The Irish Academy of Engineering has announced the revival of the award of the Parsons Medal and is seeking nominations for the award from engineers or engineering scientists of exceptional ability in research or engineering technology, designated as “The Irish Academy of Engineering Parsons Medal for Engineering Sciences” Background The Parsons Medal commemorates [...]
Economy Minister Simon Hamilton today announced a new £80k Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition to develop innovative, real time tourism technology solutions. The SBRI competition is seeking technology solutions to encourage visitors to explore more, do more and spend more during their visit to Northern Ireland. The Minister said: [...]
Environment Minister Michelle McIlveen has officially launched a new £350k Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition to encourage and stimulate the development of innovative remediation technologies for the Mobuoy Road waste site and other illegal waste sites. Funding for this SBRI competition has come from the Executive’s Pilot SBRI Challenge [...]
Belfast City Council has launched an initiative to become a Smart City, looking at new and innovative ways to tackle traditional urban challenges and support the city’s aims and ambitions. The council is working with the Future Cities Catapult and city partners to develop a long-term road map towards a smart Belfast. [...]
St Patrick’s High School, Keady, County Armagh has won the award for ‘Best Northern Ireland School’ as well as ‘BT Northern Ireland Best Project’. Their project, entitled ‘Power Down to Power Up’, was entered in the Social & Behavioural Sciences category at junior level and the group also received 2nd [...]
Innovate UK and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) are to invest up to £20m in collaborative research & development projects to significantly reduce the mass of road-going vehicles. The aim is to bring together and develop the best UK supply chain capability and expertise in the areas of advanced lightweight materials, [...]
Dr. Rob Hardeman has been named as the 2015 HRH Prince of Wales Ambassador for Corporate Responsibility in Northern Ireland by Business in the Community Northern Ireland (BITCNI). Rob, who is Technologist (Senior Director) at Seagate and Chair of the MATRIX Advanced Manufacturing panel has personally championed the development of a number of projects [...]
Colleges NI officially unveiled Further Education’s top innovators on the 27th May and rewarded them for coming up with a raft of exciting new projects linked to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). A range of prizes and awards were presented at the Business & Education Through Skills & Training (BEST) [...]
Over 200 FE students will showcase their creativity and innovation in STEM projects at the 5th annual BEST event in Belfast's Ramada Plaza Hotel on the 27th May. The BEST Awards are open to students from Northern Ireland's (NI) six regional FE colleges and offer an annual competition linked to their studies in the areas of [...]
A team led by Matrix panellist Jim McLaughlin has joined forces with a Silicon Valley Medtech company in a bid to create a real life Tricorder - the fictional hand held device featured in Star Trek. The local team, called zensor, and the US team, Scanadu, were named as two of ten [...]
Local entrepreneurs could win up to €280,000 through InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition 2015. The competition is now in its 13th year and is looking for young companies from all business sectors to apply. The Seedcorn competition mirrors the real life investment process and is aimed at early and new start [...]
The 2015 European Social Innovation Competition has been launched, with €50 000 in prize money for the top three project ideas. Now in its third year, the competition is aimed at individuals and organisations that have 'game changing' ideas for EU social innovation projects. This years’ theme ‘New Ways to [...]