· TeenTech is a national charity working with school children to help them consider a future in digital, science technology and engineering.

· Their TeenTech City of Tomorrow initiative is working with nine Coventry schools with the help of WMG, University of Warwick

· Experts from WMG will deliver advice to children on sustainable materials, and inspire them as they design and build their city of the future out of recyclable household items

· A few Cities will then be exhibited at The Coventry Transport Museum

As it’s ‘Cities, Regions and Built Environment’ day at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, researchers from WMG at the University of Warwick are helping children understand sustainability and its importance, by delivering an online session about sustainable materials and why it’s important we use them more for a greener future, thanks to funding from the University’s Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials GRP.

The University of Warwick has announced its delegation of 17 attending the global climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow in November. The university is one of a limited number of institutions to have been granted official observer status by the UN-led conference, which is being hosted by the UK.

To find out more about what the University of Warwick is doing around sustainability, please visit www.warwick.ac.uk/sustainability

TeenTech City of Tomorrow invites young people to design ideas for the safer, smarter, kinder City of Tomorrow, surfacing careers in the connected city, increasing awareness of global sustainability goals, citizenship.

Students consider how physical spaces (home, health, education sport, entertainment, commercial) can provide better experiences for everyone and how they might play a part in the inclusive, digitally connected, city of the future.

The emphasis is on bold creative thinking with live feedback from local and national employers.

Students get to DREAM BIG, creating buildings for their TeenTech City of Tomorrow and becoming designers, technologists and engineers.

TeenTech City of Tomorrow in Coventry will consist of a Live Build Session on Thursday 11th November, where pupils will be guided through the process, and a Live Feedback Session on Thursday 25th November where all buildings created will be showcased. All projects will receive feedback from industry experts from the world of design, technology and engineering.

TeenTech Live meets Gatsby benchmarks and has been highly praised by teachers, parents and students.

TeenTech Coventry is delivered in collaboration with the Innovative Manufacturing & Future Materials GRP at the University of Warwick and the Public Engagement and Outreach Team at WMG, University of Warwick. The Innovative Manufacturing & Future Materials GRP is one of ten Global Research Priorities that undertake Interdisciplinary Research that will help shape our future and respond to complex global challenges that can only be tackled through research excellence. They foster collaboration and innovation, and they are passionate about inspiring the next generation of curious thinkers and innovators through their outreach work and their partnerships in academia and industry.

Feasibility study funding call
The CENTS research network invites proposals for collaborations between academic and industry partners that will enable cross-disciplinary, foresightful and risky early stage research. Applications involving Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and proposing interdisciplinary and cross sector research are particularly encouraged. The expectation is to fund up to four projects of up to a maximum value of £50,000 at full Economic Cost (fEC), with funding to be awarded at 80% fEC. Projects are expected to be approximately 6 months in length, and must complete before the end of Jan 2022.
Note to Early Career Applicants: Leading a CENTS project will not affect eligibility to the New Investigator Award scheme.

Fit with the CENTS Network
In this second round, we again welcome applications from a wide range of disciplines addressing circular economy challenges in transport that fall within our 5 Research Strands. We would also be interested in proposals that tackle some of the key challenges identified in our material requirement roadmapping survey and workshops.

For any queries, please get in touch with the CENTS Network Manager (Dr Rika Nair) by email circulartransport@warwick.ac.uk

Every year, landfills around Europe receive around 50m tonnes of waste that is too large for facilities to recycle or process. More than half of all this waste is from plastic, textiles, wood and composites.

Learn about the research at Warwick and how we are reusing materials for future construction.

Join us also for a live lunch time session to learn more about this during City of Culture - Invention theme.
Week commencing 24th May 2021. More information to follow.

As ERA reaches the end of its £60 million capital build programme, which has focused on the development of 23 test and demonstration facilities, it has been through a process of examining how to apply its academic capability and facilities to a series of major research, development and demonstration challenges which face the UK as it accelerates the delivery of low-carbon solutions towards 2050. This has resulted in a series of ‘Big Ideas’ focussed on:

• Implementation and demonstration of next-generation fuels;
• Medium-term, large-scale, energy storage;
• Integrating the circular economy with zero carbon and CCUS acceleration;
• Grid-scale electricity system modelling for future-proofing infrastructure;
• A National Centre for Decarbonisation of Heat, NCDH, and
• Behavioural transition for a low-carbon future.

The full document of the Big Ideas can be viewed along with the ERA Into the next ERA document.

If you would like to get involved with any of the Big Ideas or have any feedback please contact the Energy GRP: EnergyGRP@warwick.ac.uk