Tag: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race

Stuart Mitchell

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader. Backed by a £60 million investment, one lab will focus on creating open-source AI that can run on widely available hardware. The other will pioneer new approaches enabling AI to learn without vast centralised computing power. The two UK AI research labs will be led by University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford. The labs will work in collaboration with partners including the universities…

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First projects funded by Local Innovation Partnership Fund

Stuart Mitchell

£30 million has been earmarked for Liverpool City Region (LCR) to boost high-potential innovation clusters. The first two projects to be funded in the LCR through UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Local Innovation Partnership Fund (LIPF) have been announced. Led by the University of Liverpool, they are set to receive £23.7 million. The funding has been agreed locally by the LCR Local Innovation Partnership Group, and is the first allocation from £30 million earmarked for the City Region in July 2025. Led by UKRI, the national £500 million LIPF is…

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New Research and Innovation Challenge to improve home learning environment

Stuart Mitchell

Part of the government’s Opportunity Mission to remove barriers to opportunity, the challenge supports the target for 75% of children to be school ready by 2028. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) today announced a new research and innovation (R&I) challenge: The Home Learning Environment R&I Challenge. UKRI has committed £31.9 million through the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme. Delivered in partnership with the Department for Education, and forming part of the government’s mission to Break Down Barriers to Opportunity. Power of research and innovation The Home Learning Environment Challenge will harness the power…

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£50m research and innovation programme launched to make Britain’s streets safer for everyone

Stuart Mitchell

New research and innovation programme set as part of the Safer Streets Mission. Funding to go to projects to help reduce violence against women and girls, and knife crime. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched five Safer Streets Challenges backed by £50 million of funding, as part of the government’s £500 million Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP). This will bring together researchers, innovators, communities, policing and frontline practitioners to tackle the crimes that affect people’s daily lives, using research and innovation to create solutions. The R&D…

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Tiny robots to treat cancer among innovative research projects

Stuart Mitchell

New cancer treatments and better ways to manage arthritis are new research projects in health and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Tiny robots, inspired by the movement of snails, could help deliver drugs more precisely to bowel cancer tumours. This could both treat the tumour more effectively and reduce the amount of chemotherapy drugs affecting otherwise healthy tissues. The research project, led by scientists in Manchester, is developing the ‘snailbots’ with help from an investment by UKRI. And it’s just one of around thirty projects, many of them…

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