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Lecture - Our Future Innovators

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:24:00 GMT

Listen to Maggie Philbin, Co Founder of charity TeenTech, hosting an insightful and innovative Christmas Lecture that took place on 9th December 2021.
Opening and welcome note from Margot James, CEO, WMG.

Visit the Transport Museum from 17th December 2021 to see the creations from the preceding project with Teen Tech City of Tomorrow, a collaboration between WMG Outreach, Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials Global Research Priorities and local primary schools in Coventry.
You will find the exhibition in the Community space, Transport Museum. Don't forget if you live in Coventry you can apply for a Go-CV card!

TeenTech City of Tomorrow

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:28:30 GMT

· 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.

University of Warwick announces expert delegation to attend COP26

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:00:32 GMT

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

Sustainable Coventry and Warwickshire

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:51:00 GMT

As part of our wider programme for sustainable and transformative change in Coventry and Warwickshire, we held a Symposium on October 11 to explore sustainability across a spectrum of areas. The event was spearheaded by our Global Research Priorities (GRPs) and addressed urgent sustainability challenges. The event formed part of a wider programme around sustainability to help achieve transformative change in our region through fresh innovation. We have collated photographs, presentations and videos from the day, which you can access here.

Sustainable Coventry and Warwickshire Symposium

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:48:00 GMT

The vital challenge of sustainability, and how to address the questions it raises, are set to be examined through a collaboration of researchers and leading figures from across our region and beyond, thanks to the University of Warwick.

The Sustainable Coventry and Warwickshire Symposium (11 October) forms part of a wider programme around sustainability to help achieve transformative change in our region through fresh innovation.

Delegates will engage directly with Warwick researchers working at the forefront of developing interdisciplinary ways to help address the challenges of sustainability across our region.

For the full press release please click here and more information about related research and events taking place please click here

Professor Kerry Kirwan joins Clean Growth Leadership Network

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:58:00 GMT

Head of WMG’s Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Group, and Academic Lead of the Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials Global Research Priority, Professor Kerry Kirwan, has been appointed as a Fellow to the Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN).

The CGLN is committed to economic growth for all whilst substantially reducing carbon emissions. The world-class network is made up of Founders, Fellows, Partners and Members united in their commitment to transform to a global clean economy.

Professor Kirwan explains: “I am delighted to have been appointed as a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network – the opportunity to work with some of the UK’s leading thinkers and practitioners tackling critical issues on the climate change agenda is hugely exciting. I’m really looking forward to introducing them to our research here at WMG and the wider University.”

Professor Kirwan is a specialist in circular economy, sustainable materials, polymer processing and industrial applications. He has extensive experience of developing environmentally friendly materials for application within numerous industries.

Read more about WMG’s Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing research here: Sustainable materials and manufacturing (warwick.ac.uk)

WIE Collaboration and Co-Production Fund

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:38:36 GMT

The Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE) is seeking to support current staff and students to develop ongoing strategic relationships with local, regional, and national public partners. In time, these relationships will lead to co-production of, and collaboration in, research projects, innovation programmes and strategy, as well as collaboration on the discussion of research outcomes and the co-organisation of public engagement events.

Awards of up to £3,000 will be available, to support activities that focus on building new, or strengthening existing, relationships, with local, regional, and national community partners, groups or organisations.

For more information please click here

Submit your application

Visit this page to view and submit the application form. You can save your progress in the form.

The first call deadline is 5pm on Monday 15 November 2021
The second call deadline 5pm on Tuesday 15 February 2022

All monies awarded to be spent by 31 July 2022 regardless of which call you take part in.

TeenTech Live: Coventry | TeenTech

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:02:05 GMT

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.

Funding opportunities to support collaborations with the US and Canada

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:13:41 GMT

British Academy - Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022 (closes 29 September)

The British Academy is inviting proposals from UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to develop international interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with colleagues from the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences, on the question of ‘What is a good city?’.

Full details here.

Work with US researchers: BBSRC-NSF/BIO lead agency 2021 (closes 30 September 2021)

This call will support activities in the following thematic areas:

biological informatics
microbes and the host immune system
quantum biology
synthetic cell

Full details here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/work-with-us-researchers-bbsrc-nsf-bio-lead-agency-2021/ . A reminder that under the lead agency scheme, US and UK researchers to submit a single collaborative proposal that will undergo a single review process by the lead agency, on behalf of both NSF/BIO and BBSRC.

EPSRC working with overseas scientists (open call)

This call will support activities in the following thematic areas:

digital economy
energy
engineering
global uncertainties
healthcare technologies (see our dedicated healthcare technologies investigator-led grant)
information and communication technologies
living with environmental change
manufacturing the future
mathematical sciences
physical sciences
quantum technologies
research infrastructure.

Full details here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-working-with-overseas-scientists/

EPSRC Overseas travel grant (open call)

Full details here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-overseas-travel-grant/

Thematic priority areas (see previous EPSRC call- above).

UKRI-SBE (Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate) lead agency opportunity (open call)

Proposals will be accepted for collaborative research in areas where NSF/SBE and UKRI’s research remits overlap (via AHRC/ BBSRC/ESRC).

Full details here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-sbe-lead-agency-opportunity/

Royal Society of Engineering Research Fellowships (closes 21 September)

An opportunity to share with your networks (worldwide), specifically early career researchers seeking to establish themselves in the UK

Full details here: https://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-prizes/grants/support-for-research/raeng-research-fellowship

Resonate Festival - Invention Stitch in Time

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:35:51 GMT

Stitch In Time is a collaborative project between Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick and local primary schools for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021.

On Tuesday 1 June 2021 we hosted one of the very first events for Resonate Festival, 'Stitch in Time' at Herbert Art Gallery museum for the Month of Invention, coordinated by the Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials GRP. The aim of this event was to inspire primary school children and their families from the local community about the history of Coventry's textiles, linking this to modern day technology and programming skills that are really important for children to learn.