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Innovation City Belfast
Feb 14, 2022
Belfast – a region which punches way above its weight when it comes to research excellence and innovation.
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Belfast Region City Deal partners poised to deliver on new 10X economic vision
May 31, 2021
Belfast Region City Deal partners are poised and ready to deliver on the Minister for the Economy Diane Dodd’s ambitious new economic vision ‘10X’, which will lead to better jobs with better wages and an improvement in people’s quality of life.
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Innovation holds the key to Belfast’s recovery
May 20, 2021
Innovation City Belfast today announced plans to put innovation at the heart of Belfast’s post-pandemic recovery.
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Stage set for new Screen Media Innovation Lab as part of Belfast Region City Deal
Apr 30, 2021
Momentum continues to build for the Belfast Region City Deal, with the aim that a deal will be signed this summer to kick off this transformative programme of investment in innovation and digital, tourism and regeneration, infrastructure and employability and skills.
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Memorandum of Understanding signed in historic day for cancer patients on island of Ireland
Apr 12, 2021
Leading health officials have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to reinvigorate and re-prioritise the Ireland–Northern Ireland–NCI Cancer Consortium (The All-Ireland Cancer Consortium (AICC)).
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Belfast Region City Deal partners to host apprenticeships webinars for employers in key sectors
Mar 21, 2021
Belfast Region City Deal partners are putting the spotlight on apprenticeship opportunities in key sectors for Northern Ireland through an upcoming series of insight webinars. These will be focused on how employability and skills will underpin plans to create jobs through the City Deal investment.
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Belfast selected as Pioneer City to explore the ethical use of smart city technologies
Nov 27, 2020
Belfast is joining 35 cities from around the world to pioneer a new global policy roadmap for the responsible adoption of new technology as part of the World Economic Forum’s G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance.
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Queen's joins Core Cities pledge calling on UK government to unleash regional innovation
Nov 4, 2020
Queen’s is one of 24 UK Universities to join with Core Cities, a collaborative advocacy group of large regional UK cities, to call on the UK government to harness the combined power of universities and cities to drive regional and national economic recovery.
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The Universities’ response to Covid-19 through the City Deal projects
Jul 30, 2020
Both Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast are actively supporting the fight against coronavirus on many fronts, making a real impact both at a global scientific level, delivering excellent teaching through our virtual learning environments and supporting one another at a local, human and practical level.
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Sonraí Analytics partners with Roche and QUB in £7m consortium to improve cancer outcomes
Jul 9, 2020
Sonraí Analytics is proud to be working with the Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence (PMC) at Queen’s University Belfast, and the world’s largest biotech company Roche, in a ground-breaking collaboration, to improve outcomes for patients with early-stage cancer.
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Ulster University Collaborates with NVIDIA to Strengthen Health Sector in Northern Ireland
Jul 7, 2020
New agreement will strengthen collaboration on the Belfast City Deal, specifically around the new proposed Centre for Digital Healthcare Technology (CDHT)
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Queen’s part of £33m funding boost to develop zero emission ferries
Jun 26, 2020
Researchers from Queen’s are part of a £33 million UK Government innovation grant to develop zero emissions ferries in Belfast over the next four years.
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Queen’s University Belfast welcomes City Deal budget announcement
May 6, 2020
Queen’s University Belfast, along with Belfast Region City Deal partners, have welcomed news of £350 million investment from Treasury announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in the Autumn Budget.
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Universities working together to deliver City Deal projects that make a difference
May 6, 2020
Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast have announced their commitment to work together to support innovation and drive economic growth across the region.
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£700 million City Deal investment will help Belfast Region bounce back from Covid-19
May 6, 2020
Belfast Region City Deal partners have said that confirmation of the NI Executive’s match funding of new investment for infrastructure, regeneration, and tourism projects will help the region’s economy recover from the effects of Covid-19.
