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News & Updates
News & Updates
LCR 4.0 Supports Almost 200 SMEs and Creates Over 20 Jobs
Business support programme LCR 4.0 has helped 197 SMEs in the manufacturing space and created over 22 new high-value jobs across Liverpool City Region, since launching two years ago.
Government Urged to Prioritise Place-Based-Investment to Increase National Productivity
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool has joined with leading innovation districts from across the UK to urge the government to channel investment into mature and growing innovation districts.
Accor Hotels set for Paddington Village
Liverpool City Council has announced it has selected Accor Hotels for a joint Novotel hotel and aparthotel for its £1bn Paddington Village scheme.
Liverpool start-up uses Industry 4.0 technology to create customisable eco-coffins
Liverpool start-up Koffin is tackling rising funeral costs by using advanced material testing and 3D printing technology to help create its first batch of customisable eco-coffins.
PPI Announces Rutherford Diagnostics HQ in Liverpool
Medical innovation in the UK was given a significant boost today with the announcement that an advanced diagnostics centre is to be built in Liverpool.
Ground Breaking Celebrations for RCP's new Liverpool Home
Work has begun on The Spine - the Royal College of Physicians’ new £35m northern headquarters in Liverpool - with a ceremony to mark the breaking of the ground upon which it will be built.
£5m boost for University’s Digital Innovation Factory
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has agreed to provide £5 million funding, from its Single Investment Fund, for a new University development that could create more than 400 jobs.
Sensor city welcomes raft of new tenants as industry 4.0 race hots up
Technical innovation centre, Sensor City, is working towards making Liverpool City Region the go-to location for Industry 4.0 technologies with a host of new tenants.
‘On top of the world’ at Kaplan in Paddington Village
Sheryl Moore, CSR Manager at Kier Construction Northern, met with the crane drivers working on the Liverpool International College development, to find out why they love their jobs in the sky.
Meet Sandy the Seagull, Paddington’s first resident
Sandy the Seagull has become Paddington’s first official resident, making her home amidst our live construction site.
Keeping Kensington Fields tidy
The Morgan Sindall team has been helping to keep the local area clean and tidy by supporting the Kensington Fields Environmental Group (K.F.E.G).
Apprentice Mark Sloane joins the Paddington team
After a 10 week work experience placement with Morgan Sindall, Mark made such a good impression that he has now begun a full time apprenticeship.
Liverpool in New York
A Liverpool City Region delegation heads to the US this week on a mission with the dual aim of attracting inward investment and boosting tourism.
Interim Chief Executive Appointment for new development company
Following a formal recruitment process, Colin Sinclair, CEO of Knowledge Quarter Liverpool (KQ Liverpool), has taken up the dual role of Interim CEO of the newly formed Knowledge Quarter Development Company.
Mount Vernon Green(er!)
Our site team have donated and helped to plant nine new trees in the local Mount Vernon Green community park.
Team appointed to shape gateway masterplan for £2bn scheme
Liverpool City Council has appointed a “super team” of planning experts to develop a masterplan for the Knowledge Quarter Gateway site to a £2bn flagship regeneration
Taking Liverpool’s knowledge economy stateside
Colin Sinclair talks about an upcoming trip to the US and the importance of getting out and seeing best practice from other cities.
Maths boost for region as University of Liverpool to open specialist maths college
The University of Liverpool has received approval from the Department of Education to establish a specialist maths college which will provide world-leading maths education for young people from all backgrounds who have a passion for mathematics.
Never accepting ‘the norm’
Colin Sinclair looks back on the huge progress made in the Knowledge Quarter in recent years and discusses the exciting developments which are transforming the face of Liverpool.
Board game developed aims to improve the public’s understanding of life of licence
Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence has been co-created by criminologists at LJMU, FACT, artist Hwa Young Jung and a group of men who are on probation in Merseyside with the aim of changing public attitudes towards offenders.