Green Gown Awards 2013 - Research and Development - Lancaster University - Finalist

New Centre for Global Eco-Innovation develops eco-innovative products, processes and services

The £9.8M Centre for Global Eco-Innovation unites the expertise, resources and global contacts of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, and Inventya Limited, to develop new eco-innovative products, processes and services in collaboration with ambitious northwest businesses.

To achieve the centre’s objectives, a distributed team of over 200 people was established in a little over six months, including a core team of fifty graduate researchers, fifty project supervisors in the collaborating SMEs, over seventy academic supervisors and a centre management team across the three delivery partners.

For both universities, the realisation of projects across eleven departments is unparalleled. For Lancaster, admission of twenty five postgraduates in one year stands as the largest ever single year intake as a result of one initiative.

The centre is the only one of its kind in Europe and is part-funded bythe European Regional Development Fund.

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