{"id":50621,"date":"2014-11-24T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ef567c6a77d410f22811649a4a45419d"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:30:13","slug":"news-story-7-5-million-in-funding-to-support-urban-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50621","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a37.5 million in funding to support urban living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK is investing up to \u00a37.5 million in research and development projects and feasibility studies to develop data sets which can transform local services in towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses and academia will work together on a specific urban challenge in areas such as transport, health, energy, built environment, water, financial services.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to improve existing services or to develop new ones, by combining environmental, social or economic data with other information.<\/p>\n<p>Projects must be collaborative and business-led and include a likely end-user and a small business as consortium partners.<\/p>\n<p>This competition opens for applicants on 8 December 2014. It is being co-funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about solving urban challenges with data by going to <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/solving-urban-challenges-with-data-collaborative-r-d\">collaborative R&amp;D competition<\/a> or <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/solving-urban-challenges-with-data-feasibility-study\">feasibility studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities for businesses to help local councils and communities improve quality of life in urban areas through innovative use of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}