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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.

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Meet the Academic breathing new life into ailing cities

Rachel Granger wants more people to feel connected to their urban areas, and proposes new incentives to help forge meaningful connections.

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Eight innovators selected for Bristol Temple Meads testbed

From less stress to greener spaces, these eight ideas are bound for the Station Innovation Zone programme.

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Connected Places Catapult invites feedback to strategy refresh

Have your say on the Catapult’s refreshed strategy.

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West Midlands Innovators Set Out to Forge Ties in India

Seven firms specialising in clean technologies have joined the DIATOMIC India Accelerator programme.

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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.

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

The UK Entrepreneurial Skills study, which will focus on 16 – 25-year-olds, has been funded by Innovate UK and developed by UK Innovation District Group (UK IDG) and Connected Places Catapult. The study is in response to a concerning trend of a declining number of UK start-ups.

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Search begins for innovations that can enhance airport security

Funding and support are now available to businesses and academics with ideas to further improve threat detection at airports.

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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.