The University of Nottingham will be giving a foretaste of their £40 million pound Horizon Digital Economy Research Centre, with the launch of the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) at the Jubilee Campus on Thursday 5 November. No event on the 5 November would be complete without a few fireworks, so the Centre will literally be launched with a BANG, as the event culminates with a spectacular display echoing the ethos of the Horizon Sunburst logo.
The Horizon DTC has already recruited 19 high-achieving doctoral students with multi-disciplinary interests and skills ranging across many subject areas including geospatial science, psychology, computer science, design and business and the occasion will showcase the preliminary work of these postgraduate students. It will also feature presentations and exhibitions of work associated with the Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub, such as the Thrill Laboratory.
The Horizon Digital Economy Hub and Doctoral Training Centre are funded by Research Councils UK as part of their initiative to stimulate the development of world-leading applications and technologies that exploit the possibilities of ubiquitous computing – ‘blurring the boundaries between the physical world and the digital world’. The research will explore the vision of a new digital society for the 21st century, where the impact of the digital economy will offer tremendous commercial potential. The national and international impact of the project is illustrated by the pledged support of £16 million from the University of Nottingham, together with £7.5 million from commercial partners such as Experian, Ordnance Survey, Microsoft, ScienceScope, TRL, KTN, the BBC, the British Library, BT, EADS Astrium, emda, Nottingham City Council, OGC and many others, enabling the research to develop and study next generation services, producing landmark examples that are grounded in the experience of deployment ‘in the wild’.
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Posted on Tuesday 28th February 2012