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4th Edition of H2020 Road Transport Research European Conference November 30 – December 1 – The H2020 MOMENTUM project, is led by la Empresa Municipal De Transportes (EMT) de Madrid and Aimsun is a partner. The team will develop a set of new data analysis methods, transport models and planning support tools that can capture the impact of disruptive technologies such as MaaS and CAVs. EGVIEGLevitate, or Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles, will look at how cities, towns, regional authorities and national governments can use technology, and create new systems to accommodate the forecast growth of driverless cars, busses, taxis and pods, as well as autonomous freight and logistics. Read More

ISCF Manufacturing Made Smarter Smart Factory and Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hubs Concepts & Collaboration Building Workshop December 1- The two planned Hubs, Smart Factory Innovation Hub and Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, will be grant funded at £20m and £10m respectively, and will be tasked with bringing in further co-investment from industry. This programme is a core part in our strategy to create a connected ecosystem harnessing the power of the UK’s leading manufacturing companies, technology developers, start-ups and spinouts, and our world-leading research institutions; increasing the number of collaborations up the value chain. Read More

What next for Autonomous Technology – opportunities for the UK – December 2nd – Taking place Wednesday 2nd December, the conference will showcase the development of autonomous technology, with a focus on where we are now, what needs to happen for autonomous applications to become common place, and what steps are needed for autonomous technology, such as Connected and Autonomous vehicles (CAVs), to be accepted in day to day life. Read More

5G for content acquisition and distribution – Session 2 December 2- The Content Production & Delivery group are delivering a two part webinar series exploring ‘5G for content acquisition and distribution’ These online SIG events will introduce participants to the state of play with 5G for content distribution and production and the path to delivering the benefits 5G. Aspirational discussion of benefits of 5G for content production and distribution needs to be turned into operational reality. 5G will enhance what is possible to be achieved with current mobile systems and the advantages to distribution and consumption are obvious through bigger pipes and enhanced agility to support ever evolving content and application platforms. The possibilities for content production and acquisition are also exiting but may be less obvious. Read More

UFO SME engagement workshops – December 3rd – EU H2020 Funded Project UFO continue with their Ideation Sessions following the success of their first webinar on the 19th November to launch the project. Coming up in December, UFO will present four event sessions to SMEs interested in the following six emerging industries: Climate and Environment, Mobility Technologies, Blue Growth, and a final joint session covering Finance and Insurance, and Digital Creative and Gaming. Read More

AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions December 5 – In this free training we will be covering various topics for Microsoft certificate exam AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions. This training will be series of sessions and in each session we will be covering separate topics from official course outline of this exam. To complete the full training, you will need to attend all the sessions. Read More

automotiveEV | WEEK December 7 – December 12 – Join, Connect and Engage with Leaders from Across the Global Automotive Electric Vehicle Space. Thriving in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape | Rising to the Challenges | Building Resilience and Agility | Leveraging New Opportunities. Leaders from across the global Automotive Electric Vehicle space, will come together on our cutting-edge, fully integrated, interactive & intuitive, digital event & networking platform, for a unique 5 day event of Knowledge Sharing and Networking. Read More

Responsible AI Mini Forum: From Principles to Practice: Sharing learnings across the professional services sectors December 8 – Join the AI for Services Team for a mini-forum focused on Responsible AI, where we’ll share experiences and learnings on implementing responsible AI in the professional services sectors. The event will be of interest to professionals, entrepreneurs, data scientists and engineers developing AI & Data solutions for the high value services sectors. AI for Services is a UK wide network of 1,300 members bringing together AI & Data high growth entrepreneurs with leading professionals and academics working in the accountancy, insurance and legal services sectors. Read More

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ATI Programme strategic batch: expression of interest December 2020 : The ATI Programme represents a £3.9 billion joint government and industry investment to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive position in civil aerospace. Read More

Development of the Digital Security by Design Software Ecosystem : Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1.5 million to support SMEs working alone to explore and investigate the: requirements, dependencies and range of potential complexities. Read More

