Informational Database for Sustainable and Energy Efficient materials in sub-Saharan Africa Feb 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2019
The population in Africa is growing rapidly, and thus the urbanization is accelerated. The need for detailed information on the performance of materials is a crucial part of the decision-making process for contemporary building design. However, such... Read More about Informational Database for Sustainable and Energy Efficient materials in sub-Saharan Africa.

Circular design of emergency sheltering for Africa: a holistic approach Jul 1, 2018 - Jul 31, 2019
Africa is the continent with the highest number of displaced people due to wars, humanitarian crises, resource scarcity, and extreme climate events. Emergency sheltering always sets out with the best intention of being a temporary solution but, in mo... Read More about Circular design of emergency sheltering for Africa: a holistic approach.

CupClean - fast coffee cup cleaner Feb 11, 2019 - May 31, 2019
This project is to assist in the research of cleaning coffee cups to a standard acceptable for public use. The research will be used in the development of a product that can be installed in office spaces, which is the first target market.

The aim... Read More about CupClean - fast coffee cup cleaner.

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees Mar 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2024
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinary research—a shelter prototype called Makazi (winn... Read More about SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees.

Road to COP26 Innovation Grant Programme Nov 1, 2020 - Feb 28, 2022
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Crafting Futures Nepal (CFN) is a partnership between Edinburgh Napier University (Inge Panneels, Creative Informatics), Kathmandu University and Applied Arts Scotland (AAS), funded by the British Council. Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) ar... Read More about Road to COP26 Innovation Grant Programme.

Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2026
Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain

Texonomy Prize Challenge - British Council Researchers Link Climate Challenge Aug 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2022
The project is funded by British Council and led by Northumbria University at Newcastle. It is part of the "Researcher Link Climate Challenge" funding to establish links between early career researchers in the UK and Pakistan universities with the ai... Read More about Texonomy Prize Challenge - British Council Researchers Link Climate Challenge.

Failure to plan is planning to fail: An evidence informed approach to sustainable tourism planning May 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2024
A comparative analysis between Ireland and Scotland which examines the extent to which local authorities plan for sustainable tourism. This study uses mixed methods, both content analysis and interviews, to develop an evidence informed approach to po... Read More about Failure to plan is planning to fail: An evidence informed approach to sustainable tourism planning.

Restoring Environments, Societies, Ecosystems and Trees (RESET) Nov 24, 2021 - Feb 28, 2023
Africa is due to experience the most rapid urbanisation and population growth in this century. The combination of these phenomena in other countries has led to two dire outcomes: enormous loss of ecosystems, biodiversity and natural land (i) and Giga... Read More about Restoring Environments, Societies, Ecosystems and Trees (RESET).

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.

IoT products are becoming the default,... Read More about Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT.

In Our Hands Jul 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023
Following on from last year's Road to COP26 Innovation Programme with British Council Nepal, Kathmandu University and applied Arts Scotland, a revised version is planned for 2022 and the invitation to contribute to the Innovation programme with fundi... Read More about In Our Hands.

Photosynethics: Responsibility, Sustainability and Plant Work in Professional Kitchens Apr 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2023
Photosynethics: Responsibility, Sustainability and Plant Work in Professional Kitchens

In Our Hands II Aug 4, 2023 - Apr 30, 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to develop a stronger understanding of their contribut... Read More about In Our Hands II.

Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
Over thousands of Medicinal Chemistry research groups around the world across academia, research-based institutions are involved in synthesizing libraries of compounds in the early drug discovery phase. During this synthetic process, massive amount o... Read More about Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint.