Month: June 2017

Events – Supporting innovation in UK industry – priorities for investment, the commercialisation of research – 7 September 2017, Central London, United Kingdom

It is timed to follow the Building our Industrial Strategy Green Paper, which highlighted investment in science, research and innovation as one of ten pillars for driving growth and productivity across the UK economy, and following the announcement of an Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund – seeking to drive progress in

Events – Smarter is cleaner – EUSEW policy session – 22 June 2017, Brussels, Belgium

Nine smart city projects funded under the Smart Cities and Communities (SCC1) Horizon 2020 funding programme will contribute to the ICLEI coordinated “Smarter is cleaner” policy session on 22 June from 16.00 – 17.30. The session will focus on the replication potential of the energy-related smart solutions implemented in leading

Events – Solutions for Wood Mobilisation in Europe (SIMWOOD project final conference) – 12-13 October 2017, Paris, France

Regional, national and European stakeholders interested in wood mobilisation are invited to the conference ‘Solutions for Wood Mobilisation in Europe’ (SIMWOOD project final conference). The programme is designed to address both forest practitioners (forest managers, entrepreneurs, wood suppliers etc.) and policy-makers. From October 12 to 13, 2017, the members of

Research Headlines – Homegrown food for the metropolis

Where there’s a city, there’s a wider region that could provide a lot of its food. And yet, the produce on the average urbanite’s plate is often imported from further afield, while farms located just a spud’s throw away export most of what they grow. There’s much to be gained