Open competition to design an automobile seat - Prizes, The global winner gets 6000euros, Two regional winners get 3000Euros

Chemical Company BASF has opened a global car seat design competition in collaboration with several automobile manufacturers. The contest is open to anyone interested in automotive design.  This opportunity invites you to imagine and design your ideas for the automobile seat of the future, using BASF materials in an innovative way.

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Strathclyde picks up coveted title on awards night-The University of Strathclyde has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2012.

First in Industry and Applied Research - True to it's motto "A place of useful learning"

Strathclyde picks up coveted title on awards night

The Glasgow institution picked up the coveted title at a ceremony held in London yesterday evening attended by more than 1,000 staff from universities and colleges across the UK.

Judges in the awards were impressed with how Strathclyde’s dedication to working with industry had taken shape over the past year with a series of groundbreaking initiatives.

Its "transformational year" saw the technological institution invest almost £90 million in a Technology and Innovation Centre to unite academia and industry.

The university also established the UK's first Fraunhofer Institute – Europe's largest research contract organisation – through the creation of a Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics.

As well as doubling its research income from business and industry to £6.2 million, Strathclyde was also selected as the exclusive European partner for South Korea's global research and commercialisation programme.

John Gill, editor of Times Higher Education, said the institution's focus on "really meaningful" partnerships with industry "had come together in an impressive way in the past 12 months, and the judges were clear that it was a worthy winner".

Institute magazine reporter wins Writer of the Year Award | IOM3: The Global Network for Materials, Minerals & Mining Professionals

Institute magazine reporter wins Writer of the Year Award | IOM3: The Global Network for Materials, Minerals & Mining Professionals

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