How can we make a West Cambridge Living Lab a reality?

Collaboration event between Cambridge Zero and the Decarbonisation Network

There is ample interest from researchers, supporting staff and industry representatives to make a Living Lab on the West-Cambridge site feasible. This workshop aims to identify what is needed to make this a reality. Through breakout group discussions, input from various stakeholders will be welcomed on how to take this forwards and overcome barriers to implementation.

The event builds upon a report produced by Dr Bart Roose for Cambridge Zero: ‘West-Cambridge Living Lab Feasibility Study’ (December, 2022). Several people he spoke to suggested to organise a meeting where all stakeholders can come together and learn from each other about what is on offer. This workshop is that next step.

Agenda TBC

Arrival from 9.30 for 10am start. Networking lunch from 12.30pm

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-make-a-west-cambridge-living-lab-a-reality-tickets-641277146207

The Decarbonisation Network

The Decarbonisation Network aims to connect University of Cambridge academics with external industry representatives working towards decarbonisation. Currently, there are three Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Light Harvesting, the Built Environment and Hard to Decarbonise Technologies. The SIGs have been identified as clusters of expertise within the University of Technology areas that can benefit from broader academic-industry collaborations. The Network works across the collegiate University, is supported by Strategic Partnerships Office and operates in collaboration with Cambridge Zero and the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre.

The Network was piloted from 2021-2022, with a full time coordinator beginning in August 2022. To date, over 20 online panel discussions and one in-person symposium have taken place focusing on a range of topics. All events are attended by a mixture of internal and external people, and there are currently ~400 specialists registered to the Network’s mailing list, half of whom are external and represent ~130 organisations. Summaries of meetings are available on the Network’s website.

We have received funding for this event from Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund via The School of Physical Sciences and The School of Technology.

Please direct any queries to decarbnetwork@admin.cam.ac.uk.

For more information on the Network please visit: https://www.decarbnetwork.hub.cam.ac.uk/