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Join us for an insightful webinar on Unlocking Opportunities in the Horizon Europe Cluster 5: Climate, Energy, and Mobility Work Programme for 2025. This event will be delivered by the UK Horizon Europe National Contact Point team.

Event overview

Since 2021, over 300 UK organisations have benefitted from Horizon Europe funding in the Climate, Energy & Mobility Cluster, including over 180 businesses from across the UK.

Horizon Europe Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility focuses on tackling climate change, enhancing energy efficiency, and improving mobility systems. This cluster aims to foster climate action, support the transition to a climate-neutral society, and drive innovation in the energy and transport sectors.

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This event aims to help researchers and innovators:

• Understand the Scope: Gain a clear understanding of the Horizon Europe Cluster 5 work programme and its relevance to Climate, Energy, and Mobility research.
• Identify Funding Opportunities: Learn about specific calls and how to effectively apply for funding.
• Network Development: Acquire strategies for building a robust European network and finding research partners to enhance your research proposals.
• Proposal Writing Tips: Get practical advice on writing successful proposals and navigating the evaluation process.

Why should I attend?

For the UK research community, participating in these calls is crucial for staying at the forefront of global research and innovation, contributing to sustainable development, and accessing significant funding opportunities.

Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock new research possibilities and connect with experts in the field.

Agenda

• Welcome and Introduction
• Overview of the Calls: Detailed insights into the funding opportunities available under Horizon Europe Cluster 5
• Workshop: Strategies for building your European network and identifying potential research partners

Do people tune out when you talk to them about your research? Can you explain why your research is worth their attention? Do you know how to make your research better and enhance its impact by gathering external perspectives from industrial and commercial contacts?

This 3-hour workshop gives you the tools to discover and communicate the broader context of your work when engaging with industry and business contacts. It will help you explain the relevance and anticipated impact of your research to non-experts. Practice discussing your work among peers so that you can crystallise your message and make it relevant. This will maximise the value of your next opportunity to talk about your research to external contacts.

This workshop is particularly relevant if you are preparing to participate in a workshop, conference or poster session where you will be engaging with potential industrial partners. It is also relevant if you are looking for future sponsorship for your research, preparing for its commercial uptake, or even if you are considering a job outside academia!

Course Organised by: Maxwell Centre (www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk)

Please note for in-person courses the Maxwell Centre is on the U bus route.

Target audience

Cambridge postdoctoral and early-career researchers & late-stage PhD students

Prerequisites

You will need a computer and access to a web browser during the workshop.
Further information will be provided in the Booking Confirmation.
Cost: free of charge for participants, but no-shows may be asked to cover the cost of the wasted space on the course.

Register here: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/event/5754154

Course Agenda

1:30 pm - Coffee and tea on arrival

2:00 pm - Part 1: focuses on tips and tricks for identifying companies and individuals relevant to your research

3:45 pm - Break: an opportunity for informal chats

4:00 pm - Part 2: opportunities to practice describing your research and making your description exciting and relevant to the listener so that you get value from the conversation

5:00 pm - Workshop ends

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Seventh Assessment Cycle gets underway, Imperial College London's Grantham Institute are bringing together the UK climate research community to identify research priorities and opportunities in this hybrid event.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the UK launch of our new cost-effective AFM – the Dimension Nexus Benchtop system.

Register: https://info.bns.bruker.com/AFM-WS-Royce-Cambridge-May-2025.html

The Nexus is the latest addition to our AFM family – a cost effective, small footprint system designed to deliver wider access to top AFM performance, which includes:

• NanoScope 6 controller – highest speeds, lowest noise and versatility
• PeakForce Tapping technology – highest resolution, lowest imaging forces and widest sample type compatibility

The workshop will focus on the unique features of the system which has been designed to be easy to use, fully upgradeable – a welcome addition to multi-user labs where AFM expertise and applications vary and where physical space for instruments is at a premium.

In addition to talks from our technical experts we will also be demonstrating the system on a range of samples to provide a full overview of its capabilities.

The workshop will be valuable for researchers (from students, Post Docs to PI’s), experimental officers, lab managers and other scientists involved in material characterisation at the nanoscale.

Whilst this event is free to attend, space is restricted to allow participants valuable time with our specialists and the systems – so please register your interest as soon as possible.

The workshop is free of charge. Please click here to download the programme.

Agri-Food Robotics Online Conference, 15-16 May 2025

We would like to invite engineering researchers and students to take part in the Agri-Food Robotics Conference that will be happening online (Zoom), 15-16 May 2025.

A purpose of this conference is to figure out in what way Robotics and other modern technologies can help humankind to address global food challenges which are becoming fundamental to the planet’s existence.

By exploring related to Agri-Food industry research topics brought up in presentations and panel discussions, the conference will aim to address problems arising from climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices and highlight importance of developing modern technologies that may help to illuminate food shortages and soil degradation in future.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Henry Medeiros, University of Florida, USA

Matthew Howard, King’s College London, UK

Hiroki Mori, Co-founder of Tokuiten, Japan

Juan Bravo, Founder and CEO of Agrobot, Spain/USA

Josie Hughes EPFL, Switzerland

Letizia Mortara, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK

Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

Louise Sutherland, LINCAM/CERES, Cambridge Enterprise/University of Lincoln, UK

Elizabeth Sklar University of Lincoln, UK

Mario Caccamo, NIAB, UK

Stavros Vougioukas, UC Davis, California USA

Tyson Lee Swetnam, University of Arizona, USA

We would like to invite students of related to Robotics and AI fields to present their research at the conference break-out sessions.

If you wish to do so, please complete a relevant section in a conference registration form: https://forms.gle/iF7Jd2suJzxpGLCb7

More information and conference programme on the website: https://agriforwards.eng.cam.ac.uk/agri-food-robotics-conference-15-16-may-2025