Investment, inspiration and insight : KQ Liverpool in 2024
Our chief executive, Colin Sinclair, reflects on a seminal year for KQ Liverpool.
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KQ Liverpool awarded £1.1m to expand skills and outreach programme
KQ Liverpool has received funding from the Liverpool City Region Innovation Zone to boost its groundbreaking KQ Futures Programme.
KQ Liverpool welcomes hundreds of pupils to Careers Insight Week
KQ Liverpool’s Careers Insight Week welcomed pupils from 16 different schools.
“National Industrial Strategy must be a new government priority” – CEO Colin Sinclair
KQ Liverpool CEO Colin Sinclair says a National Industrial Strategy must be a key priority for the new government.
£500k awarded for research to combat bird flu
The Pandemic Institute has come together with The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI) and the Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) in Oxford, to award almost £500,000 for research on Avian Influenza, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Avian Influenza, […]
The Pandemic Institute to host Pint of Science event
The Pandemic Institute is taking part in the national Pints of Science initiative at pubs across Liverpool from 13 to 15 May 2024, including a special event hosted by Director Professor Tom Solomon CBE on 14 May at Leaf on Bold Street.
KQ Liverpool to embark on five-year city region skills programmes backed by Innovation Zone funding
KQ Liverpool is set to invest £1.26m, matched by funding from the city region’s Innovation Zone, to scale up its groundbreaking innovation skills and outreach programmes over the next five years. It will also bring forward new partnership programmes to target underprivileged communities and address issues around digital barriers, social mobility and access to opportunities […]
Sciontec doubles its vision for Liverpool’s HEMISPHERE lab development as Life Sciences Investment Zone prospectus is launched
The new programme will support the growing number of startups and spin-outs created within the KQ Liverpool innovation district.
Liverpool pupils blast off for special book reading
Liverpool schoolchildren were treated to a sneak preview of a new science and innovation story based here in the city. Pupils from LIPA Primary School listened intently as author Natalie Reeves-Billing read Animates Liverpool, a tale of a team of seven animal inventors who crash land in the Knowledge Quarter Liverpool innovation district and embark […]
New £1.5 million novel technologies initiative launches to accelerate new approaches to infection transmission
Companies and research groups with novel solutions to tackle infection transmission will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the UK’s infection response and bid for funding through a new initiative to stimulate innovation. The Infection Innovation Consortium: iiCON, a consortium led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been appointed by UK Research […]
