Welcome to the June issue of the N8 Research Partnership ebulletin.
Over the last 6 months we have been looking at new and different ways to share investments in unique research equipment across the universities. Our report ‘Sharing for Excellence and Growth’, funded by the EPSRC, highlights the costs and challenges for sharing equipment, but also the wider benefits that can be realised, including recruiting and training talent, and enabling more ambitious and novel research strategies.
We are implementing these new approaches, through an EPSRC award for a £3.25m Centre of Excellence for High Performance Computing, announced this month. The new N8 Centre, based at Leeds and run jointly with Manchester, provides a facility that is not currently available to the 8 partners. The Centre will enable more advanced modelling and analyses, allowing researchers to address a range of critical challenges in healthcare, energy and transport.
We were delighted to welcome Iain Gray to the University of York to launch the Regener8 Proof of Concept funding call for regenerative medicine projects that demonstrate significant commercial potential.
Finally METRC have announced the first winners of their Innovation Vouchers, supporting some exciting and novel business-led projects in Nanotechnology and Micro Engineering.
I hope you enjoy reading this e-bulletin and please get in touch with your comments and ideas.
Best regards,
Sarah Jackson
Director, N8
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