EU Horizon 2020 Call: Border Security and External Security

H2020-BES-2015Sub call of: H2020-BES-2014-2015 Planned Opening Date    25-03-2015 Publication date                 11-12-2013        Deadline Date     27-08-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) Total Call Budget               €20,090,000       Main Pillar           Societal Challenges Status    Forthcoming      OJ reference        OJ C361/9 of 11 December 2013 Topic: Maritime Border Security topic 2: affordable and easily deployable technologies for EU coastal border surveillance with reduced impact […]

EU Horizon 2020 Call: GREEN VEHICLES 2015

H2020-GV-2015Sub call of: H2020-GV-2014-2015 Planned Opening Date    24-06-2015 Publication date                 11-12-2013        Deadline Date     15-10-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) Total Call Budget               €30,000,000       Main Pillar           Societal Challenges Status    Forthcoming      OJ reference        OJ C 361 of 11 December 2013 Topic: Electric vehicles’ enhanced performance and integration into the transport system and the grid GV-8-2015

EU Horizon 2020 Mobility for Growth Call

 I’m heading up to Stirling University to meet with my long-standing research collaborator Prof Edmund Burke today to start consortium building for the EU H2020 call Enhancing resource efficiency of aviation        MG-1.2-2015. I’m expecting to also be integrating members of the FP7 projects MAAT and ACHEON into the proposal. We will be looking at research and innovation to […]

Call for Papers – Advances in Control Engineering A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702)

 A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2015 Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Paul Stewart School of Engineering, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK Website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/engineering/our%20staff/academic/paulstewart.aspx E-Mail: p.stewart@hull.ac.uk Phone: +44 1482 466665 Interests: complex system simulation, design and optimization; engineering applications of artificial intelligence; advanced control systems; power and energy […]

PESRI Member Prof Jill Stewart secures major HEFCE HE STEM grant

Congratulations to Prof Jill Stewart, Head of Engineering and Mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University who has been successful in securing £5 M from the HEFCE HE STEM Teaching Capital initiative to develop Engineering and Chemistry facilities to support increasing numbers of students studying STEM subjects. This project, a collaboration with the Department of Engineering and […]