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PUBLIC SHOWCASE EVENT DETAILS:

ACTION 2012: Social Renewal was our 2012 project in which participants developed their solutions to challenges of social renewal.

 

RESEARCHERS WHO TOOK ACTION

 

ACTION 2012: SOCIAL RENEWAL SHOWCASE EVENT, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

Thre was a Public Showcase event on 8th November 2012 at the Great North Museum: Hancock

Thanks to everybody who came to support the final of the ACTION 2012: Social Renewal competition which was a showcase event where 5 teams of researchers displayed their commercial solution to the posed Societal Challenge.

We are delighted to announce the results of ACTION 2012: Social Renewal:

Winners: MOTAV

Runners up: BridgeBoard

People's Choice Award: Trailblazers

Congratulations to everyone who took part.

　

ACTION 2012: Social Renewal was launched in February 2012 by Prof. Gerry Docherty. It is a 9 month competition for early career researchers designed to promote enterprise and entrepreneurial training and the exploitation of research. The programme is one of a series of events linked to Newcastle University's Societal Challenge theme of Social Renewal. Five teams of researchers drawn from all across the University, have developed commercial solutions to their chosen Social Renewal challenge following a series of training events (See the Teams section)

At the Showcase final each team produced a trade stand displaying their business idea together with a prototype, video, model or other visual form of their　 solution. The competition was judged by an expert panel on both the quality of the team pitch and the strength of their trade stand. The winning team was awarded a prize to further develop themselves as entrepreneurial researchers.