Over the summer, more than 120 undergraduate and postgraduate students tackled complex challenges posed by public, private, third-sector and community organisations in the latest Students as Change Agents Programme (SaCHA).
Over the summer, more than 120 undergraduate and postgraduate students tackled complex challenges posed by public, private, third-sector and community organisations in the latest Students as Change Agents Programme (SaCHA).
New report finds more support to help the City Region’s creative sector develop through better use of data-driven innovation and technology.
Students will build skills and understanding of global challenges in two different electives featuring the pandemic and societal responses to it.
Professor Shannon Vallor, Director of the new Centre for Technomoral Futures, asks why scientifically- and technologically-rich nations like the UK and the US failed in their response to the pandemic, and highlights the missing link for getting it right in the future.
The Centre for Technomoral Futures launches today with the aim to design more sustainable, just and ethical models of innovation.
Scottish Tourism receives hi-tech boost to help smooth road to recovery with the launch of Traveltech for Scotland. A new organisation supported by EFI to help Scotland’s tourism sector make a sustained recovery.
EFI research project working with experts from European leader in digital transformation, Sopra Steria, to develop a new data-driven tool to help people financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic find and access the right support, now and in the future.
Director, UoE Festivals, Cultural and City Events, Janet Archer, explores how the arts can be part of our civic, emotional and economic recovery and why creative communities are critical to coronvirus recovery.
Chair of the Strategic Advisory Panel for the EFI Centre for Future Infrastructure, Professor Gordon Masterton considers the impact of the pandemic on our tolerability of risk and the implications on our response to climate-change.
EFI research project collaborating with partners across the Scottish FinTech sector to develop data-driven solutions to democratise financial advice, help people to manage their money and access essential benefits and affordable lending.
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