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August 2021

WiAA – Department for Transport Aviation Ambassador Relaunch

2021-08-16T13:07:10+01:00August 16th, 2021|Advanced Materials & Engineering, Aviation, Government|

In support of their Aviation 2050 Strategy and Reach for the Sky programme, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) appointed a number of outstanding role models to act as Aviation Ambassadors. These individuals were tasked with inspiring the next generation to take up aviation careers, champion diversity and social mobility [...]

NI Consortium chosen as Homes for Healthy Ageing Location Partner

2021-08-12T12:55:33+01:00August 12th, 2021|Innovation, Life & Health Sciences|

Connected Places Catapult has announced that a Northern Ireland consortium and Sunderland City Council are to be the first two location partners in its Homes for Healthy Ageing Programme. The Northern Ireland consortium will comprise: Ulster University Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC) Queen’s University Belfast Age NI Belfast City Council [...]

Elemental Software becomes part of Servelec

2021-08-11T14:07:34+01:00August 11th, 2021|Social Innovation|

Elemental Software, the award-winning tech for good company specialising in social prescribing technology is to become part of Servelec, the leading supplier of digital care software across health, social care, education and youth services in the UK. The acquisition of the Northern Ireland company by Servelec will see Elemental Software [...]

Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships open for applications

2021-08-10T16:27:37+01:00August 10th, 2021|Advanced Materials & Engineering|

The Royal Academy of Engineering has opened a call for its Enterprise Fellowships programme. This programme supports creative and entrepreneurial engineers who have an exceptional innovation that they plan to develop further. The programme aims to equip engineers with the confidence, skills, experience and networks needed to bring innovation to [...]

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: apply now

2021-08-04T09:26:33+01:00August 4th, 2021|Innovation|

Northern Ireland businesses are invited to apply for the UK's most prestigious business award. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise recognise and encourage the outstanding achievements of UK businesses in the fields of: innovation international trade sustainable development promoting opportunity (through social mobility) Businesses of all sizes and from all sectors [...]

July 2021

UK Innovation Strategy published

2021-07-22T14:36:57+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Government, Innovation|

New plans to boost private sector investment to put the UK at the front of the global innovation race have been set in a new Innovation Strategy launched by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Read the UK Innovation Strategy The Innovation Strategy is the UK Government’s long-term vision to put innovation [...]

Future Fund: Breakthrough is open for applications

2021-07-22T11:13:19+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Innovation, Intellectual Property|

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has launched the sequel to last year’s Future Fund: Breakthrough (FF:B). It’s a new £375m UK-wide scheme which will encourage private investors to co-invest with the government in high-growth, innovative firms. Research and development intensive businesses receiving an investment round of £30m or more will be able [...]

UKRI Funding of £42.4m for Smart Nano NI

2021-07-22T09:21:50+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Advanced Materials & Engineering|

£42.4 m has been awarded to Smart Nano NI - a Northern Ireland nano technology consortium to develop new technology for medical devices, communication and data storage.  The funding, which has been awarded by the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Strength in Places Fund presents a game-changing opportunity for Northern Ireland’s nano technology and manufacturing sector [...]

June 2021

IceMOS awarded NASA “From Moon to Mars” project

2021-06-15T10:54:03+01:00June 15th, 2021|Innovation|

The US space agency NASA has awarded IceMOS with a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to develop radiation-tolerant high-voltage MOSFET transistors as part of their "From Moon to Mars" project which will see a return to astronauts landing on the lunar surface for the first time since the 1970s [...]

DfE reports almost half of NI’s Electricity is from renewables

2021-06-07T10:23:41+01:00June 7th, 2021|Sustainable Energy|

The ‘Electricity Consumption and Renewable Generation in Northern Ireland: Year ending March 2021’ report details the percentage of electricity consumption in Northern Ireland generated from renewable sources and includes information on the type of renewable generation used. The report reflects performance against the 2011-15 Programme for Government target which was [...]

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