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Biorenewables Development Centre

The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is a an open-access R&D centre, based at the University of York, working at the interface between academia and industry to convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable biorenewable products.

UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology

The CMSB is implementing engineering principles towards the application of synthetic biology of mammalian systems. While significant strides have been made in prokaryotes and yeast, applications in more complex mammalian systems are still in their gestation. The Centre builds on seven years’ productive multidisciplinary research across synthetic and systems biology, and will extend this to embrace Edinburgh’s world-leading expertise in cell biology, specifically epigenetics and stem cell biology...

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory with more than 100 telescopes located in the northern hemisphere (at the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory on the island of La Palma, Spain) and the southern hemisphere (near the existing European Southern Observatory site at Paranal, Chile). With its superior performance, the prospects for CTA combine the in-depth understanding of known...

Gravity Research Lab

The Gravity Research Lab as part of the TEC section of the European Space Agency supports research and technology for gravity and space-flight related activities as well as access to research tools for micro-gravity simulation (clinostats, Random Positioning Machines) and hyper-gravity facilities (LArge Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) and MidiCAR centrifuge). Besides the gravity related activities the TEC-MMG lab also houses a high class clean room, facilities related for Planetary Protection and LG...

Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is building a research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing. It is based on one of the two largest scientific projects ever funded by the European Union. The 10-year Project began in 2013 and directly employs some 800 scientists at more than 120 universities, teaching hospitals and research centres across Europe. to research/innovation goals and objectives Six ICT research Platforms form the heart of the HBP infrastructure...

National Innovation Centre for Data

The National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) is enabling organisations to gain insight from their data and improve their productivity, through efficiency gains or new products and services, therefore improving the overall economy of the UK. NICD transfers data skills into the UK workforce by engaging in collaborative projects focussed on a proprietary business problem and supporting progress with key data expertise, tools, methods and technologies. Goals and objectives: 1. To deliver insights...

Queen's University Belfast Polymer Processing Research Centre

PPRC infrastructure comprises some £2 million of industrial scale polymer processing and analytical equipment. The Centre provides a business friendly interface between companies and QUB Research aligned to industrial needs and takes a pragmatic approach to Intellectual Property and routes to exploitation using a range of funding mechanisms.