Disaster-Resilience Workshop Robin Williamson 18 Mar 2015

Introducing The Knowledge Transfer network — KTN is the UK’s innovation network. It brings together businesses, entrepreneurs, academics and funders to develop new products, processes and services — We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s lives by capturing maximum value from innovative ideas, scientific research and creativity What we do

Chris Warkup CEO We are eliminating silos to make it easier to assemble multi- disciplinary teams so that we can do more, and do it well. David Lockwood Chair The “half-life of knowledge” is shortening, so we must connect business with research faster than ever before. 16 Industry communities Core thematic networks covering key application areas and underpinning technologies 60,000+ Members An engaged online community of innovators served by a single platform 20 Cross-sector groups Interdisciplinary programmes building communities around priority challenges 15,000+ Delegates per year Hundreds of events bringing people together ‘to make magic happen’ Addressing societal challenges and growing new technologies

Business programmes —Sustainability —Design — Horizon 2020 — International —Access to funding & finance Clustered communities, groups and business programmes

— 10:30 Welcome and Introduction — 10:40 Introducing H2020 Disaster-Resilience (DRS) — 11:00 UK Home Office perspective — 11:20 DRS, the business perspective — 11:40 Coffee/Networking — 12:00 NGO perspective and case studies — 12:40 SURVEILLE advisory service and case study — 13:00 Lunch and networking Agenda – morning See handout for more details

— 14:00 End-user perspective — 14:20 Inside the assessment process — 14:40 Workshop 1 – putting in a proposal — 15:20 Coffee/Networking — 15:30 Workshop 2 – group discussions on the DRS themes and specific calls — 16:30 close Agenda – afternoon See handout for more details

1. Constructing a consortium What makes a good consortium? Where do you find partners? What makes a good partner? 2. Writing the proposal Role of Co-ordinator Role of Partners How do you construct Work Packages? 3. The reality of putting in a proposal Time you need to devote to it Financial Costs What are the benefits of the Process - are there any beyond getting the money? If you have done it before - what were the lessons learned? Workshop 1 Putting together a proposal

— 5 DRS themes — Post it notes on flip charts — What does your organisation do? — What is your proposal idea? — What services can you offer? — What are you looking for in a partner/collaboration? Workshop 2 Group discussions on specific DRS themes

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