Dr Ailsa Harpur Research and Business Services University of East Anglia

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Dr Ailsa HarpurResearch and Business
ServicesUniversity of East Anglia

• An opportunity for the Nitrous Oxide Focus
  GroupNERC Knowledge Transfer

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Routes to Engagement

• Students and Graduates
• Employing students - EmployAbility
• Graduate and Post Graduate Recruitment
• Undergraduate Work experience (Intern projects)
• Undergraduate Year in Industry placements
• Post Graduate Projects (Intern projects)
• CASE (Co operative Awards in Science and
  Engineering)
• Industry Funded Fellowships
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• Knowledge Catalyst
• STEP (Shell Technology Enterprise Programme)
• Industry Interchange Programme
• LINK
• Ideas, inventions and experts
• Collaborative or Contracted Research
• Licensing
• Consultancy
• Spinouts

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Aims of the scheme

• The NERC KT Call is designed to be a flexible
  scheme to enable the transfer of knowledge,
  people, skills and expertise between the NERC
  research base and its user communities, in
  particular
• To assist the transfer of knowledge between the
  research base and the user community
• To enable the formation of communities made up of
  the research base and users of research outcomes.
  This allows the exchange of ideas, knowledge,
  needs and requirements, and may generate new
  research directions where appropriate
• To facilitate the training of people in the user
  community in techniques that have previously been
  retained within the research base
• To allow the transfer of people between the
  research base and user organisations.

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Funding for the Focus Group

• 3 years of funding for
• Dedicated Facilitator/Translator
• Knowledge Exchange Workshops
• Regular network meetings
• Training programmes
• Secondments/exchanges/placements
• An advisory/consultancy service to support the
  user community
• A service providing reports, horizon scanning and
  policy reviews
• Publications for industries, the content and
  format defined by industry
• Cross-industry nitrous oxide training, including
  secondments/exchanges between the university and
  industry.
• Sustainability will be considered for Years 4
  onwards

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Benefits for Business

• access to cutting edge strategies, technology or
  innovation at the development stage
• an opportunity to view and steer development of
  project outcomes
• first hand experience of the potential
  availability to your corporate community of the
  nitrous oxide expertise, and technical
  developments, within UEA
• an opportunity to champion adoption of
  strategies, technology or innovation in the wider
  community (beyond your corporate community),
  including your customer base

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How to get involved

• Letter of support
• No financial commitment
• Participation in activities
• Advisory Board position

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What next?

• Bid submission with letters of support
• Formation of Advisory Board
• If funded, development of 3 year programme
• Implementation of programme

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Contacts

• UEA staff present today
• Mrs Liz Magem, Business Development Manager,
  e.magem_at_uea.ac.uk
• Dr Ailsa Harpur, Strategic Programmes Manager,
  a.harpur_at_uea.ac.uk
• Professor David Richardson, Focus Group
  Co-ordinator, Dean of Faculty of Science