ACTION 2011: Sustainability

ACTION 2011: Sustainability

An opportunity for postgraduate researchers and research staff at Newcastle University to explore a sustainability challenge, show how your research can make a difference and compete for a prize of £10,000

ACTION 2011: Sustainability enables you to get away from your desk, collaborate and think like an entrepreneur in order to develop a commercial approach to your research.

 What can participants expect?

ACTION 2011 is a 10 month programme in which participants work in teams, within a framework of support made up of existing and new enterprise training opportunities, to identify a sustainability challenge and develop an interdisciplinary, commercial solution to the challenge by integrating their research and initiating internal and external collaborations. Teams will work to develop a visual prototype, video, model or other form for their solution and will present this to compete with each other to win a cash prize. This prize will be used to further develop their ideas and to aid their development as entrepreneurial researchers so increasing the impact of their research.

 Launch event: Thursday 17^th February 2011, 12-2pm

Lindisfarne Room, King’s Road Centre, Newcastle University

 To register please complete the booking form by Thursday 10^th February 2011

Lunch will be provided at the launch

All interested parties are welcome to attend the launch; however you must meet the entry requirements to participate in the programme, these will be explained at the launch

 This project supports Newcastle University’s 2011 societal challenge theme of Sustainability

This project benefits from EPSRC funding for training in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

 

ACTION 2011 Team

 Dr Gail de Blaquiere – Postgraduate Skills Development

Dr Elizabeth Scanlon – Research Staff Training and Development

Miss Katie Wray – Lecturer in Enterprise

Telephone: 0191 222 5901.

Fax: 0191  222 8533

Email: ACTION2011@ncl.ac.uk