Does your organisation have challenges or innovation ambition in the Creative-Digital/Crea-Tech space?

Academic expertise could help you to achieve and we currently have two places remaining on an upcoming Innovation Lab to develop a collaborative project, with funds available to cover the costs of academic time to work towards it.

The University of Manchester is inviting industry partners to put forward challenge briefs around the broad theme of Crea-Tech for an interactive Innovation Lab workshop with academics from a mix of creative, technical and social disciplines.

The event will enable development of collaborative project plans that could provide solutions to the challenges and inform future products and services.

The event will run from 12-5:30pm on 14th November 2024 in person on the University campus.

Business partners will be matched in advance with a team of academics from different but complementary disciplines and through a process of ideation and needs identification will develop a project plan that than then be pitched for seed funding to cover the initial academic time.

The University and Creative Manchester would love to hear from you and your potential challenge area.

The linked document further outlines the expectations from the day’s events and contains an EOI should you wish to participate.

Crea-Tech Innovation Lab Partner Invitation and EOI

Please return completed EOI forms to Rachel Kenyon on [email protected] or if you would like to understand more, please do not hesitate to contact us as we would be happy to set up a call to discuss how the format works and talk through potential ideas.