a prime focus for businesses worldwide, many are looking towards rapidly establishing new regions of
With expansion a prime
growth, particularly in Asia.
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UK India SIC Heralds Strengthening of Research and Innovation Partnership
Earthquakes, animal health and artifi cial intelligence (AI) are among the areas that leaders in the UK and India have committed to work on together through a strengthened partnership that brings £16 million for vital joint research and innovation.
Announced by the UK’s Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), George Freeman, and the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh, the new investment from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), matched by the Government of India, was launched during the UK-India Science and Innovation Council (SIC) in London on 26 April 2023.
Four joint programmes, including two funded through the new International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) will focus on:
- Improving farmed animal health and welfare through better understanding of infectious diseases and resistance to treatment
- Industrial research and development (R&D) collaborations for sustainability focusing on sustainable materials and manufacturing, or power electronics, machines and drives (or both)
- Solid Earth Hazards - Technology and skills partnership programme
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Speaking at the meeting, UKRI’s Chief Executive, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser said: “International collaboration in research and innovation benefi ts all involved, bringing together expertise and resources to go farther faster.
“The collaborations announced today span a wide spectrum of research and innovation, including environmental sustainability, food security and AI, with benefi ts that will be realised in the UK, India and across the world.”
Ottoline Leyser, UKRI
Director Designate of UKRI India, Sukanya Kumar said: “This is a moment to celebrate the deep and extensive relationship between UKRI and India. In addition to driving research and innovation excellence, our partnership with India brings positive impact to the lives of people in both our countries and across the globe. The new co-investment will pave the way for more joint research and innovation, which will drive sustainable growth and prosperity in the years ahead.”
The UK-India SIC takes place every two years alternating between London and New Delhi. As a result of the pandemic, this was the fi rst SIC since 2018.
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ilmt.co/PL/d1kA Technology Creates Immersive Nightscape Experience
A new hybrid planetarium system at Seoul Science Park, which opened in April, combines an opto-mechanical star projector and digital projection technology controlled by Zeiss Uniview software. The Zeiss Asterion Starball, the company’s latest version of a star projector is used as an analog component for a near- natural depiction of the starry night sky. Two Zeiss Velvet LED projectors complement the hybrid system with digital 360-degree fulldome projection.
The Starball has been for expanded for the Korean customer to include a lift for lowering the Starball from the centre of the 11m dome and is equipped with a scintillation device, which causes the stars to twinkle in response to a control command, similar as they do in nature by force of atmospheric infl uences.
The Starball has replaced the 30-year-old Zeiss M1015 star projector at the site.
Deuk-Sil Jeong, Vice President of the Seoul Science Park, was pleased with the new installation: “With the new planetarium technology, visitors to the planetarium at Seoul Science Park can enjoy a ‘perfect’ night,” he said. “The Zeiss Uniview planetarium software offers accurate and vivid astronomical visualisations.
It allows all phenomena of the universe to be displayed in a three-dimensional and immersive perspective beyond the earthbound view, all the way out to the remnants of the Big Bang.”
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The hybrid planetarium system at Seoul Science Park (Credit: Ki Dong Baek, Woosung Precision Optics)
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