To design and develop a 'smart e-business system for innovative e-marketing' for seamless collaboration between design and production engineers, senior managers and sales representatives, with live online product design to enable customers to make timely purchase decisions.

TERRASAFE is a pioneering initiative envisaging to empower local communities in southern Europe and northern Africa to successfully face the escalating challenges of desertification through the adoption of nature-based, social and technological innovations. TERRASAFE’s vision will be operationalized in 5 pilot areas that share a high vulnerability to desertification but, simultaneously, represent the 4 main types of desertification (vegetation decline, soil degradation, water scarcity, and depopulation) and strongly contrast in socio–cultural-ecological circumstances. This vision is supported by a transdisciplinary consortium, ranging from universities to SMEs commercially exploiting innovations. TERRASAFE’s vision is implemented through a multi-actor approach covering all WPs, in particular by setting up 5 partnerships in the 5 pilot areas. In a co-creation process, these partnerships will then (i) define their visions on building desertification resilience and plan their ensuing TERRASAFE work; (ii) map and analyze past and ongoing desertification, identifying hotspots; (iii) evaluate and demonstrate innovations at these hotspots, comparing them with current and traditional/organic practices; (iv) elaborate policy recommendation for the wider uptake of the TERRASAFE-certified innovations, both within and beyond the pilot areas, taking into account lessons learnt from past and ongoing policies against desertification; (v) share their TERRASAFE’s experience with the other areas, other desertification-prone communities and the general public. The consortium will support the partnerships by providing not only harmonized frameworks for each activity but also advice on adapting these frameworks to their specific needs. Finally, the SMEs will provide a wide offer of innovations that they will tailor towards the respective desertification hotspots, in close collaboration with the partnerships.

To enhance the recruitment for and delivery of existing services in a way which fits the post-covid landscape. To develop a two-directional Machine Learning recommendation system to make suggestions as to a given candidate's career trajectory and course suitability.

To develop an industry leading novel tool, enabling consistently applied assessment, recommendations and interventions for personal skills development.

To embed an innovative, integrated, 'smart' e-business system that provides a holistic approach to marketing and customer engagement, necessary to improve operational efficiency and support Exception PCB's high growth business strategy.

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Covid19 has necessitated a rapid shift to digital communications by all individuals and organisations. Platforms that were already being used regularly by some (eg Teams, Zoom) have now become essential to many, and new solutions and technologies continue to emerge, along with the collective knowhow. However, these have not been able to fill the hole in the communication, conversation, networking and engagement space left by the absence of face-to-face shows, meetings and events in agriculture. There has so far been no formal evaluation of the impacts of Covid19 on Knowledge Exchange (KE) in agriculture or other sectors. Such KE is essential to progress in agriculture, enabling the improvement of food security & quality, productivity, profitability, sustainability, social welfare and the environment. Covid19 has highlighted the importance of agriculture in the UK, which now faces multiple challenges (and opportunities). UK agricultural productivity has lagged behind competitors for decades, in part due to fragmentation of the knowledge system. As the UK's leading independent provider of agricultural research and KE, ADAS will lead an Action Research approach, working with practitioners to evaluate and provide urgent insights into the impacts and responses in the AKIS and what KE approaches work best in the face of Covid19 disruption. Multiple stakeholders will co-create a new digital solution (Farm-PEP), bringing together tools, experience and knowhow to provide a dedicated Covid-secure online community space for KE. Crucially, this will integrate existing tools & initiatives (The Farming Forum, Agri-techE, Innovative Farmers, Yield Enhancement Network, Agricology, AHDB) and make full use of the social media, video and podcasts which have become important in recent months. Nothing comparable to Farm-PEP currently exists. Current platforms are disjointed and siloed, with discussions temporary in nature, easy to miss, and rarely leading to rich outcomes or collaboration. They do not contribute to a recognised knowledge base, with little opportunity for inclusive distillation, connection, development of ideas for further exploration or forming of coherent messages for widespread adoption. Farm-PEP will provide the space for deeper, trusted, meaningful connections, knowledge sharing, community building and collaboration. It will provide solutions and spaces where people can find out what's going on across the industry, can demonstrate what they are doing and solicit feedback in order to build shared knowledge. It will enable serendipitous, synchronous and asynchronous discussions and connections to be made around topics of interest.

To research, design and develop a smart e-Comms system to integrate info systems with 3rd party systems in real time. This will create a Big Data pool offering opportunities to add value through retaining/enlarging and opening new markets.

Awaiting Public Project Summary

"An increasing number of people around the world are enjoying the health benefits of internal devices such as cardiac pacemakers and insulin pumps. An unfortunate reality is that there are also an increasing number of people who seek to do harm to others. The potential cyber security threat to these implants has become cause for concern. The solutions currently on the market to counter this threat have a number of known flaws which create vulnerabilities. Researchers at the University of Gloucestershire and Imperial College London have overcome these deficiencies by creating an encrypted communication protocol between the implanted device and the external gateway that controls it. With millions ofpeople relying on medical implants for their health and wellbeing, Innovate UK funding has helped researchers to complete the final stages of bringing a solution to market. A solution which will protect people from the threat of a cyber-security attack that could have life threatening consequences."

Awaiting Public Project Summary

Smart Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) have many benefits for both patients and care providers, with real-time monitoring, tuning the IMD based on the patient's need, updating the IMD firmware for better functionality and contributing real-time data for medical research. Considering the aging population, increases in chronic disease and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market has reached an estimated $398 billion in 2017 with the market expanding at an expected rate of 3% per year until at least 2022 based on a report in 2017 from Harvard Business Review. At the same time the security of IMDs, becomes a great concern by many reports have been surfaced regarding the vulnerabilities of IMDs. Recently, in 2016, it has been shown how an attack to a brain's IMD could take control of the implant and do some alteration on the victim's emotion. In another example in 2016, Reuters reported vulnerabilities in insulin pumps created by Johnson & Johnson, where the attacker is able to intercept the commutation and/or request for a wrong dosage of insulin. As the result, more than 100,000 patients were advised to stop using remote control functionality of the device. In 2017, MedSec reported that more than half a million people in US were in danger because of the vulnerabilities found in St. Jude pacemakers. Based on the report published by WhiteScope in May 2017 reviewing four brands of IMDs, they have found almost 8,000 vulnerabilities in these devices mostly caused because of no or static encryption keys used between IMD and its gateway. To solve this problem, we have developed a new protocol which can provide secure communication between IMD and the gateway using temporary keys. The solution has been examined on a very large pool of data and proved to be as secure as AES algorithm. This methodology not only solves the problem of static keys in IMDs, it provides the opportunity to pair more than one device to an IMD or among IMDs.

To develop a future-proofed, multi-platform software solution to enable surveyors, designers, geologists and engineers to visualise, manipulate and extract - with some degree of automation - features and terrain models from potentially huge pointcloud datasets.

To develop a banknote lifecycle solution to monitor and analyse the degradation of bank notes and how this varies for notes with different printing attributes

To design and develop an innovative automatic vehicle tyre pressure monitoring system to enable entry into new markets.