Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

Offer your expertise and knowledge to an SME to help them to develop products and services whilst opening up job opportunities for promising graduates.

How working with an innovative SME can help you.

Our collaboration opportunities offer a great way to gain real life insights into your area of expertise and advance your knowledge.

PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTISE

Apply academic research to real-life projects, furthering your knowledge and understanding whilst helping to develop innovative products and services.

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

Providing collaboration opportunities with SMEs looking to work with Universities and talented graduates.

RECOGNITION FOR UNIVERSITIES

Through contributing to the development of products and services with exciting implications for society.

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES

A great way of using existing skills and knowledge to support real innovation and develop new products.

Knowledge Exchange Collaborations

Available to Academics only

KEEPs/RICs

Addionics Ltd

Addionics is working on the development of smart 3D structures for battery applications. Current battery systems employ planar structures as current collectors, but this means a compromise between power and energy density. By changing the structure of the current collector from planar to 3D the surface contact with the active material is maximised and the battery performance improved.

Deadline: 10/11/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Consciously Digital

We are looking for help to create methodology for an assessment tool that will be used by CD coaches to capture the state of digital wellbeing of an organisation or an individual as they start working with them, and be able to track progress as they keep working with clients. This tool can also be later used as a standalone digital product available for anyone interested in a snapshot evaluation of the current state of their digital wellbeing. Basically, we need help developing some kind of a standardised test (MBTI equivalent) that looks at digital wellbeing holistically.

Deadline: 10/1/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Instant Pickup Ltd.

Instant Pickup exists to hasten accessibility to sustainable logistics for both corporations and individuals. Our objective is to develop an online platform that enables SMEs to find eco-friendly logistics solutions. This will be achieved through a website and our app. The new service will reduce labour and admin time for businesses and accelerate the availability of eco-friendly logistics solutions. We would like to carry out market research that would ensure that our platform delivers our value proposition, as well as establish our customer base and map our delivery routes.

Deadline: 10/14/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Learning JBE Ltd

We are looking for help to test the efficacy of a camera-based visual feedback training (CVFT) in restoring, or improving the sense of smell and/or taste in COVID-19 survivors. The intervention involves the use of a camera-based visual feedback apparatus. This CVFT has shown promise in facilitating recovery of smell and taste that was lost due to COVID-19, accompanied with corresponding positive changes in mood, in individual patients but it is yet to be validated quantitatively.

Deadline: 10/15/2021

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Tender Opportunities

Available to Everyone

Consultancy Grants

Consciously Digital Coach Training Ltd

Development of a digital tool that allows to holistically assess a person’s or organisation’s level of “digital balance”, taking into account their digital habits. Can come in a form of an app or software and be AI-driven or not.

Deadline: 10/8/2021

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Consultancy Grants

Happyr Ltd

The company are developing a mobile app to help teens with chronic pain diseases so that they can do exercises to help them cope and build up resilience and increase wellbeing. The content format of the Self-Management Exercises will consist of audios, videos & animations and the company are looking for technical support in the development of the content stream architecture.

Deadline: 10/4/2021

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Consultancy Grants

Techshift Limited t/a Safepoint

The overarching project is to develop a new-to-market range of wear-tech business-to-consumer safety devices, incorporating Bluetooth functionality into compact and discreet accessories. The wearable device will pair with our business-to-consumer mobile application. This then allows customers to easily press a button on the device when in distress to send an alarm notification to their friends and family. The objective of this project is to deliver a highly power efficient firmware application that can be loaded onto a Nordic Bluetooth controller.

Deadline: 10/8/2021

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Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

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Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

Offer your expertise and knowledge to an SME to help them to develop products and services whilst opening up job opportunities for promising graduates.

How working with an innovative SME can help you.

PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTISE

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

RECOGNITION FOR UNIVERSITIES

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES

Knowledge Exchange Collaborations

Addionics Ltd

Consciously Digital

Instant Pickup Ltd.

Learning JBE Ltd

Yellow Kiosk

Tender Opportunities

Consciously Digital Coach Training Ltd

Happyr Ltd

Techshift Limited t/a Safepoint

We provide businesses with flexible opportunities for innovation.

Linguisticator - Munx VR

Gosling PSL Holding Ltd

Texcel

Burden & Burden

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