Three KTN Webinars on the Foundation Industries in June and July
KTN has hosted 3 webinars in June and July on the Foundation Industries, for which recordings are now available.
Scoping Transforming Foundation Industries Competitions in Response to Covid-19
Thursday, 4th June 2020
KTN and Innovate UK held this virtual workshop on 4th June to help shape the future R&D programme for the Transforming Foundation Industries challenge.
The UK foundation industries (covering metals, ceramics, paper, glass, chemicals and cement), with a combined turnover estimated at £69bn and representing around 3% of the UK economy (2014), face many common challenges and the opportunity to address these challenges through cross-sector collaboration is compelling, allowing for a convincing case to be made together for government support. Funding and strategic support are necessary to address industry productivity, global competitiveness and to meet sustainability goals.
This workshop explored if and how a new collaborative research and development competition can help the sector respond to the economic climate brought on by Covid-19 and, in particular, help industry maintain its critical research functions during this time of unprecedented disruption.
This workshop provided an opportunity for the sector to feed into competition scope development, providing additional insights into how a possible new competition should be designed to best support the sector.
If you have any questions, please contact Robert Quarshie or Ajay Kapadia.
The recording from the session is available here.
Innovation Funding Masterclass – ISCF Wave 3 Transforming Foundation Industries
Friday 5th June 2020
This Masterclass covered Innovate UK Grants, Loans and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
This masterclass WAS primarily aimed at those who are unfamiliar or would like to improve their success rate with the Innovate UK Innovation grant and loan applications as well as those who may be interested in KTPs.
The event recording is available here.
Transforming Foundation Industries Hub Briefing Event Webinar
Thursday 9th July 2020
This webinar outlined the £4.75m investment in a Research and Innovation Hub from the Transforming Foundation Industries ISCF Challenge. EPSRC has issued a pre-announcement for this Hub competition. Further details are available here.
The Transforming Foundation Industries ISCF challenge will be investing up to £4.75m in a Research and Innovation Hub which will be delivered by EPSRC on behalf of UKRI. The aim of this challenge is to enable the foundation industries (made of six separate sectors: metal, glass, ceramics, paper, cement and bulk chemicals) to work together to address their common challenges of competitiveness and sustainability. The Research and Innovation Hub will provide a new cross-sector and multi-disciplinary research focus for the ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries programme.
The recording of this webinar is available here.