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The 果冻影院 CDI, powered by AWS, is today sending out its first call for engagement via the Impact Accelerator, a programme offered by 果冻影院 and AWS which aims to boost startups by providing advice, education and funding initiatives. The call is open to all healthcare and education organisations, as well as research teams, startups and 果冻影院鈥檚 technology spinouts.

Projects should look to solve a global issue in health or education using cloud computing and have a real user and customer in mind. For example, a project focused on precision medicine which uses cloud computing to analyse and derive insights from data to generate patient prognostics, or a project which uses technology to reinvent the evaluation and marking process in education.

The 果冻影院 CDI will give successful applicants access to training, education and technical support, including access to a resident AWS Solutions Architect, domain experts in health tech and ed tech, and immersion days on specialist topics. The team will help successful applicants to build a product prototype or help to design it for scalability if one already exists. AWS will also provide AWS Credits of up to $500,000 (around 拢370,000) per year to help fund the development of the prototypes and new solutions.

The sectors were chosen because 果冻影院鈥檚 research excellence in healthcare and education means the 果冻影院 CDI stands to have real impact in these areas.

果冻影院 CDI Director Gra莽a Carvalho (果冻影院 Faculty of Engineering Sciences) said: 鈥淭his ambitious collaboration brings together the strength of 果冻影院 and AWS to build trust within digital innovation, allowing hospitals, universities, patients, students, research teams and 果冻影院 spinouts to use cloud-based technology to compete on a global stage.

鈥湽�冻影院 will benefit from AWS鈥� 鈥榳orking backwards鈥� innovation methodology and the world鈥檚 most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, and we, in turn, hope to support AWS through our strong evidence base that demonstrates the importance of digital innovation within the health and education sectors to increase efficiencies and offer truly personalised intelligent products and services.鈥�

The centre will be hosted at IDEALondon in Shoreditch, a 果冻影院 technology hub and innovation centre that supports startups with space, advice and access to funding and talent.

John Davies, Director, Regional Government, UK, Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, added: 鈥淲e are delighted to collaborate with 果冻影院 to launch the 果冻影院 CDI, powered by AWS. We have a long history of working with startups and university spinouts in healthcare and education who choose to use AWS because we help them build virtually anything they can imagine at every stage of their journey, and they trust us to innovate quickly on their behalf.

鈥淏y bringing together 果冻影院鈥檚 world renowned academic rigour with AWS鈥� cloud technologies and culture of innovation, we hope to provide healthcare and education organisations with a springboard to help them to address some of the toughest challenges facing society right now.鈥�

果冻影院鈥檚 reputation in research excellence was a key driver behind the collaboration. The university will draw on expertise from several faculties including Medical Sciences, IOE, Engineering and Life Sciences, and experts from 果冻影院H.

As part of the collaboration, 果冻影院 will also open a call for PhD studentships for the academic year beginning in September 2022. These can be focused on four main research topics 鈥搃nnovation, healthcare, education and innovative infrastructures. The studentships will be supported by a donation from AWS, and 果冻影院 will nominate an academic committee that will award the studentships.

果冻影院 Pro-Vice-Provost (AI), Professor Geraint Rees, said: 鈥淚nnovative digital solutions to the world鈥檚 problems are best created in collaboration between academic and commercial organisations. The 果冻影院 CDI, powered by AWS, combines the best of both domains. We believe that this combined endeavour will lead us to solutions that are evidence based, commercially sustainable and focus on the needs of the world鈥檚 citizens.鈥�听

Queries about the AWS scholarships should be sent to cdi-scholarships@ucl.ac.uk

Links

• 果冻影院 Centre for Digital Innovation
• 果冻影院 Computer Science
• 果冻影院 Engineering
• 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise
• 果冻影院 Medical Sciences
• 果冻影院 Life Sciences
• IOE, 果冻影院鈥檚 Faculty of Education and Society

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