University of Exeter

**PROBLEM:** The maritime sector stands at the cusp of a profound energy transition, facing critical decisions on environmentally effective and operationally feasible decarbonisation: research suggests that **70% of ports are already at or near to their ceiling in terms of available power**.\[1\] One key challenge is requirements to decarbonise port-owned...

**Project** **HydroPort** demonstrates how South-West ports can switch to renewable energy, and cheaply produce green fuels onsite. We are developing innovative **SeaStack** technology -the first electrolyser designed for maritime and offshore use. To achieve these ambitions we are working with local ports, companies and universities, and supported by Dor...

Ocean data is crucial for informing long-term economic policies that can balance a burgeoning blue economy with environmental sustainability. But physical, biological, logistical, technical and economic challenges all make gathering and transmitting ocean data difficult. Establishing baseline data is essential in order to measure and track natural resourc...

The WaterWise Excellence Hub is a vibrant, action-oriented initiative that aspires to serve as a catalyst for R&I (creation and uptake), business development, and knowledge dissemination for water in the circular economy (CE). It leverages CE principles to rethink and transform water management in Romania, Greece and selected Western Balkans and Eastern P...

The U.K. currently has ambitious targets around woodland creation, agricultural decarbonization and biodiversity. Project developers, land agents and investors within woodland creation, agroforestry and biodiversity net gain are struggling to effectively engage customers and key stakeholders at point of sale, for breaking down cultural barriers as well as...

Assuring environmental compliance requires a strong network of stakeholders, from citizens and researchers to governments and environmental organisations. Through creative toolkits and protocols, ENFORCE aims to tackle the frequent mismatch between the environmental data gathered by citizens and what authorities require for enforcement purposes. The proje...

Identified in the Government's Critical Mineral Strategy, Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are vital to the UK's electrification ambitions, forming a critical part of the technology for EV motors and wind turbines. However, their extraction and production often have negative environmental impacts and the UK is currently reliant on China for their supply. Altili...

The Strontium Alternative Magnet Innovation Consortium (SrAMIC) will investigate the potential for a UK domestic circular supply chain for high strength strontium ferrite magnets (also known as ceramic magnets) as an alternative to, or to complement, the rare earth permanent magnets used in electric traction motors and in renewable power generation. Hard ...

This project is a building on and adding to our successful Energy Catalyst R8 early-stage project, demonstrating good feasibility of the proposed concepts in enhancing the efficiency of onshore wave energy converters (WECs) and developing advanced wave-powered microgrids (WPMG) in the selected remote islands of Thailand with limited or no grid access whic...

IDEATION (InlanD watErs in the digitAl Twin OceaN) aims to prepare the development of the digital twin of the inland waters (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, snow, and ice) addressing activities to be developed and to make it integrated and interoperable with the DTO for a unified digital twin of ocean and waters (addressing the hydrosphere as a whole...

This proposal launches an innovative blood test as a solution to the growing challenge of urgent cancer referrals and early diagnosis. Developed in partnership with the NHS in West Yorkshire since 2017, the test is designed for multiple pathways, but this project focuses on Lower Gastrointestinal (Lower GI) cancers, such as Bowel. Bowel cancer is the four...

Our vision in this project is to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline and optimize the creation of multi-modal transport models. By combining City Science's expertise in transport models and AI processes with cutting-edge techniques from the University of Exeter, a novel, end-to-end, AI-driven process will be developed, offerin...