**QUARTZ explores how advanced quantum sensing can transform the way the United Kingdom plans, builds and maintains its transport infrastructure.** The project investigates the use of quantum gravimetry, a second-generation quantum technology that measures minute variations in the Earth's gravitational field to reveal what lies beneath the surface without excavation. By applying this technique, QUARTZ aims to make road, rail and construction projects more efficient, resilient and sustainable. **Traditional survey methods, such as ground-penetrating radar or seismic imaging, are limited in depth and accuracy, often missing hidden features such as voids, sinkholes or unstable ground.** Such gaps in subsurface data cost the UK transport sector billions of pounds each year through unplanned repairs, project delays and infrastructure failures. **Quantum gravimetry offers a potential step change by detecting underground density changes to depths of up to fifty metres with far greater precision. This capability could allow engineers to identify potential risks before construction begins, improving safety and reducing disruption.** **As one of the first projects to apply quantum gravimetry** to UK transport infrastructure, QUARTZ will integrate quantum sensors with open data from the British Geological Survey and Ordnance Survey to test the technology in real-world conditions. **Quantum data** will be combined with **digital-twin models** that visualise underground structures in three dimensions, enabling engineers and planners to **make more informed, evidence-based decisions.** **The approach is expected to enhance subsurface understanding and support more effective asset management across transport networks.** **The project will also develop an outline business case** to evaluate how quantum sensing could be adopted commercially within the UK transport sector. **The study will assess the potential for reducing costs and survey time compared with conventional techniques, while exploring how non-invasive quantum methods could lower the environmental impact of infrastructure projects.** These outcomes are envisaged to demonstrate how quantum sensing may contribute to the UK's wider innovation and Net Zero objectives. Fully delivered within the United Kingdom, QUARTZ will share its results with the UK's quantum and transport communities. By advancing quantum gravimetry from laboratory research to applied transport use, the project is paving the way for quantum technologies to revolutionise how the UK builds and maintains its critical infrastructure.

AI TrustGuard (AITG) is a **comprehensive AI-driven platform designed to address the growing need for AI compliance, risk management, and explainability** across various industries. As AI systems continue to permeate diverse sectors, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, ethical guidelines, and industry-specific standards has become increasingly critical. AITG aims to tackle these challenges by providing an extensive and automated solution for auditing, monitoring, and ensuring the trustworthiness of AI systems while fostering transparency and accountability. The core innovation of AITG lies in its **unique combination of advanced machine learning** algorithms, and **domain-specific expertise**. This powerful fusion enables AITG to offer a comprehensive and automated solution for AI system auditing, which is more efficient and scalable compared to traditional, manual auditing methods. By reducing the auditing process time significantly, AITG stands out as a cutting-edge approach to managing the complex and dynamic nature of AI systems. AITG further differentiates itself from alternative solutions through its **real-time monitoring** and alerting capabilities, empowering businesses to proactively address compliance and risk-related issues. Moreover, its suite of **explainability tools** promotes transparency and responsibility, allowing organizations to understand and explain AI-generated decisions, a feature rarely found in other solutions. AITG caters to a vast **market opportunity**, given the increasing reliance on AI systems across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and more. As AI adoption continues to grow, so does the demand for **robust compliance** and **risk management solutions**. AITG addresses this need by offering a comprehensive platform that not only ensures adherence to regulations and ethical guidelines but also promotes transparency and trust in AI systems. Additionally, AITG offers an **affordable** solution due to its automated nature, which significantly reduces the time and resources required for AI auditing and monitoring compared to traditional methods. This efficiency translates into cost savings for businesses, making the platform a more attractive option. Furthermore, the potential cost savings from **avoiding regulatory penalties**, reputational damage, and operational risks make AITG a worthy investment. In summary, AITG represents a detailed and comprehensive solution to the growing need for **AI compliance and risk management**. Its unique blend of advanced technologies, real-time monitoring, and explainability tools sets it apart from competing solutions, while its cost-effectiveness and scalability make it an appealing and investable option. By embracing AITG, businesses can ensure responsible, ethical, and secure AI adoption, ultimately **benefiting various industries and the society at large**.

Our solution demonstrates a **clear motivation to disrupt the language assessment market** and methodology with an **adaptive, motivational, data-driven, evidence-based idea** based on interdisciplinary science. Most traditional English language tests **assess** strictly **academic capabilities**, the actual level of the participant's command of English is hard to establish. Our AELAT (Adaptive English Language Assessment Tool) offers **a solution for UK institutions, businesses and even individuals** for a more specific assessment of their English language skills. In the case of our AELAT, participants are solving problems in English with an increasing difficulty - similarly to Raven's Progressive Matrices - to demonstrate a good command of the language. As of currently, **no other adaptive language assessment tool exists for individual, academic or professional purposes**. The aim of this feasibility study is to help us as an innovative UK-based SME to increase our international **engagement in our respective target region**, the Visegrad Four (Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia). It will support us in looking to **establish or strengthen international research and innovation partnerships** or networks, and aid us to grow and scale up. For our foreign market entry, after careful consideration and analysis, we **selected the Visegrad Four** region as our first port of entry onto the EU market. The four countries make up a market of 80 million, but due to geographic distance from the UK, there are fewer business ties, while the appeal of **British soft power is strong**. More importantly, **English is less spoken** and the level is below the EU average, therefore the Visegrad Four offer a great **potential for internationalisation**. The feasibility study will allow us to **gather market intelligence** and **align evidence-based market entry** and sales strategies, while accumulating valuable insight for UK SMEs for a potential EU/Visegrad Four market entry, which **findings and lessons learned we intend to publicise in a dissemination event**. As a long-term impact, if our we can successfully enter new markets, we can play a role in **offering a gentle motivational factor** for foreign language study for professional purposes, particularly that of English, where traditional language exams failed due to the high stress factor involved.