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Smart City Dilemma Sessions: January 7, 2021 – The aim of these sessions is to highlight a Smart City topic together, to share knowledge based on the latest insights and to identify important dilemmas. After every Smart City Dilemma session we will ask our guests to come back during a podcast to go deeper into what we have talked about and to reflect on what they have learned. We do not work on solutions, but we want to question these solutions. Register Here

Future of Unmanned Space Systems: January 07, 2021 – This webinar will feature two subject matter experts: Ms. Kara Cunzeman (Lead Futurist, Strategic Foresight, Center for Space Policy and Strategy, Aerospace Corporation) and Dr. Julia Badger (Autonomous Systems Technology Discipline Lead, NASA). Register Here

Future Transport for East Bristol and beyond: January 11, 2021 – Are you able to make the journeys you want to make? Can you get on the bus with your kids, your shopping, or a wheelchair? What would your dream journey be like? We are creating a plan for how to make getting around easier, to take to the politicians ahead of the local elections next year. We need you to help us make it, and to make sure our plan has local priorities. Register Here

Hydrogen Innovation Network Launch: January 12 2021 – As part of the flagship Innovation Network programme at KTN, the Hydrogen Economy Innovation Network will form a non-competitive advisory group to pool knowledge from existing hydrogen communities (from government and industry). The community will work together to validate views on the current challenges in enabling local clean hydrogen uptake at scale and cost, and to find innovative solutions to these challenges. Register Here

Innovation procurement to boost Regions in post COVID Recovery: January 12 2021 – Academic and Regional leaders discuss the role of innovation procurement in regional growth, their current initiatives, and the potential for these approaches to strengthen economic recovery in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Register Here

H100th TRB(Transportation Research Board) Annual Meeting: January 21, 2021 – The meeting program will cover all transportation modes, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2021 meeting: Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life. This year’s meeting also will feature dozens of sessions on how COVID-19 has impacted transportation and how transportation professionals and researchers are responding. Register Here

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ATF: moving the UK automotive sector to zero emissions: UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £7 million for economic or technical feasibility studies to support scale up of the UK’s high-value electrified automotive supply chain. Read More

Innovate UK Smart Grants: November 2020: Opportunity for UK registered organisations to apply for a share of up to £25 million from Innovate UK to deliver disruptive R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy. Read More

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

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: Marketing Team Lead – We are looking for a Marketing Team Lead will report to the Head of Marketing and will oversee all the activities of the content and creative department within the marketing directorate. It is a strategic role but will require a “hands-on” approach to detail and certain activities. Your role will be to showcase Connected Places Catapult as thought leaders and oversee all marketing content and creative initiatives to ensure customer engagement, brand message consistency and a positive customer experience. Apply

Coventry University: Professor in Enterprise and Innovation (Fatigue and Fracture) – We are delighted to invite applications for Professor in Enterprise and Innovation (Fatigue and Fracture), to fulfil the role of Director of the new Coventry University Innovation Centre in Fatigue and Fracture, located at TWI in Cambridge. The Centre is a progressive and exciting development, which represents a strategic investment by the University and TWI.    The centre will develop and deliver public funded research projects on fatigue management together with creating and delivering a portfolio of private research with industrial partners. Apply

Catapult: Economist – The Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow.  We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness.  We operate at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places. 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!