The University of Plymouth and Kew Reach Ltd have agreed to collaborate on a range of projects helping communities and businesses across the world respond to accelerating changes in our global environment.
The two organisations each have extensive experience of using science and innovation to tackle many of the biggest challenges facing the planet and society.
Thanks to a new Memorandum of Understanding, they will now use their shared expertise to explore and promote new avenues of co-operation. The collaboration will be centred around large-scale restoration ecology, biodiversity gain, regenerative agriculture, urban ecosystems, and horticulture.
It will explore how advances in autonomy and environmental intelligence, and the greater understanding they generate, will lead to effective management and restoration of ecosystem services and landscapes.
The partners, both recognising the need to build national capacity in the environment, will also work together to enrich the experience of students in Plymouth and deliver improvements in training and capacity at Kew Reach, in particular bringing the business of ecological restoration into the academic syllabus.
The University’s work on the partnership is being driven through its
Faculty of Science and Engineering and
Centre of Research excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems (CRISPS) , which between them deliver a range of impact research and teaching in biology, conservation, and marine and environmental science.
Professor Richard Preziosi
