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End of First Year Review Professor David Butler Principal Investigator, Bridging the Gaps 25 th October 2011. Aims of today. To hear about activities and projects funded through BTG in its first year To discuss the benefits and challenges of working across disciplines - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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End of First Year ReviewProfessor David Butler
Principal Investigator, Bridging the Gaps
25th October 2011
To hear about activities and projects funded through BTG in its first year
To discuss the benefits and challenges of working across disciplines
To share best practice
To identify ways to improve the project
Aims of today
14.10 First panel session15.00 Second panel session15.50 Reflections on cross-disciplinary
working (Myra Strober)16.05 Afternoon tea and move to Business
School16.30 Keynote talk (Myra Strober) and
reception
Agenda
The Exeter Science Exchange
Communication (Jonathan Barry)
Policy(Regenia Gagnier)
Development (Peter Ashwin)
Innovation(John Bessant)
Official launch on 18th Jan 2011
BTG Events – 20 so far
Including:
• Two College ‘showcases’
• Two ‘sandpits’
• Energy@Exeter & Water@Exeter
• Seminars for BTG-funded projects
• Workshops for new cross-disciplinary groups
Development FundFirst round: 20 applications; 13 funded
Second round: 17 applications (including 8 from Synthetic Biology Sandpit); 10 funded
Three projects from CCSF Sandpit
Third round: 19 applications, Panel meeting 4th Nov
Co-funding from RKT and Colleges
What’s next?First seminar for Valuing Wildness in Animals
Project: Elephants – 27th Oct
CLES Showcase – 25th Nov
ExIStA (Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its
Applications) launch – 28th Nov
www.exeter.ac.uk/btg/newsandevents/
