On Thursday 27th July at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, ESF funded project KESS 2 presented awards to three competition winners during an engaging evening of live Presentations and an exhibition of Research Images, titled ‘Making Waves’. The event, attended by students, companies and academics, showcased just some of the ongoing EU funded research… Read more »
In honour of Europe Day on 9th May 2017, the KESS 2 team at Cardiff University hosted a successful social event at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). The KESS 2 programme is funded by European Social Funds (ESF) and the event brought together participating students and academics for a lunchtime of networking… Read more »
Funding from the European Social Fund (ESF), accessed through KESS 2, enables students to undertake higher-level research study in Wales across a variety of projects in collaboration with company partners. On 9th May 2017, our KESS 2 students celebrated Europe Day by sharing with us a #EuropeDaySelfie and told us a little bit more about how EU funds have… Read more »
Bangor Sustainability Week 2017 will be hosted from 02.05.17 until 04.05.17 by KESS 2 partners, The Sustainability Lab at Bangor University . A series of events will be held throughout the week, see the poster below or visit The Sustainability Lab website for further details about how you can get involved! Find out more about KESS 2’s… Read more »
KESS 2 company partner Halen Môn is to receive The Queen’s Award for Enterprise thanks to their continuous commitment to sustainable growth and the environment. Her Majesty announced the awards on her birthday (April 21st), these awards are given on the recommendation of the Prime Minister and the Queen’s Awards Assessment Team. Halen Môn are… Read more »
The KESS 2 website was launched during a presentation evening in the Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre in Bangor on 4th April 2017. The new website will give easy-access to key information about the KESS 2 programme, host a library of KESS 2 project case studies, feature the latest available scholarships and be a home… Read more »
KESS 2 is proud to feature in a new collection of case studies highlighting the value to the Welsh economy of research and development activity in universities in Wales. The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) publication Innovation Nation, which was launched at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on 30th March 2017, is the… Read more »
On Sunday, 12th March 2017, KESS 2 PhD student Pip Jones (Bangor University) and her ‘Electric Weather Sheep’ featured on the BBC agricultural show Countryfile as part of a programme looking back on farming methods in Snowdonia over the past 60 years. The KESS 2 funded project, which is supported by European Social Funds (ESF),… Read more »
Former KESS PhD student, Dr Iliana Bista, has published her latest research in the prestigious ‘Nature Communications’ with studies focusing on environmental DNA at Llyn Padarn in Snowdonia National Park. Read the full story on Bangor University’s news page here: www.bangor.ac.uk/biology/news/
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