University of Exeter
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University of Exeter’s strengths
EarthScale partners play a vital role in unlocking regional strengths and climate innovation opportunities across the UK. The University of Exeter is one of six regional hubs, offering ventures access to its in-house expertise, specialist facilities, and local innovation ecosystem.
Each hub is supported by a dedicated manager who coordinates tailored support and engagement activities. Explore the University of Exeter’s strengths below.
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Background
The University of Exeter has developed expertise in areas such as ocean carbon capture, carbon storage through ecological restoration, the circular economy, food systems/Agri-tech and whole of life/systems thinking.
In addition to being strengths of the University of Exeter, these areas are areas of deep expertise within the Southwest region.
The university also has various facilities in areas such as bioimaging, cytomics, and testing in marine environments.
With a track record of supporting climate-related businesses, the University of Exeter is well-placed to support organisations to accelerate and thrive in the green economy.
Established partnerships and facilities
The University of Exeter has a strong network of partnerships, networks, collaborations and facilities that support its climate-focused work, including:
Creating environmental solutions with the Met Office
The University of Exeter has worked with the Met Office for many years to develop weather and climate prediction models.
The University is part of the Met Office’s Academic Partnership (MOAP), which draws together world-class expertise around a focused programme of joint research to tackle key challenges in weather and climate science and prediction.
Managing biodiversity and landscape change with the National Trust
The University of Exeter and the National Trust launched their five-year strategic partnership in May 2021, focusing on protecting landscapes so people and nature can thrive. In the context of rapid environmental change, declining biodiversity, and widespread political and economic uncertainty, the partnership focuses on problems that cannot be solved by practitioners or academics alone.
SeaCURE
The components of a marine-based Negative Emissions Technology (NET), with the potential to be applied on a very large scale. SeaCURE is a collaboration between world-leading academic experts (in ocean carbon and climate monitoring and modelling, green infrastructure, life cycle analysis and marine law) and engineering and technology-focused SMEs with expertise in carbon removal, water processing and plant design and build.
Outside of these examples, the University of Exeter has a wealth of expertise in various other climate related disciplines such as LCA, dynamic marine testing facilities, Critical Minerals (e.g. Lithium) and Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW).
Local innovation ecosystem
As the Southwest regional lead partner for EarthScale, the University of Exeter has a strong understanding of the local innovation ecosystem. This includes being one of six leading research-led universities in the SETSquared partnership, the founders of the Women in Climate network, and successfully directing significant amounts of European investment toward Innovation in the region.
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University of Exeter
Home to 1500 climate and sustainability experts across 34 specialist environmental institutes and centres of excellence.
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