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🎉 Congratulations to UEA spin outs Cellexcel and Virilitas Labs for their success at the Innovation Alley Awards at #CamTechWeek! Cellexcel were announced winner of the prestigious Start-up of the Year award, while Virilitas triumphed in the People's Choice award 🏆

We're delighted to be headline sponsors for today's Innovation Alley at Cambridge Tech Week. Already having some great conversations with innovative businesses. Come along to our stand and learn more about how UEA could work with your business. So pleased to be joined on our stand by some really exciting businesses - Virilitas Labs, Ediform and Opau.

Tickets for this year's Sync the City have just gone on sale! Find out more here... John Fagan 🏄♂️ Julie Schofield Kat Downes

Not long to go now! We'll be at Innovation Alley on Tuesday 10 September, and colleagues will be at events throughout the week - let us know in the comments if we'll see you there! https://lnkd.in/eGbRPHRc

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Do you work from home and often wish you were part of a wider community? Join us at The Enterprise Centre, on the UEA campus, by taking a dedicated co-working desk. Find out more about the stunning location and excellent facilities here: https://bit.ly/4fWITKz. Hope to see you there soon!

Don’t miss the chance to register for the next round of the Help to Grow management course, starting on 30th September. The course is led by internationally leading experts from the Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia and has already been successfully delivered to 70 delegates. Hear more from Smash Marketing Norwich MD, Beks Houston speak about her experiences of the course. As a government funded programme just £750 is due to a business for the 12-week programme. Designed to fit around work, the course is aimed at business owners, CEOs and tomorrow’s senior business leaders. Delegates will cover a range of key leadership areas from strategy and innovation, building brand and vision and financial management, to growing national and international markets, leading for high performance, adopting digital technology and more. See here for more info and express interest: https://bit.ly/3SOMgcB. Don’t pass up this opportunity to take your leadership skills and your business to the next level.

Expression of Interest application deadline is THIS FRIDAY, 16th August. The June call for Expressions of Interest for our Lincam Agri-Tech Ceres and Agri-Tech Global calls is close of play Friday this week. These translational funding programmes are for academics who have Agri-tech technology that can create economic, environmental and social impact in the Lincam (Lincolnshire and N. Cambridge), East of England and globally. The Lincam call is open for all UK HEIs and EPSRC approved RTOs, must be 50% EPSRC scope, crop related and we accept proposals for Proof-of-Concept and Larger projects. For more information: UK HEIs: https://lnkd.in/e6qyaEDT For University of Cambridge and University of Lincoln: https://lnkd.in/e3k97uFP The Agri-tech Global call is open to University of Cambridge, University of Lincoln and University of East Anglia with small and larger project funding available. More information: https://lnkd.in/ePBWjbwF The EOI form can be downloaded from our website. Please get in touch with the Ceres Agri-tech team at info@ceresagritech.org if you want more information or to discuss an application. We look forward to receiving your applications! Cambridge Enterprise University of Cambridge Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge Louise Sutherland, Catherine Eyre, Emma Garfield, Polly White, Simon Pearson, Paula Eves, Faye Outram, Jonathan Bates, Steve Brewer, Heather S., Tyler Trenam

Don’t miss the chance to register for the next round of the Help to Grow management course, starting on 30th September. Only a few spaces remain for this next cohort. The course is led by internationally leading experts from the Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia and has already been successfully delivered to 70 delegates. See here for more info and express interest: https://bit.ly/3SOMgcB. Don’t pass up this opportunity to take your leadership skills and your business to the next level. As a government funded programme just £750 is due to a business for the 12-week programme. Designed to fit around work, the course is aimed at business owners, CEOs and tomorrow’s senior business leaders. Delegates will cover a range of key leadership areas from strategy and innovation, building brand and vision and financial management, to growing national and international markets, leading for high performance, adopting digital technology and more.

We're very excited to be sponsoring and exhibiting at Innovation Alley on Tuesday 10 September alongside some incredible startups* nurtured here at University of East Anglia - we hope to see you there! *Ediform Opau Virilitas Labs Cellexcel Safepoint