Newcastle Science City is seconding Dr. Andrew Young, a senior figure from Newcastle University, to lead the project in a move that will strengthen developments in the city’s key areas of research.

Dr. Young, who heads the management support team for the University's Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE ), will take up the secondment as interim Director next month with a focus on science-based projects in sustainability, ageing and health, and regenerative medicine.

A team of academics and business experts have pooled their knowledge to provide the corporate world with a crucial health kick and create highly engaged, healthy workforces.

EIP Group has been developed by entrepreneur Neil Cameron, alongside academics from Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham universities to provide a new service aimed at improving the profitability and performance of companies by focusing on the health and wellbeing of their employees.

Thousands of university students and museum visitors are exploring their surroundings in a new way using their mobile phones thanks to the cutting edge technology of a North East company.

Just by holding up their phone and using it to look around them, mobile users can view information about their location on their smartphone screens including photos, videos, audio, 3D models and can even obtain directions on how to get to the place they are viewing.

Newcastle’s international relations have been boosted following visits from His Excellency Georg Boomgaarden, the German ambassador to the United Kingdom and from one of our twin cities, Nancy in France.

Each of the visits which took place this week gave the city the chance to showcase initiatives like Science City and the Ouseburn Valley Regeneration, discuss economic and cultural cooperation, develop closer ties with our universities and look at some of Newcastle’s European projects which include our city’s young people.