Fifth Call Awardees Receive >£1M In Funding
Our Further Innovation call, Call 5, invited applications up to 12 months in length requesting up to £150k. Seven projects were funded, for a total of £915,000 of funding from the PQA for impact acceleration. The projects cover a broad range of applications, from collaborating with industry leaders in bringing new technology into their products…
Eight projects share in £388k of PQA impact funding
The awardees who have benefitted from awards in Call 4 continue to demonstrate that there is a wide variety of applications for photonics with great impact potential. Their projects span developing solution-enabling environmental sensing and low-carbon solutions, new sensing for the whisky industry, advances in medical development, and opening up access to molecular imaging. Eight…
Team from University of Strathclyde wins PQA School Experiment Challenge
A large-scale, hands-on experiment illustrating the process of laser cooling to immobilise atoms has earned a team from the University of Strathclyde first place in the PQA School Experiment Challenge.
