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Ten new research projects will address issues facing Colombia’s transition from conflict to peace.

UK Research and Innovation celebrates its China launch this week with events in Beijing, Shanghai, London and Swindon covering the breadth of UKRI’s activities and objectives

Five new technology centres based across the UK will work on ways to save lives using artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies, it was announced today (6 November).

Professor Jennifer Rubin will join leading figures from academia, business and civil society on a new body to evaluate the success of the government’s modern Industrial Strategy.

UK Research and Innovation has provided some guidance on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for researchers of all disciplines.

The formal launch of UK Research and Innovation in India has been marked with a series of events highlighting the long-standing and successful history of collaboration between the two nations.

UK Research and Innovation and the African Research Universities Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Agreement.

A workshop taking place this week, 22-23 October, aims to find research solutions to the detrimental impact of the combination of conflict and climate change.

UK Research and Innovation is one of five UK funders of international development research to have signed a statement of commitment to prevent and tackle harm and abuse in research for international development.

Leading research teams will join businesses and government departments to tackle the impacts of climate change on our towns and cities and the countryside.

Polluting waste generated during coffee production has been turned into electricity for the first time, scientists have revealed.

From plants grown from mattresses in refugee camps, to breeding greener cows, engineering plays a key role in global food security.

We look back at a successful week of events to raise awareness of the ambitious actions needed to tackle climate change and drive clean growth.

UK Research and Innovation welcomes the publication of a new report looking at how research organisations can enable fair and equitable partnerships between researchers across the global North and South working to addresses the challenges faced by developing countries.

A new £10 million centre will develop cutting-edge creative training and research programmes in immersive storytelling to ensure the UK creative workforce is the most skilled in the world in the use of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies.

UK Research and Innovation would like to congratulate Professor Sir Gregory Winter after the pioneering researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

UK Research and Innovation has today announced the appointment of a further two Challenge Directors who will lead work on the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF).

A new system is being rolled out as a first step towards supporting the continuity of funding for UK organisations which have been awarded grants from the European Union’s flagship programme for science and innovation.