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Connected Places Catapult
Accelerating smarter living and travelling in between the places of tomorrow

COVID-19 SME Support

Connected Places Catapult is continuing to support UK businesses while we work remotely as a team in these unprecedented times, and have pulled together the best resources that ourselves, UK government and other institutions are providing to help support innovators.

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Innovation Brief: Post-Pandemic Places

Innovation Brief looks back at how connected places businesses and place leaders rose to the occasion in responding to COVID-19, considers trends and changing market demand as we move into the restart phase, and signals longer-term opportunities to define our eventual recovery.

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How neuroscience could shape a more empathetic built environment

By Pam Alexander OBE, Chair of Commonplace Digital Ltd and Board member of Connected Places Catapult.
09 July 2020

Time for collaboration: Can Local Planning Authorities come together?

The art of successful urban planning should always be underpinned by local context, but in practice it tends to be...
08 July 2020

Winners announces for the ADEPT Live Labs SIMULATE programme

As part of the ADEPT Smart Places Live Labs project, SIMULATE (Smart, Infrastructure & Mobility Urban Laboratory and Test Environment)...
07 July 2020

Innovating Through Public Procurement, a UK - Brazil Combined Effort for Economic Recovery and Sustainable Growth

The COVID 19 crisis has amplified the need for innovative solutions and governments are responding by deploying procurement tools. We...
03 July 2020

UPRN Uncovered - What you need to know about the newly released Property Identifiers

The Geospatial Commission’s official announcement to release core identifiers under Open Government Licence mandated by the Open Standards Board is...
03 July 2020

Data Science fellows for local government

What are our data science fellowships? The Catapult’s latest data science fellowships are at various stages of completion and we...
02 July 2020

Connected Places Catapult launch Post-Pandemic Places Innovation Brief

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 – both its devastatingly sudden curtailment of the old normal and what the green shoots...
29 June 2020

Urban Links Africa - Open Call

UK SMEs are invited to partner with South African and Kenyan organisations to address key urban challenges in six cities
24 June 2020

Mind the gap

We’ve flattened the curve and now we’re flattening the curb to create gaps on our streets for pedestrians and cyclists.
22 June 2020

Positively disrupting: Start-ups vs. the pandemic

How are these changes manifesting in the community of SMEs which are intent on disrupting the built environment and transport...
18 June 2020

HS2 launches Innovation Accelerator initiative to drive new ideas

Today, the new HS2 Accelerator, a programme for start ups with entrepreneurial ideas to drive project efficiencies, and create wider...
16 June 2020

COVID-19 SME Support Hub

Connected Places Catapult is continuing to support UK businesses while we work remotely as a team in these unprecedented times....
12 June 2020

It takes a virus? Leveraging COVID-19 to accelerate Levelling-Up

Prof Greg Clark CBE, Chair, Connected Places Catapult.
08 June 2020

Connected Places Catapult welcomes Prof Greg Clark CBE as new chair to help spearhead new chapter

08 June 2020

Enabling Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management in the UK report launched

A new report from Connected Places Catapult’s explores the steps the UK has taken to be at the forefront of...
22 May 2020

Innovative SMEs Join Intelligent Mobility Accelerator

Innovative start-ups and SMEs using; artificial intelligence to improve electric vehicle charging; big data to solved public transport inefficiencies; and,...
18 May 2020

The UK Drones Pathfinder Programme is pleased to announce the addition of a new Pathfinder led by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency

A ground-breaking new project announced today (12th May) will allow the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to regularly and routinely...
12 May 2020

Radical Innovation for Places post COVID report published by Connected Places Catapult

Radical Innovation for Places post COVID, is a concise report that reflects on the benefits of ambitious innovation programmes and...
11 May 2020

Latest News and Insights

Discover the latest updates and blogs from the Connected Places Catapult as we help shape a connected future for the places we live.

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South African Challenge and Partnership-Building Webinar

The Urban Links Africa team is inviting UK SMEs to form Equitable Partnerships with South African organisations to develop a collaborative solution...
14 July 2020

Kenyan Challenges and Partnership Building Webinar

The Urban Links Africa team is inviting UK SMEs to form Equitable Partnerships with Kenyan organisations to develop a collaborative solution to...
16 July 2020

Third Thursday: Post-Pandemic Places

The onset of coronavirus and the drastic, mitigating measures that it has necessitated globally have brought a dire set of...
16 July 2020

Plantech: a Singaporean Perspective

In this webinar Plantech experts from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will share with our audience the latest advances being made in...
17 July 2020

The CertiCAV Safety Assurance Framework for CAVs: Consultation Workshop

Join us for The CertiCAV Safety Assurance Framework for CAVs: Consultation Workshop
21 July 2020

Urban Links Africa: Online Application Support and Q&A Session

The Urban Links Africa team will be hosting sessions for applicants to access support and ask questions around their applications.
21 July 2020

Avoiding Carmageddon Post-Covid-19

Covid-19 may leave permanent changes to our economies, societies and cities. While many are optimistic we can rebuild in ways...
22 July 2020

Our next Virtual Connections Cafe will take place on Wednesday 22nd July
22 July 2020

Innovation Matchmaking Ideation Event

Four-day (27 July – 30 July) long business and pitching event to bring together small businesses and inventors from the...
27 July 2020

Understanding and Improving Air Quality – learning from recent research and start ups

In this webinar we look at a couple of the Catapult’s Researcher in Residence (RiR) Projects plus some insights and...
29 July 2020

Data Science Fellowship Webinar

In this webinar Connected Places Catapult will be sharing and discussing how the Data Science Fellowship partnerships with Local Authorities...
04 August 2020

Latest Events

Stay informed, network, learn and engage at our industry leading events across the country. Our events cover innovations in areas such as the built environment and mobility services.

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Report: African Cities Innovation Analysis

Our African Cities Innovation Analysis seeks to provide UK innovation businesses and Innovate UK with insights into the innovation landscape in African cities, an overview of several East African and South African cities in particular and recommendations for engagement in the African Innovation marketplace.

The City Standards Network

The City Standards Network is helping to build a more unified, human centred approach to creating, finding, and implementing standards.

Marine Autonomous Transport

Autonomous road vehicles have been grabbing headlines as the technology advances and increasing numbers of manufacturers develop prototype technologies. But quietly, other industries have also been making strides towards autonomy including the maritime sector.

Who we are

The new Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow. We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. The Connected Places Catapult operates at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places.

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We work with people and places to define, create, test, and deploy products and services that help secure wellbeing for us all.

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Connection is what drives innovation in placemaking: connected citizens, communities, public and private stakeholders; connected infrastructures and systems; connected data and information; connected languages and standards.

By embedding intelligent connection at every level of our social infrastructure and transport systems we can make places that work holistically for all of us, and the world we live in. The exponential evolution of digital technology is delivering the tools needed to create connected places fit not just for the future wellbeing of people and the environment – but also for innovative infrastructure and entrepreneurial economies.

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