A new ‘Civic Dollars’ mobile phone app, developed with support from Belfast City Council and the Department of Justice means that people can now earn rewards for the time they spend in their local parks and open spaces. The Connswater Community Greenway will be the first area to go live [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The safety management requirement to record the presence of sailors on board ships is being overhauled using new technologies developed by Belfast company Kinsetsu which are currently being trialled by the Royal Navy. The traditional system for recording sailors entering or leaving a vessel is a simple pegging in/out board. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
£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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]