{"id":81806,"date":"2017-06-22T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d33642d0d69c1ac047e69bcdbce530ff"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:37:18","slug":"news-story-accelerator-face-to-face-meetings-20-july-2017-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81806","title":{"rendered":"News story: Accelerator face-to-face meetings: 20 July 2017 in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/accelerator-face-to-face-meetings-cambridge-registration-35589969557\">Registration is now open and closes on 13 July 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 (Dstl)<\/a> 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=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_3167\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Defence and Security Accelerator<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">GO1<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBuilding 5<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPorton Down<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">Salisbury<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"region\">Wiltshire<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SP4 0JQ<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:accelerator@dstl.gov.uk\">accelerator@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone <\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704236\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity to book a meeting with the Accelerator in Cambridge on 20 July 2017 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\/81806"}],"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=81806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}