The Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE) is a multi-million-pound collaboration between ORE Catapult and Welsh universities, funded by the Welsh European Funding Office. Based at Pembroke Dock, the Centre will deliver research, development and demonstration activities to support innovation in the Welsh supply chain, accelerating the commercialisation of the wave, tidal and offshore wind sectors by reducing cost of energy.

The purpose of the MEECE collaboration is to...

The Aberystwyth Genetic Resources Unit comprises a collection of approximately 33,000 accessions of forage grasses, forage legumes, oats, grain legumes, energy grasses and amienity grasses. In addition it comprises a physical building (a new building is to be completed in June 2019 on the Aberystwyth Innovation & Enterprise Campus) for seed storage and seed processing; and a quarentine facility of glasshouses for containing recently collected accessions brought into the UK. The infrastructure...

ADR Wales brings together world-renowned data science experts, leading academics and specialist teams within Welsh Government to produce evidence that shapes future policy decisions in Wales. ADR Wales is the focal point for data-related research in Wales and a major player in UK-wide efforts to transform research and policy environments. ADR Wales is a core element of the ESRC’s, via UKRI, ADR UK investment.

 ADR Wales unites specialists in their field from Swansea University Medical School...

The MQADP is a research platform and infrastructure to enable research to improve children and young peoples’ mental health, by pooling data from multiple sources: linking routinely collected data (health, deprivation, social care) with clinical interviews, psychological, biological and genetic data. This resource will continue to expand in terms of size, nations covered, and breadth and depth of data, with continued linkage, recruitment and additional measures planned and be available for...

What it does: BioPilotsUK is a distributed infrastructure providing access to key hardware, skills and knowhow, for both industrial and academic R&D to aid innovation and de-risk the development of bio-based products and processes. Research Goals etc: • Provide simple-to-access responsive support to academia and businesses to accelerate innovative growth in the UK bioeconomy. • To assist UK industry realise potential investments in biobased research and innovation and bring new products to...

The Cardiff University Biobank facility houses a large storage space for up to 900,000 biological samples including blood, urine, tissue and saliva. The facility can provide fresh, frozen and processed (serum, plasma, slides) samples which are collected and stored to the highest standards. Patients and healthy volunteers kindly donate these biological samples to enable researchers to gain a deeper understanding of diseases. The samples are crucial in allowing researchers to find better ways to...

Founded in 1883, Cardiff University is ranked among the top five universities in the UK for research excellence, and is the only Russell Group university in Wales. Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives was established in 2005 to improve the discovery, visibility, access to, and use of the University Library Service's unique and distinctive collections. We are home to c. 100,000 print volumes dating from the 15th century to the modern day, 700 metres of historical and modern...

The Centre for Automotive & Power System Engineering (CAPSE) based within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Science is a nationally recognised independent research, development, test and certification house with a reputation for cutting edge research and knowledge transfer activities within the advanced automotive and power systems engineering sectors. CAPSE (proudly part sponsored by Welsh Governments flagship A4B (Academia for business) programme under the European Regional...

The CS Hub, based at Cardiff University, is one of 8 UK-wide EPSRC funded future manufacturing hubs. The CS Hub will act as the focal point for the creation of Europe’s 5th semiconductor cluster and the first dedicated to compound semiconductors. Our vision is to establish the UK as the primary global research and manufacturing hub for Compound Semiconductor (CS) Technologies. We are combining and connecting UK CS research excellence with the very best translational facilities to support the UK...

Mass Spectrometry is an essential, fundamental, analytical tool for the characterisation of molecules, applicable in most areas of chemical synthesis, isolation and application. National Mass Spectrometry Facility (NMSF) at Swansea University, as the former EPSRC UK National Research Facility (NRF) for Mass Spectrometry, provides access to mass spectrometry and related hyphenated techniques and expertise for the UK scientific community; these are especially important when local facilities do not...