NERC academic industry brokerage event
This event will provide an opportunity to find out more about the NERC five-year, £5m initiative ‘Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme’ and will facilitate networking and joint proposal development between academic and industry partners.
Open Applications for this event are now closed, although there are still a very limited number of places remaining.
If you miss the application deadline but would still like to attend please contact Samantha Mitchell at [email protected] to discuss.
When
8 March 2016
9.30 - 16.30 (Registration from 9.00am)
Background
The Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme (ERIIP) is a collaboration between academia and infrastructure owners, operators, policy-makers and regulators to enable the UK infrastructure sector to use environmental science to identify, quantify and manage environmental risks to UK infrastructure.
NERC are now inviting proposals for innovation projects under the second round of the Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Innovation Programme (ERIIP). Under this programme, all projects must have project partners related to UK infrastructure, e.g. infrastructure owners, operators, regulators or policy-makers. This brokerage event will run to support this requirement, and to support the development of effective partnerships between academia and the infrastructure sector.
During this event, Innovation Programme industry partners will provide a 5-minute presentation, based on the submitted research priorities, which will outline current priorities and areas of interest.
Presentations from industry partners at this event will outline:
• An overview of industry organisations
• the major challenges for organisations in relation to natural hazards
• research priorities and opportunities for collaboration
Please note, due to high levels of interest attendance at this event must be applied for.
Open Applications for this event are now closed, although there are still a very limited number of places remaining.
If you miss the application deadline but would still like to attend please contact Samantha Mitchell at [email protected] to discuss.
Programme
9.30 Introduction & welcome
Robyn Thomas, Head of Innovation Programmes and Partnerships, NERC
9.35 Introduction to ERIIP
Ruth Hughes, NERC
9.50 Increasing impact of environmental hazards for infrastructure sector
Speaker TBC
10.05 CCRA overview & key knowledge gaps
David Thompson, Committee on Climate Change
10.20 Innovation success
Jonathan Chambers, British Geological Survey
10.40 ERIIP Industry partners ‘Grand Challenges’ – Session 1
10 minute presentations from :
- Atkins
- National Grid
- Transport Scotland
- HS2
11.30 Networking Coffee Break
12.00 ERIIP Industry partners ‘Grand Challenges’ – Session 2
10 minute presentations from:
- Network Rail
- Temple Group
- Scottish water
- HR Wallingford
- Arup
- Environment Agency
- EDF Energy
13.20 Next steps & recap of the day
Ruth Hughes, NERC
13.30 Networking Lunch
14.30 Interviews (timetable tbc)
When
8 March 2016
9.30 - 16.30 (Registration from 9.00am)
Where
The Wesley, 81-103 Euston Street
London
NW1 2EZ
Fees
FREE to attend
Booking
To find out how to book a place please contact [email protected]
If you have any questions regarding the event programme please contact [email protected] or [email protected]