cities and Transport Systems. These centres will join the five already announced in High Value Manufacturing, Cell Therapy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Satellite Applications and the Connected Digital Economy. According to the TSB, the latest two Catapults will “bring business …
