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UCL has joined forces with Amazon Web Services to speed up innovations in healthcare and education through the UCL Centre for Digital Innovation (CDI).

The UCL CDI brings together the expertise of both organisations, with the aim of making research more useable, and accelerating transformative innovation.

The centre is AWS鈥檚 first cloud innovation centre in the UK. It supports academics and entrepreneurs to create solutions built using research outputs which address pressing global challenges.

UCL and AWS achieve this through:

• a series of programmes, including a 12-week impact accelerator
• doctoral scholarships
• workshops and trainings addressing the challenges and opportunities in digital innovation
• a meet-up space for like-minded researchers to collaborate

With a particular focus on solving global problems in healthcare and education, the research spans wide-ranging applications. Supported projects range from new algorithms to diagnose diseases more effectively, to cloud-based platforms that rapidly collect data to fast-track educational studies.

CDI Director Graca Carvalho says: 鈥淎听large number听of our academic entrepreneurs were already using AWS platforms for their ventures, so there was a clear overlap for us to collaborate on creating this centre

鈥淯CL academics and students can now access mentorship through the centre to design their research using the most advanced cloud, AI and machine learning technologies. We鈥檝e set up programmes that have accelerated the startup journey, which means ventures can now achieve in 12 weeks what it used to take them six to 12 months to do.鈥�

In its first two years, the centre has supported 19听startups or spinouts, helped 24 PhD researchers with scholarships, and supported over 拢8.5 million of research grant applications.听

UCL鈥檚 partnership with AWS has been supported by UCL Innovation & Enterprise, who鈥檝e helped build the centre鈥檚 innovation ecosystem and helped them access Higher Education Innovation Funding.

UCL and AWS are continuing to collaborate on the centre and are now exploring new and bigger ways of working together, including opportunities to collaborate globally.

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Find out more about:

• how UCL is transforming lives through collaboration and knowledge exchange
• UCL Centre for Digital Innovation
• Dilshan Arawwawala, Founder, ShiftPartner; Participant, UCL Centre for Digital Innovation Impact Accelerator programme
• Support for academics: partner with external organisations
• Support for businesses: developing a partnership with UCL

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