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Innovate UK KTN, Innovate UK and BRE arranged an online workshop and networking event on 24th March 20222 which brought together the foundation industries and the construction industry to understand the drivers and future material requirements of the sector.

Ahead of the Global Research & Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) online conference, exhibition and showcase taking place on 15th – 17th March 2022, KTN’s Matt Chapman looks at some of the issues around the use of plastics in healthcare, what new approaches are already being put in place and how businesses can work towards more sustainable solutions.

Since securing the Young Innovators Award 2020/21 from Innovate UK and The Prince’s Trust, Scottish entrepreneur Elena Höge has taken her gaming company Yaldi Games from a mere vision to a budding business. 

This briefing event will give you the chance to find out more about this PEMD open competition with up to £50K available for funding projects.

Developing aquaculture in Africa could help feed growing populations with nutritious food and improve economic security, two priorities for the African continent. If planned with sustainability and net zero in mind, aquaculture projects can also help mitigate climate change.

Do you have the radical technology needed by global players in rapidly growing sectors? Find out about innovation challenges from major organisations, and put forward disruptive solutions that your new and cutting edge technologies could deliver.

Join us to discuss opportunities for collaboration between the UK and Africa to support developments in the growing aquaculture sector, and meet with others who could help you fast-track your innovation.

Before winning the Innovate UK and The Prince’s Trust Young Innovators Award, Scottish innovator Iona Mackenzie felt like she was hitting a brick wall in her ambition to develop a match-making platform between counsellors and those looking for support. 

For Lottie Hawkins, Founder of Earthly Biochar, taking a product from early-stage development to market has been a massive learning curve.

CyberASAP welcomes applications from projects in UKRI’s Security of Digital Technology at the Periphery.