SBRI Removing air pollutants from homes to safeguard health : This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by UKRI’s Strategic Priorities Fund. The aim of the competition is to develop and demonstrate new products or services which will extract harmful pollutants from the air in domestic environments in order to safeguard the health of occupants, particularly young or vulnerable people. Read More

Manufacturing Made Smarter Innovation Hub – Smart Factory EoI : Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £20 million to set up and manage a smart factory hub. The Smart Factory Innovation Hub should focus on manufacturing operations within the factory, looking to digitally enable and connect operations from the factory floor through to the enterprise level. Read More

Manufacturing Made Smarter Innovation Hub – Digital Supply Chain EoI: Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £10 million to set up and manage a digital supply chain innovation hub. The Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub should focus on manufacturing supply chains, looking to digitally optimise and integrate these supply chains from end to end. Read More

Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: November 2020 : The Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) is a new programme that aims to establish a competitive and sustainable UK supply chain. It offers a share of up to £1 billion of funding for industrial research and capital investment projects. This will be to support the industrialisation of a high-value, electrified automotive supply at scale in the UK. Read More

ATI programme: R&D funding for smaller business, expression of interest, Autumn 2020 : Up to £8 million is allocated from the ATI Programme for SMEs to deliver world leading aerospace technologies in the UK. This supports and encourages industrial investment into the aerospace sector and its supply chain, through the funding of innovative and high impact projects. These projects will demonstrate forward-looking and disruptive solutions to UK civil aerospace challenges. Read More

Innovation continuity loans: Strand 3 November 2020 new project competition: Innovate UK is offering up to £210 million in loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and third sector organisations that have a challenge in continuing, completing or following on an innovation project. Loans are for organisations that find themselves facing a sudden shortage or even unavailability of funds resulting directly from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Innovation continuity loans: Strand 2 November 2020 follow-on competition : Innovate UK is offering up to £210 million in loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and third sector organisations that have a challenge in continuing, completing or following on an innovation project. Loans are for organisations that find themselves facing a sudden shortage or even unavailability of funds resulting directly from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

SMEs transforming food production: series A investor partnership : This competition will support UK registered micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The SMEs must be aspiring to transform food production through experimental development projects that are closer to market. Your UK registered SME will receive: grant funding and aligned investment funding from the programme’s pool of lead investors. Read More

Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2020 to 2021, round 5 : The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme allows a UK registered business or not-for-profit organisation (which we will refer to collectively as the ‘business partner’ from now on) to partner with a UK higher education (HE) or further education (FE) institution, RTO or Catapult (which we will refer to as the ‘knowledge base partner’). Read More

African agriculture knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2020 to 2021, round 5 : The African agriculture strand of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme supports a partnership between: a UK registered higher education or further education institution, research and technology organisation (RTO) or Catapult (which we will refer to as the ‘UK knowledge base partner’) an African business or not-for-profit organisation (which we will refer to collectively as the ‘business partner’) a knowledge base in Africa (which we will refer to as the ‘African knowledge base partner’).  Read More

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Catapult: Senior Market Analyst – We are looking for a Senior Market Analyst to lead secondary data analysis projects across the domains in which Connected Places Catapult operates (Mobility, Decision making & institutions, Built Environment, Public spaces, Wellbeing and Critical Infrastructure). Own and deliver market analysis as part of Catapult programmes and projects.Write clear and compelling reports summarising research findings, tailored to particular audiences. Present findings in webinars and other events. Setting up and leading stakeholder (SMEs, corporates, city authorities, third sector organisations) engagement / research (eg identifying and setting up interviews with key stakeholders). Apply

Catapult: Market Economist – We are seeking an enthusiastic Market Economist to join our Business Modelling & Market Analysis Team.  The role will provide high quality analysis to support the development and validation of financial and business models, for new, innovative products and services across a number of sectors in mobility and the built environment.  It will also provide insight into economic trends and evaluate investment potential and examine and interpret a range of data to provide insight and enable decision-makers to make informed investment decisions. Apply

Coderus: Backend Software Developer –  Part of the Innovation Martlesham high-tech cluster of companies, we offer a startup culture in which to really grow your career. As part of an enthusiastic team, you’ll be directly involved in the development of commercial software products for our clients, including a high-end international media company, and also our own innovative projects. Apply

