UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced a £72 million investment in new infrastructure projects.
The funding will provide world-class facilities and equipment to help maintain the UK’s position as a science superpower in line with the ambitions set out in the government’s Science and Technology Framework.
Funding includes:
- £23 million for 11 individual wind tunnels, an experimental database and upgrades to existing facilities across the UK’s National Wind Tunnel Facility network
- a new £34 million digital infrastructure for sharing and reuse of biological and biomedical science data
- £6.8 million to scope a second-generation instrumentation suite for the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope
- an £8 million investment in the conceptual design of new technologies for next-generation gravitational wave infrastructure
