Dr Ailsa Harpur Research and Business Services University of East Anglia

1. Dr Ailsa HarpurResearch and Business ServicesUniversity of East Anglia An opportunity for the Nitrous Oxide Focus GroupNERC Knowledge Transfer

2. Routes to Engagement Students and Graduates: Employing students - EmployAbility Graduate and Post Graduate Recruitment Undergraduate Work experience (Intern projects) Undergraduate Year in Industry placements Post Graduate Projects (Intern projects) CASE (Co operative Awards in Science and Engineering) Industry Funded Fellowships Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Knowledge Catalyst STEP (Shell Technology Enterprise Programme) Industry Interchange Programme LINK Ideas, inventions and experts: Collaborative or Contracted Research Licensing Consultancy Spinouts

3. Aims of the scheme The NERC KT Call is designed to be a flexible scheme to enable the transfer of knowledge, people, skills and expertise between the NERC research base and its user communities, in particular: To assist the transfer of knowledge between the research base and the user community; To enable the formation of communities made up of the research base and users of research outcomes. This allows the exchange of ideas, knowledge, needs and requirements, and may generate new research directions where appropriate; To facilitate the training of people in the user community in techniques that have previously been retained within the research base; To allow the transfer of people between the research base and user organisations.

4. Funding for the Focus Group 3 years of funding for: Dedicated Facilitator/Translator Knowledge Exchange Workshops Regular network meetings Training programmes Secondments/exchanges/placements An advisory/consultancy service to support the user community A service providing reports, horizon scanning and policy reviews Publications for industries, the content and format defined by industry Cross-industry nitrous oxide training, including secondments/exchanges between the university and industry. Sustainability will be considered for Years 4 onwards

5. Benefits for �Business� access to cutting edge strategies, technology or innovation at the development stage an opportunity to view and steer development of project outcomes first hand experience of the potential availability to your corporate community of the nitrous oxide expertise, and technical developments, within UEA an opportunity to champion adoption of strategies, technology or innovation in the wider community (beyond your corporate community), including your customer base

6. How to get involved Letter of support No financial commitment Participation in activities Advisory Board position

7. What next? Bid submission with letters of support Formation of Advisory Board If funded, development of 3 year programme Implementation of programme

8. Contacts UEA staff present today Mrs Liz Magem, Business Development Manager, e.magem@uea.ac.uk Dr Ailsa Harpur, Strategic Programmes Manager, a.harpur@uea.ac.uk Professor David Richardson, Focus Group Co-ordinator, Dean of Faculty of Science