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How do we address skills needs in transport innovation?

The Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, working alongside key partners to accelerate innovation in the places where we live, work and travel. By assessing, predicting, mapping and delivering much-needed skills for the future, the Catapult is helping to overcome emerging gaps which threaten to impact success in this area of national importance.

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How do we address skills needs in transport innovation?

The Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, working alongside key partners to accelerate innovation in the places where we live, work and travel. By assessing, predicting, mapping and delivering much-needed skills for the future, the Catapult is helping to overcome emerging gaps which threaten to impact success in this area of national importance.

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Catalysing the future of flight

Connected Places Catapult is working at the leading edge of opportunity and innovation in aviation, spanning areas such as unscrewed air mobility, digitising airspace management and Zero Emission Flight.

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Stimulating investment in decarbonisation of UK cities

The Connected Places Catapult is leading a world-first alliance across the UK’s major cities to secure the long-term finance necessary for achieving net zero. The Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci) is helping cities to attract public and private sources of financing for a £300bn+ market opportunity for a multi-intervention place-based Net Zero transition.

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Sparking an innovation cluster in the Belfast City Region

Connected Places Catapult has been supporting place leaders in Belfast to create new opportunities for businesses since 2016, resulting in a successful bid for a City Region Deal which is forecast to deliver £2 billion in additional GVA and 10,000 new jobs.

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Creating a new future for Belfast

Belfast has been working hard to create a new future but the region’s productivity gap remains, with Belfast’s productivity standing at 6% below UK levels, and the gap rising to almost 20% for Northern Ireland as a whole.

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Leveraging UK expertise to address Net Zero challenges in Latin America

The quest for a green recovery from the pandemic and renewed Governmental commitments to tackle climate change, is fuelling the translation of Net Zero pledges, plans and ambitions into real world actions in cities globally. Connected Places Catapult is helping to address these challenges with several collaborations in Latin American cities.

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Leveraging UK expertise to address Net Zero challenges in Latin America

The quest for a green recovery from the pandemic and renewed Governmental commitments to tackle climate change, is fuelling the translation of Net Zero pledges, plans and ambitions into real world actions in cities globally. Connected Places Catapult is helping to address these challenges with several collaborations in Latin American cities.

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The importance of allyship in supporting workplace wellbeing

Allyship is about creating an inclusive culture at Connected Places Catapult. By creating a safe, open environment where people feel able to talk about their experiences, Connected Places Catapult encourages every employee to take individual responsibility for considering the wellbeing of their colleagues.

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The importance of allyship in supporting workplace wellbeing

Allyship is about creating an inclusive culture at Connected Places Catapult. By creating a safe, open environment where people feel able to talk about their experiences, Connected Places Catapult encourages every employee to take individual responsibility for considering the wellbeing of their colleagues.

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Sparking the innovation potential of every place

All innovation happens somewhere. Connected Places Catapult is partnering with research and development institutions across the UK to mobilise a network of effective innovation ecosystems. These partnerships enable universities to connect with the technology ecosystem and spark new innovations.

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Securing the future of drone services

Connected Places Catapult is partnering with IoT security start-up, ANGOKA and Cranfield University to protect drone communications in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Authentication System project.

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Intelligent mobility solutions

With support from Connected Places Catapult, Ginger Town, a micro-mobility fleet operator, is accelerating its deployment of e-mobility solutions in UK towns and cities.

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Supporting integrated transportation ecosystems

The Connected Places Catapult worked with Arrival to meet sustainability targets through the use of existing motorway infrastructure together with autonomous vehicles and new transport hubs, to provide more frequent services across the country.

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