Imperative

People’s experience

Places prosper when they understand and design for the needs of people. Connected Places Catapult has access to a range of capabilities which help partners to understand changing needs and to design for experience.

What's new

Report

Home Retrofit for Public Health and Climate Resilience

A programme blueprint to achieving better outcomes for communities.
News

Funding and support available for transport accessibility innovators

Up to 15 companies will be selected to receive up to £150,000 each in a new transport accessibility competition.
Opportunity

National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025

Introducing the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025, delivered by Connected Places Catapult in partnership with the ncat consortium. This programme is dedicated to funding those pioneering solutions that enhance transport accessibility for disabled people. 

Projects, opportunities & Case Studies

Opportunity

National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025

Introducing the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) Scaling Innovation Programme 2025, delivered by Connected Places Catapult in partnership with the ncat consortium. This programme is dedicated to funding those pioneering solutions that enhance transport accessibility for disabled people. 
Opportunity

Call for proposals: challenges and innovation in urban commercial real estate and public spaces

Connected Places Catapult is pleased to invite proposals for research to help drive innovation in the urban Commercial Real Estate (CRE).
A group of nine smiling adults, including one person in a wheelchair, is sitting outdoors on a sunny day in front of modern buildings and trees.
Project

Homes for Healthy Ageing

The Homes for Healthy Ageing programme demonstrates the role that innovation, collaboration and a human-centred approach can play in accelerating the development of healthy, age-friendly homes and neighbourhoods.
Station Innovation Zone
Project

Station Innovation Zone

Bristol Temple Meads has been established as UK’s first ‘Station Innovation Zone’, trialling new technologies designed to upgrade passengers’ experience.
A waterfront scene along the Mersey with docked boats, historic red brick buildings on both sides, and a view of an ornate cathedral in the distance under a partly cloudy sky.
Project

Moving on the Mersey

The history of the UK is one of trade, where we’ve been moulded and defined by our global connectivity through the seas. This is also true at a regional level, such as in Liverpool, the Solent, London and the Northeast