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“IUCRCs in Northern Ireland” Prof Jim Swindall OBE QUILL Research Centre

“IUCRCs in Northern Ireland” Prof Jim Swindall OBE QUILL Research Centre Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK IUCRC 30 th Anniversary Meeting Washington, DC, 9 th January 2004. TRANSFER OF THE IUCRC CONCEPT TO NORTHERN IRELAND. Population 1,685,267. Queen’s University Belfast

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“IUCRCs in Northern Ireland” Prof Jim Swindall OBE QUILL Research Centre

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  1. “IUCRCs in Northern Ireland” Prof Jim Swindall OBE QUILL Research Centre Belfast,Northern Ireland, UK IUCRC 30th Anniversary Meeting Washington, DC, 9th January 2004

  2. TRANSFER OF THE IUCRC CONCEPT TO NORTHERN IRELAND

  3. Population 1,685,267

  4. Queen’s University Belfast Founded in 1846 In top 20 of 170 UK universities 17,500 full and part time students 3,500 total staff 1,600 teaching and research staff 250 buildings, half listed as being of special architectural merit

  5. QUESTOR CENTRE

  6. Queen’s University Environmental Science and Tech- nOlogy Research THE NAME

  7. Questor Research Applied Research Blue Skies Research

  8. QUESTOR HISTORY • Founded 9th May 1989 • IFI – essential pump priming • $107,000 planning grant • $1.122 million over 5 years • Generated $38 million over 13 years • Leverage over 6 and over 100

  9. LOCAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE NSF CONCEPT

  10. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Senate Centre Policy Committee Industry Advisory Board Academic Advisory Board Centre Director National Science Foundation Centre Research Committee NSF Evaluator

  11. QUESTOR FOCUS • End-of-pipe Treatment • Clean Technology • Water Treatment • Land Remediation • Environmental Modelling • Environmental Communication

  12. INTERDISCIPLINARITY Chemistry Computer Science Chemical Engineering Microbiology Agriculture Civil Engineering Psychology

  13. OWNERSHIP BY THE MEMBERS • Constructive relationship • Honoured guests • Control of research agenda • Anniversary prize

  14. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER • Holy grail of all governments • Students and staff moving • Industry members interacting • Mods eg ATU and QTL help this process

  15. LOCAL EXTENSIONS TO THE CONCEPT • Help for SMEs • Applied Technology Unit • QUESTOR Technologies Ltd.

  16. QUESTOR Applied Technology Unit

  17. Applied Technology Unit – Formed Sept 1999 Set up to apply knowledge and expertise developed in QUESTOR to assist local companies, particularly SMEs which cannot afford the $32,500 membership fees of QUESTOR QUESTOR ATU

  18. CONSULTANCY and TRAINING • Consultancy • Currently 12 projects with a total value of $3.4m • 140 Companies have used the Service • 210 Consultancy Projects

  19. CONSULTANCY and TRAINING • Training courses • Practical Waste Minimisation • Operation of Water Treatment Plant • Data Collection for Environmental Management • Site Investigation for Contaminated Land • Environmental Communication

  20. QUESTOR TECHNOLOGIES Ltd

  21. QTL • Business Areas • Sludgeguard – a test for microthrix parvicella • Biosettler – a process for improving the settling of activated sludge • Biocol – a process for the removal of colour from textile effluent • Precursors made by biocatalysis • Phosphate reduction system

  22. Range of Environmental Products Based on Novel Technologies Revenue from Royalties and QUESTOR Membership ATU Consultancy Contract Research Training QUESTOR Research Programme QUESTOR Technologies Ltd Revenue From Research Funding and Sub-Contract Work LINKAGES Applied Research Programme For Selected Projects with Commercial Potential Product Support Product Development

  23. QUILL Research Centre

  24. THE NAME Queen’s University IonicLiquid Laboratories

  25. Founded on 20 April 1999 Founding Co-Directors - Prof Ken Seddon and Prof Jim Swindall 18 Members - $500,000 pa in subs $800,000 refurbishment of laboratory suite completed 29th October 1999 QUILL HISTORY

  26. Six post docs, four technicians and fourteen PhD students Numerous National Research Council grants awarded Manufacturing Molecules grant DTI/EPSRC LINK award of $950,000 Designated an EU Marie Curie Training site in Feb 2000 and renewed Nov 2003 Income to date $9.2 million QUILL HISTORY

  27. Two Types of Centre • QUESTOR – broad focus with wide range of disciplines – one Director • QUILL – highly focussed, still interdisciplinary but leading edge research in new field – two Directors – one research and one organisation

  28. CONCLUSION • Valuable mechanism for structured co-operation • Well proven in the USA • Flexible • Shown to be Transferable

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