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Innovate UK KTN Global Alliance in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) / UK Science & Innovation Network (SIN), DLR Projektträger in Germany, FFG – Austrian Research and Promotion Agency and the AI, Data and Robotics Association are delighted to invite potential Horizon Europe applicants to our AI & Robotics Consortia Building event.

Innovate UK and the Global Alliance Africa Project delivered by Innovate UK KTN are hosting an Energy Catalyst Briefing: Launch and Brokerage Event in South Africa on 27 June 2022. With key industry leaders in attendance, this event will provide ambitious organisations a chance to learn more about the Energy Catalyst and identify/match with potential partners from bioenergy, storage, solar PV, wind, heating and cooling, clean cooking, smart grids, and novel payment systems.

Innovate UK and the Global Alliance Africa Project delivered by Innovate UK KTN are hosting an Energy Catalyst Briefing: Launch and Brokerage Event in Nigeria on 23 June 2022. With key industry leaders in attendance, this event will provide ambitious organisations a chance to learn more about the Energy Catalyst and identify/match with potential partners from bioenergy, storage, solar PV, wind, heating and cooling, clean cooking, smart grids, and novel payment systems.

Innovate UK and the Global Alliance Africa Project delivered by Innovate UK KTN are hosting an Energy Catalyst Briefing: Launch and Brokerage Event in Kenya on 28 June 2022. With key industry leaders in attendance, this event will provide ambitious organisations a chance to learn more about the Energy Catalyst and identify/match with potential partners from bioenergy, storage, solar PV, wind, heating and cooling, clean cooking, smart grids, and novel payment systems.

The Global Alliance Africa team co-hosted a co-creation meeting as well as targeted dialogues with members of the Eldoret Innovation Network Advisory Board (EINAB) in May 2022.

Learn more about our African challenges to find innovative solutions to prevent crop damage by birds and to find affordable solutions for threshing grain.

Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Awards 2022/23 will award up to 100 young people from diverse backgrounds with a £5,000 grant, a living allowance, and tailored business support.

Read the success stories of 19 of our 2020/21 Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation awardees to learn about how their ground-breaking ideas are helping manage the world’s greatest challenges. Find out how the Women in Innovation programme helped these pioneering women take their businesses to the next level and inspire the next generation.

Christina King’s innovation aims to drive emission reductions and energy savings through a unique sensing technology developed at Tribosonics. 23% of the world‘s energy is lost through tribological contact (the science of wear, friction, and lubrication). By addressing this, there is the potential to save 1.4% of GDP and 8.7% of total energy consumption, and reduce CO2 emissions.

Emma Shaw’s ‘Library of Things’ (LoT) is a female-led social enterprise on a mission to make borrowing better than buying.