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Showcasing the Electric Revolution, Resilience (Medicines Manufacturing), AI, and Fusion skills and exploring how these hubs are building specialist talent for the UK’s innovation priorities

A new plan to strengthen business innovation in Northern Ireland has been unveiled. The Collaborative Innovation Plan, has been co-created by Innovate UK, the Department for the Economy (DfE) and Invest Northern Ireland.

Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa, through the UK-Kenya Health Global Innovation Network, is convening a high-level UK–Kenya roundtable on cancer innovation.

Grand Union Community Energy’s (GUCE) vision is for communities along the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire to enjoy a clean and resilient energy system that benefits everyone.

When Lisa Stafford first applied to the Innovate UK Young Innovators Award, her company had yet to finalise its USP. TAZAAR was originally a mobile application that could help retailers sell pre-owned electronics by performing hardware and software diagnostics.

Shannyce Adamson is reinventing the ubiquitous clothes hanger using innovative and sustainable design principles. Her unique product, Easy Hang, was in the later stages of development when Shannyce applied for the Innovate UK Young Innovators Award.

Nottingham-based Dalraj Nijjar started Concrete4Change to help concrete manufacturers, and the construction industry achieve Net Zero. The business is developing novel technology that can permanently lock CO2 into concrete, with no CO2 leakage even after demolition.

Learn more about this latest funding opportunity from Innovate UK, offering up to £25k per project for innovative feasibility studies in novel, sustainable, low carbon materials and manufacturing, including seaweed processing.

The John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (JWMDRC) are partners in the Horizon Europe-funded PaLADIn project, which looks to use patient data to better understand neuromuscular diseases. This research could lead to therapies that address what really matters to patients, potentially improving lives around the world.