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University receives its first ‘Shorter’ Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant

Published 20 November 2009

The university has received its first ‘Shorter’ Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant, one of the government’s new provisions for short-term projects.

The university is receiving £38,000, part of which will be used to employ an associate over 40 weeks to help develop a strategy for dealing with non-municipal waste for East and West Sussex county councils and Brighton and Hove City Council.

Shorter KTPs are an extension of the government’s long-standing KTP scheme which supports links between organisations and knowledge-bases. Shorter KTPs are designed to be quicker to secure funds and are more tactically based.

They can be up to 40 weeks in length and utilise knowledge transfer from the university to enable project delivery within organisations via a KTP associate. They can run in parallel with other projects, can be a pre-curser for further research, or they can fund work which follows on from existing projects. They extend the flexibility of the KTP scheme, enabling organisations to access relevant expertise while receiving partial funding from government sponsors.

The university has received 117 KTP grants since the scheme started and it currently is handling 17 KTP programmes with a total value of just under £2 million.