The UK’s innovation accelerator for transport,
Our programmes de-risks innovation for our partners alongside support SMEs in developing commercial partnerships and sustainable growth plans
We facilitate research driven partnerships that solve critical issues in three key areas and across six markets.
We develop researchers’ entrepreneurial mindsets to access industry, improve market offerings, and open up entirely new markets
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Universities and Industry Organisations
We deliver innovation funding programmes such as the Department of Transport’s Transport Research and Innovation Grants and Researchers and Residence. Academics are given opportunities to develop and scale their innovations with support from the Catapult. Our newly launched Affiliates Network strengthens the Catapult’s reach and impact in key innovation ecosystems.
Our Academic Network is an environment for exchange of ideas, knowledge, learning and the opportunity to promote collaboration. Join our network today, which already has over 1,100 members from 270 universities and industry organisations. Apply your academic expertise through opportunities such as our Researchers in Residence scheme
“Being a member of Connected Places Catapult’s Academic Network has allowed me to have better visibility over relevant events, projects and funding opportunities. The support offered by the Academic Engagement team has been very helpful in identifying areas where the impact of our project can be further exploited.”
Dr Donya Hajializadeh Senior Lecturer in Bridge/Structural Engineering, Director of Employability, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Surrey
To strengthen your networks, keep up to date with current challenges faced by companies and be best placed to meet industry needs.
To keep up to date with opportunities funded and supported by the Catapult and or our partners, such us: Innovation Funding Programmes, including Transport Research Innovation Grants and Researchers in Residence.
Access focused research and tailored reports from us and our partners, delivered straight to your inbox.
To extend your understanding of the funding landscape, hear of the funders you have not considered before, including private investors in innovation.
To share your research findings, tools and methodologies with our networks, to promote application and increase impact
To participate or contribute to our networking events and those of our partners
We created the platform to support universities and research & technology organisations to exploit and share their intellectual property.
After registering with the academic network, researchers are invited to share details of their work to receive specific methodical and technical feedback from our sector specialists and social and economic modelling teams.
We undertake a significant amount of analysis to provide the quantitative inputs into this process, confirming the viability of innovative research.
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We provide networking, business and innovation support for companies at all stages of their evolution.
Every year we facilitate hundreds of interactions between SMEs and the markets we operate in through our proven Innovation Ecosystem.
To showcase your innovative solutions to a network of VCs and angel investors, for a chance to raise seed and Series A money.
A series of masterclasses to overcome barriers to growth by addressing specific business needs, and helping businesses to develop new concepts, prototypes, products and services.
Work with our expert team to identify areas for growth & improvement, develop an action plan, and find resources to help take your business to the next level.
Business support and networking events that bring together our SME Community and key representatives of industry, government and funders to discuss cross-industry topics.
Networking events to convene with the marketplace, and meet industry players who are potential buyers for your solutions.
SME Accelerators provide intensive support for cohorts of startups, aiming to get them ready for investment quickly. Our programmes work with high potential SMEs in transport and urban innovation spaces.
We help secure early stage, proof-of-concept funding. Providing investment to de-risk emerging solutions and speeding up their route to market.
Connected Places Catapult is focused on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enables new levels of physical, digital, and social connectedness. Our company registration number is 11837978 and our registered office is 1 Sekforde Street, London, EC1R 0BE. Connected Places Catapult is registered with the Information Commissioner Office, registration number ZA773397.
This privacy policy applies to anyone who asks about, buys, or uses our services in any way (for example by email, through the website, or by telephone). We take privacy seriously and we want you as our service user, to understand the information we collect about you, how we process and protect the personal information which we collect about you, from you and from third parties, so that you can be confident that the information is being used safely and in ways that are reasonable expected, and what rights you have in respect of your personal information.
When we refer to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’, means Connected Places Catapult.
We may collect any of the following information, depending on how you interact with us as a service user:
Your personal information collected will be used to allow us to support innovative projects, create new commercial opportunities and improve productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places by:
Your IP address will be used to allow Connected Places Catapult to set appropriate access permissions on its website.
