Tired of Writing? Make a Map!
This spring semester, thanks to a Fusion CCCP grant, we’ll be turning our BU research into interactive media, designed for making an impact. If you are like me, dishwashing, hanging laundry, answering...
View ArticleDesign Council Spark: a new kind of product innovation fund – up to £65K...
Have a great product prototype but not sure what to do next? Design Council Spark is a new kind of product innovation fund to uncover the UK’s next great inventions. Apply now for a chance to...
View Article£5,000 of business funding available – Innovation Vouchers
Are you working with business? Innovation Vouchers are open to all kinds of small businesses. Businesses can claim up to £5,000 towards the cost of expert advice if they classify as a start-up,...
View Article£1 million available to help UK manufacturing firms develop skills to...
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) has launched a new competition challenging manufacturing firms to maximise the value of innovation. Manufacturing firms have been invited to bid...
View ArticleUp to £10M Worth of Funding Available for Digital Innovators
Register now for the upcoming events below which will highlight and provide information about Innovate UK funding competitions opening in March 2015. Digital Business Drop-in – 19 February 2015 Come...
View ArticleDigital Economy Strategy 2015 to 2018
Lighting a fire in digital innovation – Caveman Dave had a great tool at his disposal – fire. So he understands how things can change the world. What have we got? We’ve got the digital age, which is...
View ArticleSBRI competition open for registration – Long term care revolution
The long-term care revolution national challenge, an SBRI competition run by Innovate UK, is now open for registration. The aim of this competition to stimulate the development of innovative new...
View ArticleWhat do Fishbone, Amusement Park and Apigee have in common?
They are all tools for digital storytelling. On Thursday May 14th, the Fusion-funded, inter-faculty BU Datalabs team presented at Interdisciplinary Research Week. Guests from across the University and...
View ArticleMaking an impact – Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF): money available...
HEFCE provide funding for knowledge exchange (Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)) to support and develop a broad range of knowledge-based interactions between universities and colleges and the...
View ArticleThe Innovation Projects Open Call
Announcement of Opportunity The Innovation Projects Open Call will fund projects that increase and accelerate the uptake and impact of NERC funded research outputs by supporting translational and...
View ArticleThe Midwifery quilt online- URA scheme funded project
As part of my EdD thesis on ‘The essence of the art of a midwife..’ http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/16560/ I created a reflexive textile quilt, with each of the squares representing an entry in my research...
View ArticleWomen Innovators – EU Prize
Are you or do you know a Woman Innovator? With the EU Prize for Women Innovators, the European Commission wants to give public recognition to outstanding women entrepreneurs who brought their...
View ArticleInstitute for Small Business and Entrpreneurship Research and Knowledge...
ISBE Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) Fund – Anchor Institutions The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) fund is an initiative kindly...
View ArticleInnovate 2015 – 9-10 November London
The countdown has begun for Innovate 2015. From international investors, entrepreneurs, to government and academia, everyone who is anyone in innovation will be attending. Discover the full range of...
View ArticleRoyal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Fellowship Scheme – Funding...
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Fellowship scheme supports outstanding entrepreneurial engineers, working at a UK university, to spin out a business by providing funding and an...
View ArticleFunding available to support R&D – science, engineering and technology
SMART is a grant scheme which offers funding to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in R&D projects in the strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology,...
View ArticleFrom research proposals to job applications: Writing tips from the European...
Yesterday I attended an ERC Starting Grants session at the London School of Economics. Although I may never reach the heady, research heights of submitting a proposal to the prestigious, ERC Starting...
View ArticleFOOD HARVESTING FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Fotini Tsofliou, Angela Turner-Wilson, Anne Mills and Juliet Wiseman, working in collaboration with Sarah Watson (Sustainable Food City...
View ArticleSmall Business Research Initiative (SBRI) – latest calls
The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) is a well established process to connect public sector challenges with innovative ideas from industry, supporting companies to generate economic growth...
View ArticleNERC Green Infrastructure Innovation Projects Call
The Environment Agency has indicated that they would welcome academic partners to work with them on the priorities in their Working with Natural Processes Research Framework. Details are at the foot...
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