UKRI Designed for Ageing Partnering Event

Organised and hosted by Health Innovation Manchester, this session aims to connect innovators and businesses with key stakeholders in GM and create partnerships to support funding opportunities, including the upcoming UKRI Designed for Ageing funding call.

The UKRI Designed for Ageing competition, which opens in September, is aimed at service-led organisations addressing issues around sustaining physical activity, independent living and managing the common complaints of ageing.

Business-led applications should have a person-centred design approach and must have potential to be shaped for market readiness by a series of design

stage gates.

Additional bespoke support may be available to Greater Manchester and Cheshire East Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that wish to collaborate with stakeholders in the GM ecosystem.

By attending this event, you will gain a better understanding of the opportunities available to partner with key organisations in GM and the funding calls which can assist in progressing your innovations.

To introduce the specific strengths in GM, we will be welcoming some expert guest speakers that will focus on how to incorporate Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) and Product Design principles into the funding application and what they could offer as a partner. We will also be welcoming expressions of interest from SMEs and innovators that are looking for partners to apply to the funding round.

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y9mdsPO8TBS5Ncy_tuwKvw

Agenda:

12:30-12:40

Welcome and introduction

Sig Mikladal, Senior Programme Development Lead, Health Innovation Manchester

12:40-12:50

Introduction to the Designed for Ageing competition

Julia Glenn, Design Innovation Lead – Healthy Ageing, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, UKRI

12:50 – 13:00

Funding opportunities and Consortia Building

Sarwat Howe, ERDF Academic Partnerships Manager, Health Innovation Manchester

13:00-13:20

Public Engagement

Nicky Timmis, Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Manager, Health Innovation Manchester

Pat Walkington, Public and Community Involvement and Engagement (PCIE) Panel Member

13:20-13:40

Product Design

Kristina Niedderer, Professor of Design, Manchester School of Art

13:40-14:00

Q&A and Expressions of Interest

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y9mdsPO8TBS5Ncy_tuwKvw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.