Sustainability Hub: Low Carbon Devon

Sustainability Hub

The Sustainability Hub is a refurbished building that provides a physical space where businesses, social enterprises and community groups can mix with researchers and students around the issue of sustainability.

For further information on how you can use the building, visit the Sustainability Hub webpage.

Carbon Reduction Project

The Low Carbon Devon project brings significant energy savings through delivering an LED lighting retrofit programme in four University buildings. Within one of these buildings the Low Carbon Devon project is trailing an innovative energy efficiency technology. The results of the trial will be disseminated, along with other energy efficiency approaches that have been demonstrated at the University.

If you are interested in finding out more about energy efficiency - please fill out the expression of interest questionnaire.

Research and Innovation

The Sustainability Hub is also going to be a living lab – a place where we can research and test low carbon solutions. Four industrial research fellows will be employed in Spring/Summer 2020 to carry out research, hold training events and bring together enterprises operating in the green wall sector, power electronics (PV & LEDs), the creative industry sector, and behaviour change. 

We also have 10 small grants for short research projects with Devon enterprises that are developing new low carbon products/processes.

If you have projects that could benefit from collaborating with University of Plymouth researchers – please fill out the expression of interest questionnaire.

Knowledge Exchange

Events - We will be holding various events during the project. These events will be about supporting the low carbon sector in Devon, supporting enterprises from any sector to shift to low carbon and also supporting enterprises to engage with the University of Plymouth around the low-carbon agenda.

Low Carbon Internships – We will have a number of short internships (one to three months) for students and recent graduates from across the Institute. This could be from science, engineering, arts, humanities, health and business.

If you have ideas about events/training that might be useful to enterprises in Devon, or a short low carbon research project (one to three months) that one of our students or recent graduates could carry out - please fill out the expression of interest questionnaire.