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 [...]
Former Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast Professor Sir Peter Gregson has been appointed Chair of the Henry Royce Institute, the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research and innovation. Speaking about his appointment, Sir Peter said: “The Henry Royce Institute is a national asset for Advanced Materials Research and Innovation [...]
The Connected Places Catapult (CPC) has announced the names of the five companies that will work on the housing technology testbed projects in Northern Ireland. It has revealed details of plans for the Homes for Healthy Ageing programme, which involves a consortium of agencies in Northern Ireland running trials of digital [...]
As the region works towards the Derry & Strabane City Deal which will see Derry - Londonderry becoming a Hub for AI and Data Analytics, academic and industry researchers gathered (virtually and in person) at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) at Ulster University’s Magee campus this Autumn for the first ever ‘ISRC-CN3 Autumn School’. [...]
Finance Minister Conor Murphy has encouraged individuals and businesses to apply for grants of up to £5,000 as he launched the Open Data Innovation and Outreach Fund. Whether it’s building an app or interactive data visualisation, organising a hackathon or coming up with a new way to examine the impact [...]