Our association has joined forces with 24 European research and innovation stakeholders to sign an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission) urging the speedy association of the UK to Horizon Europe.
On 14 October, the conference hosted a broad range of speakers representing academia, public policy, industry, and student bodies who gave an engaging series of talks that truly put universities’ mission to meet critical challenges into perspective and provided vital insights for the future. The video of the full conference is now available to watch online.
The project aims to foster a process of cultural change towards more gender equity, trigger an intensive university-wide examination of and reflection about the topic of equal opportunities and, in the long run, raise the fraction of women at all career levels.
1.2 billion people have no access to electricity, yet, in emergent nations renewable energy projects are rare, partly because the funding requirements of the electricity sector in these regions exceeds their already constrained public budgets. The Blockchain SPV team aims to mobilise finance for renewable power projects, such as solar or wind farms, from anyone globally.
Atmospheric density is difficult to forecast, which makes the movement of space debris difficult to predict and endangers operational satellites and atmospheric re-entry of spacecraft. The Space Sustainability team, a finalist of our Competition Best Idea 2021, is using AI to better model the dynamics of the thermospheric density field and help tackle congestion in space.