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Podcasts / Connected Places Podcast

Episode: 68

The future of innovation procurement

Podcasts / Connected Places Podcast

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Episode: 67

Inclusive innovation in the West Midlands

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Event

Workforce Foresighting Hub (WF Hub) workshop

Join us for an All Hands Onboarding Briefing
15 hours ago
Article

City representatives reveal their smart city visions in Barcelona

Many of Great Britain’s foremost cities and regions joined Connected Places Catapult at the Smart City Expo World Congress to showcase their latest thinking and digital offerings.
19 hours ago

Article / Meet the Academic breathing new life into ailing cities

News / Eight innovators selected for Bristol Temple Meads testbed

Event / IPEC Annual Reception 2025: Empowering Local Authorities through Innovative Procurement and Shared Success Stories

News / Connected Places Catapult invites feedback to strategy refresh

News / West Midlands Innovators Set Out to Forge Ties in India

Opportunity / HMGCC Challenge: Rapidly deployed tech to track intruders

News / UK Innovation Districts Group and Connected Places Catapult commission UK Entrepreneurial Skills Study

Event / Drop in Session Three: National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025 

Event / Drop in Session Two: National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025 

Projects, opportunities

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Opportunity

HMGCC Challenge: Rapidly deployed tech to track intruders

The UK government requires temporary use spaces to be secured ensuring they haven’t been entered and compromised whilst left physically unattended. Intruder monitoring systems that can be easily and quickly deployed by non-technical staff are being sought in the latest challenge released by HMGCC Co-Creation.
3 days ago
Opportunity

HADeS Competition 2024

The Department for Transport (DfT), supported by Connected Places Catapult has launched the HADeS (High Assurance Detection Systems) competition 2024 to find new technologies, products, and services to enhance UK airports’ checkpoint security screening capability.
7 days ago
Project

Cybersecurity and Operational Modelling in Transport

As the UK’s cybersecurity landscape evolves, the demand for advanced skills continues to grow.
1 week ago
Project

Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo)

The Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) is a pioneering digital twin platform for climate change adaptation that improves system-wide resilience across infrastructure networks.
3 weeks ago

Reports

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Report

Unlocking the Potential of Rates Retention for Freeports & Investment Zones

This paper sets out the potential for Retained Business Rates (RBRs) to be utilised to fund infrastructure or support on-site developments to accelerate economic growth in Freeports (FPs), in particular and where applicable Business Rates Retention (BRR) for Investment Zones (IZs) and their surrounding areas, as part of wider regional place based economic growth.
3 weeks ago
Report

Home Retrofit for Public Health and Climate Resilience

A programme blueprint to achieving better outcomes for communities.
3 weeks ago
Report

UK-Japan Innovation Twins for Net Zero Report

The Innovation Twins Programme is an initiative designed to foster strategic collaborations between cities and regions across international borders.
2 months ago
Report

Aviation Futures: an interactive journey through space and time

The airport experience for passengers will transform over time with technological advancements in airport infrastructure, operations and design.
2 months ago
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