Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IDRIC Champion and Director, has been awarded best research project of the year at the Disruptors & Innovators (D+I) awards in Madrid. The event, which took place at the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, brought together more than 300 professionals and leaders of this industry, with the sponsorship of SAP, Amazon Web Services, […]
Transforming Foundation Industries Network – Funding Calls
Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ has launched two funding calls, including an open Early Career Research call and on the theme ‘Next Generation and Intelligent Processes’. Deadline: 1st April 2022. More information here: Funding Opportunities – TFINetwork+ (tfinetworkplus.org)
IDRIC Engagement Events – Spring and Summer 2022
IDRIC is currently planning a number of Partner events taking place over the next four months. We are working towards an in person event in June, a range of online events leading up to that as well as ramping up direct engagement with clusters. We are currently in contact with our partners to let them […]
UKCCSRC Spring 2022 Conference
IDRIC is taking part in a UKCCSRC Conference in April in Sheffield. The theme for the conference is ‘Building capacity for CCS deployment’. More information can be found here: UKCCSRC Spring 2022 Conference – 20-21 April 2022: Building capacity for CCS deployment – UKCCSRC
UK – China Decarbonisation Global Expert Mission, February 2022
IDRIC is taking part in an online Global Expert Mission focusing on UK and Chinese Decarbonisation. The event is taking place between 17-24th February 2022.
IDRIC December 2021 Update
It is already nearly the end of the year, Christmas is approaching real fast and we hope you are all set to have some relaxing time off. Just before you head off, the IDRIC team is pleased to announce that since our October 2021 update, we have welcomed 6 new team members: Clare Howard (Centre Manager), John Ferrier (Policy Research Officer), Isobel Marr (Knowledge Exchange […]
Driving the transition to Net Zero – can technology do it alone?
IDRIC’s reflections on COP-26 and our post-COP agenda Innovation in low carbon technologies is key for drastically reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sites and the UK economy more widely – but can technology alone drive the transition to net zero? From the high-level negotiations to the protests on the streets, the 26th UN […]
Net Zero Technologies Centre (NZTC) Global Summit
At the start of November, international research organisations came together to present, compare and discuss regional technology priorities which will accelerate industries towards net zero at the Net Zero Technologies Centre (NZTC) Global Summit. Mercedes Maroto-Valer – IDRIC Director and UKRI Industrial Decarbonisation Champion – launched the Summit by sharing this urgent message: ‘We need to work together, share […]
Mercedes Maroto-Valer, awarded best research project of the year at D+I awards!
Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IDRIC Champion and Director, has been awarded best research project of the year at the Disruptors & Innovators (D+I) awards in Madrid. The event, which took place at the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, brought together more than 300 professionals and leaders of this industry, with the sponsorship of SAP, Amazon Web Services, […]
Mercedes Maroto-Valer receives prestigious ACES-Margarita Salas Award
Mercedes Maroto-Valer has been awarded the ACES-Margarita Salas Awards in its first edition, in the category of Physics, Mathematics and Engineering. During the State visit to Sweden, The King and Queen of Spain presented the 1st ACES-Margarita Salas award in a private ceremony at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, during a meeting held with the Association […]
UKCCSRC Online Event – Update on UK Track 1 Cluster CO2 transport and storage plans
Wednesday 1st December 2021, 2-4pm GMT Laura Finlay, IDRIC Business and Impact Manager, will be attending an online event hosted by UKCCSRC on ‘UK Track 1 Cluster CO2 transport and storage plans’. This one will be followed by Q&A and discussion with Dr Bryony Livesey (UKRI), Ben Kek (Net Zero Teesside) and Martin Currie (HyNet […]