News and Announcements

  • Comment piece from Peter Arnold, CEO Newcastle Science City - July 2010
    Thursday 22nd July 2010

    Since our last update, the city region has received further unsettling economic news in the form of confirmation of One North East’s replacement, and a Budget that represents the tip of the spending cuts iceberg, ahead of autumn’s Comprehensive Spending Review.

  • Kromek Spotlight - An interview with Arnab Basu
    Thursday 22nd July 2010

    This month Arnab Basu, co-founder and CEO of Kromek, provides his view on the challenges ahead for the region’s science & technology sector.

    The overall science and technology sector in the UK is currently at a fatal crossroads – one that, in many ways, we may feel we have little control over, as critical decisions over R&D funding will be taken by politicians. We must now ask ourselves, how can we influence these decision-makers and what are the consequences of not doing so?

  • Newcastle Innovation Machine launches Adtronik
    Thursday 22nd July 2010

    June saw the launch of Adtronik, adding to the growing list of Newcastle Science City start-ups, born out of its Innovation Machine.  Adtronik specialises in online contextual advertising, and is one of the world’s first in-image advertising services.

  • Every1 Limited launches with NSC support
    Thursday 22nd July 2010

    A regional company specialising in interactive software to improve student inclusion launched last month, having received business development support from Newcastle Science City.

    Its first product, Every1Speaks, is an online platform for promoting student voice in schools, a topic high on the local authority education agenda. The product is designed to be visually stimulating, to help break down barriers between students and teachers, and communicate ideas and opinions more openly and effectively.

  • Newcastle University Charter for Changing Age

    Thursday 22nd July 2010

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    During June, Newcastle University’s Charter for Changing Age passed the 1,000 member mark, of which 31 are MPs.  Newcastle University has one of the largest academic institutes in the world studying ageing.  The aim of the Charter is to draw the UK’s, and other societies’, attention to the key issue of a rapidly ageing population and to challenge the negative attitudes around older people.  

  • One giant leap for Newcastle Science City
    Monday 12th July 2010

    For Millennia, man has looked into the night sky and wondered what is out there.

    For a lucky few that go into space it is an awe-inspiring, once-in-a-lifetime experience and something that is on most wish-lists, which explains why school children across the region have eagerly anticipated the visit from six of NASA’s astronauts.