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ncat awards funding to innovation projects for enhancing transport accessibility

Connected Places Catapult is excited to be delivering the Scaling Innovation Programme on behalf of the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat), which has announced the selection of its first cohort of innovation projects.

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Maritime innovators invited to step forward for new transport accelerator

Up to eight innovative companies can receive support from leading industry players to develop new technology for use in ports and on vessels.

Opportunity

Transport Accelerator: Maritime 2025

Get support for ideas that could help with automating operations, integrating future fuels and improving safety in ports.

Report

Innovation in the west midlands: International Prospects and Place Partners

Connected Places Catapult has been instrumental in fostering innovation-driven growth in the West Midlands.

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Transport tech investor reveals strategy for backing successful firms

Venture capitalist Paul Miller speaks about his firm’s investment in Streetwise Technology, a pedestrian-friendly transport tech start-up, supported by Connected Places Catapult.

Opportunity

Surveillance challenge using edge AI

In this challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation wants to hear from organisations capable of enabling visual surveillance systems to operate with less power – using edge AI.

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Accelerating multi-modal transport across the UK

Senior transport representatives gave their views on improving project delivery and transport connectivity during a keynote session at the Connected Places Summit.

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Smart Cane inventor helps visually impaired people navigate transport hubs

Innovators working to make busy environments easier and safer to travel through are among firms to have developed technology with the help of a recent Connected Places Catapult programme.

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Security scanning innovator boosted by air mobility accelerator

Entrepreneurs focused on making airports easier and more pleasant to navigate are among firms to have developed their innovations through a recent Connected Places Catapult programme.

Podcast

In Conversation with Dan Labbad, CEO of the Crown Estate

In this episode we meet Dan Labbad, CEO of the Crown Estate – an independent commercial business, created by an Act of Parliament, with a diverse portfolio of UK buildings, shoreline, seabed, forestry, agriculture and common land.

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Built environment leaders speak out about planning reform

Lively discussion about the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill and how best to attract investors to the UK featured at the Connected Places Summit.

Opportunity

Tracking solutions for alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)

Small devices to track government staff, wherever they are in the world, are sought in HMGCC Co-Creation’s latest challenge.