Catapult: HR Team Lead – Working with the Head of HR, the HR Team Lead needs to be pragmatic, resilient, and willing to roll up their sleeves to get things done.  This position would suit someone who is passionate about delivering excellent HR services to the organisation. They would work closely with the Head of HR to develop and grow the HR team’s capability, strength and offering. Apply

Catapult: HR Business Partner – As a HR Business Partner you would need to be passionate about HR and the employee life cycle.  In this hands-on role they would help and support the organisations people and culture approach. As well as liaising with the organisation, the HR Business Partner would help to develop, rollout and monitor HR initiatives and programmes across the organisation. The role will work closely with the rest of the HR Team. Apply

KTN: Head of Integrated Systems – As a head of Integrate Systems, you are responsible for designing and delivering KTN’s Integrated Systems plan to ensure it reflects the IT and data requirements to support the ambitious commitments laid out in our five-year strategy. The role will lead the IT and Data & CRM teams in support of the organisation through a professional high-quality provision of IT infrastructure, telecommunications, business systems and strategic planning of future IT and data architecture requirements to support the strategy and our employees. The role will have full responsibility for the IT Service Desk, Asset Management, Security/Compliance, including on and off boarding of all staff on IT related matters. It will also be responsible for an integrated data architecture that serves KTN’s data strategy and supports KTN’s communications & analytical activity. Apply

University of Warwick: Senior Research Fellow (Aerospace) – The successful candidate will need to have a good honours degree in a relevant subject, along with a PhD in a relevant discipline and be able to evidence their capability in a subset of the areas such as; understand lithium-ion battery degradation and failure mechanisms, develop algorithms for battery state estimation, diagnostic and prognostics, in-depth knowledge of electrochemical energy storage characterisation techniques and data collection and processing techniques, particularly applied to electrochemical energy storage system. Apply

Catapult: Innovation Business Analyst – As an Innovation Business Analyst, you would be joining our Business Modelling & Market Appraisal Team.  The role will provide high-quality data analysis, qualitative research, reporting, commercial and business intelligence on new technologies across a number of domains, including mobility and the built environment. Apply

Conigital Group: Software Engineer – Reporting to the Tech Team Lead, you will take responsibility for developing key aspects and functions that form the backbone of our product portfolio (ConOP™). This includes development at different Technology Readiness Levels, writing functions to analyse data sets, develop prototypes releases of software (for pilots to prove concepts), and “glue” systems together to integrate different business applications. Apply

Conigital Group: Cloud Architect – Reporting to the CTO, you will translate business needs to technical requirements and specifications for cloud-based portfolio of products, while improving the efficiency and operations of SaaS products. You will support technical review and have a passion to design and improve digital solutions to be deployed at scale. Apply

ICAV Cluster: Vehicle Integration Engineer – Reporting to the Technical Director, the Vehicle Integration Engineer Will Lead and drive forward the definition and implementation of a vehicle x-by-wire interface that will be used to integrate with a vehicle automation platform. The x-by-wire solution will be designed to be configurable across several target vehicles. The role is not just about developing the software but also about defining and integrating the electro-mechanical mechanisms and interfaces with existing vehicle systems (e.g. introducing epas, e-braking etc). Apply

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The International Connected Autonomous Vehicle (“ICAV”) cluster has been set up to support new and existing businesses enter the growing Connected Autonomous Vehicles (“CAV”) market. KPMG research indicates that the CAV market has the potential to add £51 billion per year to the UK economy by 2030, create 320,000 new jobs and prevent 25,000 accidents saving 2500 lives per year. Find the latest Market Forecast report by Transport Systems Catapult here. ICAV are based at iCentrum, part of Innovation Birmingham, the UK’s third oldest science park and a base for the region’s growing Tech community.

ICAV membership offers great value enabling you to be part of a growing business network of international industry professionals and technology companies in the CAV sector. With annual membership starting at £145 + VAT you can attend all our events and our partners’ events for free or a discounted price!