Our IP and footfall sensors will track movement within Connected Places Catapult London office as part of a ‘testbed’ project currently being run for SMEs to deploy their technology as a showcase and experimental environment. The data from this project will be used for analytical purposes only.
CCTV recording is un use at all Connected Places Catapult locations, this is used to ensure the security of property and premises and for the preventing and investigating crime purposes only. Area monitored by CCTV are sign-posted. Where necessary or required, this information is shared with you, police forces, security organisations and persons making an enquiry.
In many cases we pseudonymise or anonymise your information before we share it with others, or where we no longer require the information in identifiable form.
Anonymisation is the process of turning data into a form which does not identify individuals and where identification is not likely to take place.
Pseudonymisation is the process of information in such a way that it can no longer be attributed to you without the use of additional information and where that additional information is kept separately. This allows for a much wider use of the information for statistical or other purposes.
Directly from you, this information can be collected when:
Personal information can be collected from publicly accessible sources including external databases including:
When participating in projects, we may collect information about you from other providers.
We use your information for several purposes. Whenever we use your information, we must have a legal justification under data protection law for its use. The legal justification will depend on the purpose for which we intend using your information.
Our legal justification for processing your personal information generally falls into the categories below:
It is important that you understand that we may share your information with others. We may share your personal information within our group of companies and with third parties.
We may share your personal information within the Connected Places Catapult group of companies.
We may share your personal information with the third parties listed below for the purposes identified within this privacy notice:
We retain information in accordance with our legal obligations and national best practice. We ensure compliance through regular auditing and ensure information is securely disposed of when it has reached the end of its retention period. We implement data retention periods for different categories of personal data and/or different processing purposes, including where appropriate, archiving periods. We will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to support our legitimate business interests and to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.
A copy of Connected Places Catapult Records Management Policy can be provided upon request.
Connected Places Catapult supports innovative projects globally. We (or third parties acting on our behalf) may store or process information that we collect about you in countries outside the UK. Information may be transferred, processed, and stored outside the country where your information is collected, including countries where the level of data protection may net be deemed adequate by local legal or regulatory authority in the country of origin of the data. Where we make a transfer of your personal information outside of the UK, we will take the required steps to ensure that your personal information is protected.
Generally: e.g., if your permanent address is outside the UK, or the project is outside of the UK, we may send details to individuals specifically to promote your involvement within the project.
The safeguards in place to ensure that the data is securely protected are:
In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside the EEA. In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.
If you would like further information regarding the steps, we take to safeguard your personal information when making international transfers, please contact the Data Protection Manager using the details on the foot of this Privacy Notice.
Under data protection law you have several specific rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you. These include rights to know what information we hold about you and how it is used. You may also exercise these rights at any time by contacting us using the details set out at the top of this privacy notice and without adversely affecting your service.
We will not usually charge for handling a request to exercise your rights. If we cannot comply with your request to exercise your rights, we will usually tell you why.
If you make many requests or it is not reasonable for us to comply with a request, then we do not have to respond. Alternatively, we can charge for responding.
Under data protection legislation you have the right to:
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with the way that we have dealt with a request from you to exercise any of these rights, or if you think we have note complied with our legal obligations. Whilst you are not obliged to do so, we would appreciate you making us aware of any issue prior to notifying the ICO and giving us the opportunity to respond. You can contact either the Risk and Compliance Manager or Data Protection Manager using the postal address at the top of the privacy notice. More information can be obtained either on the ICO website (https://ico.org.uk/) or by calling 0303 123 1113.
Making a complaint will not affect any other legal rights or remedies that you have.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security to protect your personal information, this includes:
Please contact us if you require further information about how we secure your data.
If you have any queries or would like to exercise your rights or to establish whether any rights apply to you, please speak to the Data Protection Manager (dataprotection@cp.catapult.org.uk).
or by writing to the address at the top of this privacy notice, marking your communication “Private and Confidential – FAO Connected Places Catapult Data Protection Manager”
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 359 999
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to ensure that it remains accurate. If these changes result in any material difference to the manner in which we process your personal data then we will provide you with an updated copy of the Policy and signpost you to specific changes.
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