12-3pm, Tuesday 15th October 2019

G21/22 Devonshire Building

We will be welcoming Anna Taylor, the DASA Innovation Partner, to talk about innovation funds available for a wide range of activities as part of the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA).

DASA’s vision is for the UK to maintain its strategic advantage over its adversaries through the most innovative defence and security capabilities in the world.They achieve this by finding and funding innovative ideas from academia & industry and seeking to rapidly bring them into use across defence and security. DASA routinely seek solutions to challenges from a broad range of government end users. Examples include: improved security features for banknotes, improving rail security, medical technologies, autonomous systems & advanced materials. Solutions could originate from any field of research.

Anna Taylor, the DASA Innovation Partner for the North East will give a briefing (12-1pm) about DASA followed by the opportunity to book a 10 minute 1-1 session (1-3pm). The briefing will review how academia can benefit from working with DASA, and identify some of the current challenge competitions & funding opportunities. The briefing will also outline how to engage with DASA’s all year round open call, and themed competition challenges. To review DASA’s current innovation competition calls click here.

To sign up for this event and to book a 1-1 appointment with Anna, please register here by October 8th 2019. Slots will be allocated on a first come first served basis.