The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is a group of industry-led manufacturing research and development facilities transforming skills, productivity and innovation in Scotland helping to make the country a global leader in advanced manufacturing.  

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire. It is operated by the University of Strathclyde and supported by Scottish Government, Scottish...

The Integrated Energy Storage, Testing and Verification (IESTV) facility at Leicester University enables the integrated testing of supercapacitors, battery storage and compressed air systems. This facility, with its associated control system, allows different energy vectors to be integrated together into an ‘energy store’. The aim of the facility is to investigate the operation and interaction between various energy storage systems integrated with energy networks through computer simulation and...

BREATHE – The Health Research Hub for Respiratory Health will enable high quality research and cutting-edge innovation to improve the lives of people living with respiratory conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Everyone in the UK will have a respiratory illness at some point in their life. We have the best datasets in the world – which should be used to improve respiratory health – but these are currently very difficult to find, access and use.

Peopl...

The Quantum Technology Centre, based in Lancaster University’s Physics Department, establish a significant technology presence in the Northwest. Our world class facilities include a class 100 and two class 1000 clean rooms housing state-of-the-art nanofabrication equipment. The facilities provide the possibility to run multi-step nanofabrication processes to build electronic, photonic and nanomechanical devices and structures with a feature size as small as 10 nm. It allows processing of metals...

Research Data Scotland will provide a service for accessing public sector datasets that have the potential to save money time and lives.

It will offer safe, secure and cost effective access to data for research, innovation and investment by enabling its users to deliver insight and understanding that will help create a more successful country through increased wellbeing, sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and improving the health of the nation.

We will work collaboratively with...

We provide large-scale computing resources to help University of Bradford scientists and collaborators carry out computational and data intensive research across all fields.  

As cutting-edge research becomes increasingly computational, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Service supports University of Bradford researchers to take research to the next level. Whether with academic collaborators or industry partners, through consultancy or contract research, we accelerate computationally...

The Powertrain Research Hub focuses on the development of next-generation offshore wind powertrains, optimising their operation, reliability and performance. ORE Catapult has partnered with the University of Sheffield to support the development of future technologies for larger turbines. 

The Hub’s key objectives are:

• Reliability improvement and advanced test methodologies
• Advanced health condition monitoring and prognostic technologies
• Development of next-generation powertrain...

The Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) has eight state-of-the-art analytical and processing laboratories, allowing research on a full cycle from fundamental analytical scale through to semi-industrial demonstrator research. Each laboratory is dedicated to a different area of research and includes: characterisation of feedstock and fuels, thermal and high-pressure processing and upgrading of fuels, thermal processing of biomass and waste materials, bioprocessing, synthesis and testing...

UH HPC provides high-performance computing facilities to research staff and students at UH and to a community of collaborators nationally and internationally, including externally funded consortia such as LOFAR-UK and WEAVE. It aims to facilitate both medium-scale HPC requirements (with around 5,000 compute cores) and high-throughput data processing (with around 2 PB of attached fast storage). Applications include computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, 'big...

The International Centre for Advanced Materials was set up by bp with a $100m investment in autumn 2012. Built upon a hub and spoke model this project brings together the strengths of bp, The University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to enable the effective application of advanced materials to energy challenges. The three research themes are: Low Carbon Energy, which encompasses Hydrogen, Electrification...