{"id":80279,"date":"2017-03-31T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=962f0b2a5420ca17066efe227c4dd6c6"},"modified":"2017-03-31T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:31:58","slug":"news-story-accelerator-face-to-face-meetings-3-may-2017-in-newport-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80279","title":{"rendered":"News story: Accelerator face-to-face meetings: 3 May 2017 in Newport, Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/accelerator-enduring-challenge-face-to-face-meetings-newport-wales-registration-33332837414\">Book an Accelerator meeting at Innovation Point, Newport on 3 May 2017.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>These 30-minute face-to-face meetings give you the opportunity to discuss your innovative research idea with Accelerator staff in private.<\/p>\n<p>The Accelerator funds innovative proof-of-concept research that could lead to a cost-effective capability advantage for UK armed forces and national security. This is through the enduring competition or specific themed competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Before you come to your meeting please prepare by thinking about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what is your research idea?<\/li>\n<li>what do you think is the military benefit?<\/li>\n<li>will it save time\/costs, improve capability\/performance\/reliability?<\/li>\n<li>why should MOD invest in this work?<\/li>\n<li>what will your approach be?<\/li>\n<li>how will you structure your research?<\/li>\n<li>what will you deliver?<\/li>\n<li>what evidence will you produce?<\/li>\n<li>what will the impact of your research be?<\/li>\n<li>how will you demonstrate progress towards the claimed benefit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main purpose of this meeting is for you to ask questions, and most importantly, receive advice from the team, so please leave time for this during your 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Spaces will be on a first-come, first-served basis and an organisation should only register once. The Accelerator is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory\">Defence Science and Technology Laboratory<\/a> (Dstl) and only funds novel, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research.<\/p>\n<p>If your proposal is a product that is already used in the defence and security market, you should speak to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/ministry-of-defence\/about\/procurement#contact-us-for-advice-and-guidance-about-selling-to-the-mod\">Defence Suppliers Service<\/a>, or see other ways of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/how-to-sell-to-dstl-industry-academia-and-other-research-organisations\">how to sell to Dstl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Accelerator team hold regular regional meetings. Join our <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups\/8585186\">Accelerator LinkedIn group<\/a> for notification of future meetings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"address\">\n<div class=\"adr org fn\">\n<p>Defence and Security Accelerator<br \/>\n<br \/>Building R103<br \/>\n<br \/>Fermi Avenue<br \/>\n<br \/>Harwell Oxford<br \/>\n<br \/>Oxfordshire<br \/>\n<br \/>OX11 0QX<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Email <a href=\"mailto:accelerator@dstl.gov.uk\">accelerator@dstl.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telephone +44 (0)30 67704236<\/p>\n<p>Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity to book a meeting with Defence and Security Accelerator (Accelerator) in Newport, Wales to discuss your research idea.<\/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\/80279"}],"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=80279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}