What is ACTION?
Welcome to the ACTION Programme Website
ACTION is a 9-month programme for staff and student researchers to develop their entrepreneurial skills and develop solutions to real societal challenges.
During the ACTION programme, postgraduate research students and research staff engage within interdisciplinary teams to create a commercial product/service. The training element consists of a two-day residential followed by a series of 1-day workshops. This is supplemented by additional training elements at the request of the participants.
This website allows you to explore the programme and to keep up to date with the latest news on the progress of the project and it's participants.
Following the success of ACTION 2011: Sustainability, the ACTION team launched 2012's competiton:
ACTION 2012: Social Renewal (Engineering and Physical Sciences in support of Social Renewal).
You can view information from ACTION 2011: Sustainability by clicking the ACTION 2011 tab.
