Below are some programmes operated by the University of Wales, Newport which you may find appropriate to your business or organisation:
A4B Funding
Academic Expertise For Business
Academic Expertise for Business (A4B) is a six year project funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and European Structural Funds to maximise knowledge transfer between academic institutions and business in Wales.
A4B consists of the best elements of the Knowledge Exploitation Fund (KEF), Centres of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration (CETIC), Know How Wales (KHW) and Accelerate Clusters (AC). These previously separate programmes have successfully worked with both Higher Education Institutions and, where appropriate, Further Education Institutions over the last seven years, delivering knowledge transfer to Welsh Industry and Businesses.
The aim of the overall programme is to promote a high value-added economy and to maximise the economic impact of academia and business through technology transfer and the creation of a stronger science, engineering and technology base with clear commercial potential. This will be achieved by the adoption of new processes, systems and services, or by improving substantially those already produced or installed. In turn, this will lead to the creation of high value jobs and ultimately, a value-added economy.
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Business Support Line: 01633 432400
Collaborative Industrial Research Projects
The Collaborative Industrial Research Project (CIRP) programme aims to encourage and enable groups of companies and academic institutions to carry out collaborative industrial Research & Development (R & D) projects in order to:
- Increase the level of business investment in R & D in Wales
- Develop the research base in Wales by working on important industrial/business problems
- More fully exploit the research base in Wales by creating new or improved products, processes and services. Ultimately, this will translate into an increase in high value employment
- Stimulate the formation of long-term collaborative relationships between academia and industry to enable the process to become sustainable
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Business Support Line: 01633 432400
GO (Graduate Opportunities) Wales
Formerly known as CPW (Cymru Prosper Wales) Subsidised short term student/graduate placements for SMEs
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Business Support Line: 01633 432400
Flexible Support for Business
Delivering expertise and knowledge into the economy via new and existing business
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Business Support Line: 01633 432400
KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership)
Subsidised graduate position for a strategic project within your company for between 1 and 3 years
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Business Support Line: 01633 432400