Liopa has successfully achieved funding from Innovate UK in its “Funding Competition for Business-led Innovation in Response to Global Disruption.” The financial award is part of a £40m package from the UK government to bolster technology and research-focused companies who are working to build resilience during the Covid crisis. Liopa [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced that two NI consortia have been selected out of a total of 17 projects across the UK which will receive up to £50k each to lead development of a new regional research consortium. The two successful NI projects are a Smart Nano-Manufacturing Corridor [...]
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has released its contact tracing mobile application, which is available on both Android and iOS. The app will automatically tell users in Northern Ireland if they have been near someone who tests positive for COVID-19. The first app of its kind to be [...]
The Department for International Trade has launched the Technology Export Academy, a new cohort programme for high performing technology SMEs. The aim of the Academy is to support UK based SMEs to grow their export markets through a structured programme of support. The current cohort focuses on Smart Cities subsectors: Smart Infrastructure [...]
Northern Ireland’s tech sector stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of “Bounce-Back” plans to help firms recover from the challenges of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking to business owners from the country at a virtual event, the UK Minister for Exports, Graham Stuart, and Minister of State for Northern [...]
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has announced £2.5million in support for 13 projects as part of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). SBRI enables the public sector to tap into new ideas and technologies through funding competitions to business, resulting in new opportunities for companies who can provide solutions to the [...]
The government has announced 2 significant new support packages that will help protect the science jobs that will be essential for our future prosperity, and ensure that critical research projects can continue: from this autumn, UK universities will be able to access a series of government grants and long-term, low [...]
More start-ups and innovative firms will be able to apply for investment from the government’s Future Fund from today. companies which have participated in accelerator programmes now eligible for the popular scheme more than 320 early-stage, high-growth firms have so far benefitted from £320 million of support through the Fund [...]
A Belfast Maritime Consortium led by Artemis Technologies has won a £33 million UK Government innovation grant to develop zero emissions ferries in the city, that will revolutionise the future of maritime transport. With further investment from consortium partners, the total project investment will reach close to £60m over the [...]
Innovative ideas and projects led by companies recovering from the impact of coronavirus will not be lost, thanks to a new £200 million fund launched on the 27th of June. The Sustainable Innovation Fund will help companies recovering from the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) who need urgent financial support to keep [...]
A new scheme to encourage girls to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) gets underway today. Matrix, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, has been working closely with WISE, a UK body committed to encouraging women and girls to take up careers in science and engineering, to [...]
Tech Nation has announced that, not only are applications open for their Fintech 3.0 and Applied AI 2.0 programmes, but that they are launching a brand new programme for companies that help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to Net Zero by 2050. With the aim to help scale UK [...]