

Royce's collaborative model is crucial to developing an ecosystem which ensures the transfer of ground-breaking ideas into solutions for priority areas in the UK – from meeting our net zero commitments, to living longer and healthier lives.
Dr Ania Jolly | Head of Research and Business Engagement
Major Programmes
Learn more about our key collaboration projectsCEAMS
The Centre of Expertise in Advanced Materials and Sustainability (CEAMS) is a state-of-the-art centre that will target the commercialisation of materials-related sustainable developments. Through its collaborative network of partners, CEAMS is addressing grand challenges by facilitating access to world-leading research expertise and a strong community of commercial players.

FISC
The Foundation Industries Sustainability Consortium (FISC) is leading the EconoMISER programme to develop a network of scale-up centres - accelerating innovation in low carbon, resource efficient and sustainable solutions for the foundation industries.

MATCelerate Zero
This project is a partnership between Royce, a number of world-leading materials research universities and global companies to develop a pipeline of commercial opportunities delivering competitive advantage and climate resilience.

SMI Hub
The Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub) works with businesses to create sustainability solutions for plastics use and end of life. Established in 2020 by Royce, the SMI Hub is able to perform materials assessments and provide concrete evaluation for products, packaging and components to inform more sustainable choices.

NTPMI
The National Technical Platform for Materials Innovation (NTPMI) is a four year programme which aims to empower, share expertise and best practice, and break down silos across the Research Technical Professional (RTP) community in materials innovation and associated manufacturing technology.

Roadmapping and Landscaping
Royce, with the support of the community, builds research roadmaps against national materials challenges, clarifying the technology gaps and interfaces which need to be addressed, to support the development of a national research business case.

Digital Materials Foundry
The Digital Materials Foundry is a new initiative established by Royce to support the digital transformation of materials innovation. The Foundry is leveraging open-access experimental databases, machine-learning code for property prediction and language models tailored for the materials domain to accelerate translation.

DMEx
The Defence Materials Centre of Excellence (DMEx) is bringing together world-leading researchers from Dstl, industry, research technology organisations and academia to develop the next generation of advanced materials systems for the Defence of the UK.

Hydrogen Accelerator
The Royce Hydrogen Accelerator has been designed to tackle materials challenges which are constraining the hydrogen supply chain. It will bridge the gap in the existing innovation landscape between lab-based materials research and proven technologies executed at scale. It will also coalesce a network of key voices from government, industry, academia and investment.

MATcelerate Health
MATcelerate Health is catalysing a paradigm shift in how medical material innovations are discovered and brought to market. Bioelectronics, bone replacement and wound care are just a few of the high-impact applications that will be assessed through the centre to address some of healthcare’s biggest challenges.

Tata Steel Innovation Centre
The Tata Steel Centre for Innovation in Advanced Materials is facilitating work between world-class scientists and a rich partner network to create sustainable, breakthrough, market-ready applications while exploring medical, 2D and second-life materials with an emphasis on reuse and recycling.

Innovation Strategy
Royce is promoting and supporting the development of a national strategy for materials innovation which is needed to deliver a coherent approach across Government, industry and the wider materials technology community.

Materials 4.0 CDT
The new Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Developing National Capability for Materials 4.0 with the Henry Royce Institute will train over 70 researchers with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to ensure national capability in Materials 4.0.
