The Belfast Maritime Consortium has announced plans to introduce a ferry service between Bangor and Belfast Harbour, scheduled to begin operations by 2024 and will be operated by Condor Ferries. The zero-emissions ferry is being developed by the Consortium’s lead partner Artemis Technologies and will have journey times of around [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Defra open two new collaborative research and development (R&D) competitions, with over £20 million in funding available. In partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UKRI will be opening the latest two competitions from the Farming Innovation Programme (FIP) on [...]
Innovate UK is looking to recruit 40 women from across the Foundation Industries, to receive a fully-funded placement on a Women's Leadership Development programme starting this May. The programme is a part of the Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge that brings together the metals, glass, paper, ceramics, cement and bulk chemical industries [...]
Launched in 2021, Connected Places Catapult Homes for Healthy Ageing programme explores some of the most pressing challenges facing an ageing population and with the aim of allowing people to live longer, happier and healthier lives in their own homes. Connected Places Catapult has committed to delivering 5 testbeds across [...]
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub is opening applications for the September intake of its Regional Talent Engines programme for people based in Northern Ireland, North West England, North East England, and Yorkshire & the Humber The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub has opened a new round of [...]
Two Northern Ireland based start-ups have made the finals of Tech Nation’s Rising Stars 4.0 competition. Biotech and Life Sciences firm Kinva and Agrifood and Foodtech company CropSafe are amongst the 20 finalists who impressed an expert panel of judges led by GP Bullhound Vice President Ed Prior and included [...]
The consultation seeks views on the opportunities, challenges and key areas of activity to bring together connected digital and physical technologies to unleash innovation. HM Government has launched a consultation on a national Cyber-Physical Infrastructure, an ecosystem of increasingly connected digital and physical systems with the potential to help accelerate [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons has met with manufacturers at Ballymena’s ECOS Centre to launch a call to companies for projects developing innovative low carbon technologies. The Challenge Fund, delivered by the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE) hosted by Queen’s University Belfast, an industry led sustainable energy research centre, received [...]
The Department for the Economy’s Assured Skills Academy is to deliver 20 high quality training places in conjunction with Alchemy Technology Services. Funded by the Department and delivered by North West Regional College, the five-week pre-employment training programme will give participants who complete the Academy the opportunity to stay with [...]
Women in Business, Northern Ireland’s leading support network for women in the workplace is to celebrate the role of women leaders in the local technology sector next month with the inaugural Women in Tech Awards to be held at Belfast’s Europa Hotel. The Women in Tech Awards will recognise and [...]
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is currently seeking a Chair for the new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). BEIS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng recently confirmed the appointment of DARPA Deputy Director Dr Peter Highnam as the first CEO of the UK’s new advanced inventions agency and [...]
Nominations are open now for EmTech Europe’s Innovators Under 35 Festival which is being held in Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal from 19th - 21st May. Innovators Under 35 Europe Festival 2021 presents an excellent opportunity to meet the next generation of innovators, who will transform our lives through their technological advances. [...]