Dr Peter Highnam will head up the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) as its first CEO, from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has today (1 February 2022) appointed Dr Peter Highnam as Chief Executive of the UK’s new Advanced Research and [...]
To support and accelerate the digitalisation of the manufacturing industry, KTN is working with UKRI to drive innovation to support the adoption of digital technology through Made Smarter. Made Smarter is one of the Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programmes, investing £147m into creating a fully connected, dynamic manufacturing ecosystem [...]
The Regulatory Horizons Council is currently seeking a new Chairperson. Based within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the role is based in London, but applications are welcome from those based outside London but with the expectation they may need to travel to London periodically with a time [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will shortly announce funding opportunities for new Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) World-Leading Researcher Fellows. This further investment to double the number of Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows was announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak following the success of the first five fellows announced last year. These prestigious [...]
A number of competitions from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) will run this year and ICE is seeking student or graduate members in Northern Ireland to apply. The Emerging Engineers award is open to student and graduate members and applicants are invited to submit papers on any topic related [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons has announced that Queen’s University Belfast and NVIDIA will invest £5.4 million in a joint Research and Development (R&D) project with the aim to accelerate artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber security research in Northern Ireland. Part of the project will be funded through a £1.7 million R&D grant [...]
The Small Business Research Initiative provides the public sector with innovative solutions to problems that will drive improvement, and allows suppliers to develop products and services working collaboratively with the public-sector, enabling them to develop new skills, expertise and markets. Any public sector organisation may apply for SBRI funding. Projects [...]
The Department for the Economy is offering 20 high quality training places in its Accelerate Digital Assured Skills Academy with IT Consulting, Solutions and Managed Services delivery provider Version 1. Funded by the Department, the Assured Skills Academy will see successful applicants receive practical, real world training for roles as [...]
The Chair of the Matrix Panel, Dr Robert Grundy, has given evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee’s Inquiry on Investment Northern Ireland alongside Prof Emma Flynn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Queens University Belfast and Philip McBride, Belfast Managing Director at Thales UK. Dr Grundy told the Committee [...]
UK Research and Innovation has launched a consultation on the organisation’s new equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy. Setting out an ambition for an inclusive research and innovation system, the new strategy will detail the organisation’s long-term commitment to achieving this aim. The open consultation runs from 13 January with [...]
Steve Orr, Matrix panel member and Chief Executive of Catalyst, the Northern Ireland innovation hub, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to innovation. Prior to succeeding Dr Norman Apsley as Chief Executive of Catalyst in 2018, Steve founded Connect at Catalyst, a not-for-profit [...]
UK and NI Executive Ministers gathered at the ICC Belfast this morning to sign the first ever City Deal for Northern Ireland. The Belfast Region City Deal unlocks £1 billion of transformative co-investment which will deliver more than 20 highly ambitious projects and programmes, create up to 20,000 new and [...]