For the Provision of Workshops, Lectures and Facilitation on Eco-innovation Cumbria - AWARD

Eco-innovation Cumbria is an ERDF funded 4-year programme to help SMEs improve efficiency, grow capacity and develop new solutions for industry.

Eco-innovation Cumbria will help SMEs to increase innovation in low carbon technologies and encourage their adoption. Through research and innovation and the development of higher level skills, it will enable businesses to grow capability in developing new products and markets thereby enhancing the growth of the low carbon and environmental goods sector within Cumbria.

Eco-innovation Cumbria will provide a variety of free workshops and events around Cumbria to explore innovation challenges. It will also develop collaborative research projects between the University, its partners and SMEs.

The project is led by the University of Cumbria (UoC), with partners Lancaster University (LU) and The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). All events will take place within Cumbria and the majority will be at UoC sites.

The programme has a full time project manager who will oversee UoC activity and act as the key point of contact for partner universities, beneficiary clients and the successful tenderer. Roles and responsibilities are set out in Section E, including the requirements of the successful contractor.