New Centre for Doctoral Training launched to nurture next generation of net zero leaders

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Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of the CDT-GIF, with IDRIC colleagues - Credit: IDRIC
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Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of the CDT-GIF, with IDRIC colleagues - Credit: IDRIC

New £18m Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures backed by Heriot-Watt University, Imperial College London, and universities of Bath and Sheffield

A major new Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF) has been unveiled to help create the post-graduate talent and innovation pipeline needed to cement the UK's position at the...

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