{"id":53209,"date":"2015-02-02T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6b1bbaafb46ee6d8c5feeb698b13ca2a"},"modified":"2015-02-02T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T10:40:50","slug":"news-story-business-contracts-to-reduce-motorcycle-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53209","title":{"rendered":"News story: Business contracts: to reduce motorcycle casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This SBRI (small business research initiative) competition is seeking innovative projects that could help reduce the number of motorcycle casualties and fatalities on Welsh roads.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"innovation-to-reduce-motorcycle-casualties-in-wales\">Innovation to reduce motorcycle casualties in Wales<\/h2>\n<p>If your business has an idea for an innovation, you could win a share of \u00a3510,000 in funding for the prototype development and demonstration of innovative technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is to develop an effective intervention or technological feature that provides demonstrable improvements in the safety of motorcyclists, by either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reducing the likelihood of a collision occurring <\/li>\n<li>lessening the impact of a collision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is now open<\/li>\n<li>there\u2019ll be a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/wales.business-events.org.uk\/en\/events\/briefing-event-innovation-competition-motorcyclist-casualties\/\">briefing event<\/a> on 18 February 2015 <\/li>\n<li>the deadline for registration is midday on 2 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for receipt of applications is midday on 9 March 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This competition is funded by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/wales.gov.uk\/\">Welsh Government<\/a> and Innovate UK, and jointly run with <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rospa.com\/\">RoSPA Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sbri.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/E809e7RZ5ZTz\/content\/reducing-motorcyclists-casualties-in-wales\/1524978?p_p_auth=xnjcJ3df\">Find out more about the \u2018Reducing motorcyclists\u2019 casualties in Wales\u2019 competition and apply for funding<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/case-studies\/energy-efficient-cooking-locooker-steams-ahead\">Read about how another business has benefited from SBRI support<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/funding-competitions\">See Innovate UK\u2019s current funding opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh government has launched a competition to try to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on Welsh roads.<\/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\/53209"}],"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=53209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}