The Bryden Centre for Advanced Marine and Bio-Energy Research

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland)

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Description (EN):

The Bryden Centre will create a ‘virtual centre of competence’ that will support industry-led applied/pre-commercial collaborative research on a cross-border, interregional basis that is focused on two specific forms of renewable energy, which are considered to have the greatest sustainable potential and widest applicability in the region: Marine renewable energy; and Bio-energy. The research undertaken will represent a considerable increase in scale and scope of activity over and above any existing research being undertaken, and is anticipated to generate impact and added value on a comparable basis. The eligible region has many geographic, economic and demographic characteristics that combined represent a unique opportunity for the development of renewable technologies and should provide a distinctive competitive advantage in a global marketplace. These include the tidal power sites at Strangford and the North Antrim Coast, the offshore wind activity in Western Scotland, the potential for wave power generation in Donegal, and the nascent anaerobic digestion industry driven by the regional agri-food industry and need for distributed energy. The combined region also has truly world leading research taking place within its research institutions. However, a number of challenges have prevented regional industry from fully capitalising on this opportunity. Foremost among these is the profile of the regional industry, with companies typically being small- or micro-sized enterprises. As is true for all industries, small enterprises in the renewables sector struggle to dedicate the resource needed to innovate. This is exacerbated by a lack of funding for research and innovation that would allow industry and research partners from across the region to collaborate on early-stage innovative concepts. In addition, there is a recognised gap between outcomes from existing research projects and commercialisation, ‘the valley of death’, that is indicative of industry and University partnerships not maximising the outputs of early stage collaborations. The final aspect of this is a lack of critical mass of highly-qualified scientists and engineers capable of translating research into commercial success within these companies. CAMBER aims to address these challenges. Using a Doctoral Training Centre model, the Bryden Centre project will recruit 34 PhD students and 6 PDRAs; each of whom will work with industry to produce industrially relevant research with the potential for commercial exploitation and resulting economic growth within the region.

Expected Results (EN): 1.1.1: The annual number of peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in two target sectors (Health and Life Sciences and Renewable energy) with cross-border authorship and with the potential to create economic impact.

Themes

Scientific cooperation Renewable energy

Specific Objective: To increase business and industry relevant research and innovation capacity across the region within two target sectors; Health and Life Sciences and Renewable Energy

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority: (01a) enhancing research and innovation (R&I) infrastructure and capacities to develop R&I excellence, and promoting centres of competence, in particular those of European interest

Partners

Lead Partner: QUB

Department: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Address: University Road, BT7 1NN Belfast, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: www.qub.ac.uk

Total budget: EUR 3 859 556.41

DCC

Name: DCC

Department: Local Enterprise Office (LEO)

Address: Enterprise Fund Business Centre, F92 HP64 Letterkenny, Ireland

Legal status: public

LYIT

Name: LYIT

Address: Port Road, F92 FC93 Letterkenny, Ireland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 2 690 444.75

Name: UU

Department: Centre for Sustainable Technologies

Address: Shore Road, BT37 0QB Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 310 648.54

UHI

Name: UHI

Department: Department of European and International Development, on behalf of the Marine and Environmental Science and Engineering Cluster (M&ESE)

Address: Ness Walk, IV3 5SQ Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 2 568 522.05

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Name: Dumfries and Galloway Council

Department: Economic Development

Address: Ashwood House, Sun Street, DG9 7JJ Stranraer, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

AFBI

Name: AFBI

Department: AFBI Innovations

Address: Newforge Lane, BT9 5PX Belfast, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 323 508.01

Summary

Project name (EN): The Bryden Centre for Advanced Marine and Bio-Energy Research

Project acronym: The Bryden Centre

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Website: https://www.seupb.eu/iva-overview

Project start date: 2017-06-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: ongoing

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 9 752 679.76

European Union funding: EUR 8 289 777.80

Co-financing sources: ERDF

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The Queen’s University of Belfast

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Donegal County Council

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Letterkenny Institute of Technology

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Ulster University

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University of Highlands and Islands

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Dumfries and Galloway Council

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The Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-09-15

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

32 / 32 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

174 / 200 (87%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Data of four projects (FASTER, ISIMPATHY, Sea Monitor and ONSIDE) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 15.09.2021. Specific objectives were derived from Thematic objectives. Regarding partners data only main partners is available.

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