Join a national mission to create cleaner, smarter, more competitive industries – and help shape what comes next
UK industries face increasing pressure to decarbonise, innovate and stay competitive. Green Industrial Futures brings businesses together with world‑class researchers and national expertise to accelerate practical, scalable low‑carbon solutions.
Contact cdtgreenindustrialfutures@hw.ac.uk to arrange an introductory meeting with the team to discuss potential collaboration pathways.
Why Join Us
- Support the talent pipeline to develop the skills your organisation needs most
- Unlock new technologies, skills & commercial opportunities
- Cut emissions & reduce energy costs
- Build resilient, future‑proof industrial systems
- Access to a highly skilled pool of talent that has expertise across the industrial system and an interdisciplinary awareness of industrial decarbonisation
- Access to world-leading academic experts and state-of-the-art facilities to develop practical solutions to decarbonisation challenges
- Direct input into the direction of the centre to steer our programme to meet your talent & research needs
- Engage and network with other project partners via the CDT-GIF annual conferences and other events/webinars
- Engage with our students via site visits and/or our Frontiers Forum, a fortnightly online session where we discuss topical issues in the net zero space.
What You Gain
- Access to leading research at Heriot‑Watt University, Imperial College London, University of Bath, University of Sheffield & IDRIC
- Co‑designed solutions tailored to your needs
- Innovation support: modelling, demonstrations & deployment
- Influence in shaping the UK’s industrial decarbonisation future
- A collaborative network for long‑term impact
Co-sponsor a four-year studentship
Total contribution: £65k* (for cohort 3)
*for SME’s, 75% of studentship cost equally matched by UKRI
Partner benefits:
-50% of studentship cost equally matched by UKRI, direct input into the scoping and shaping of a PhD research project directly aligned to your organisation’s research needs
-work with team of supervisors and student to advise and supervise training/research
-fund a student in any cohort (from Oct to Oct)
-host a student work placement
Total contribution: £65k* (for cohort 3)
*for SME’s, 75% of studentship cost equally matched by UKRI
Partner benefits:
-50% of studentship cost equally matched by UKRI, direct input into the scoping and shaping of a PhD research project directly aligned to your organisation’s research needs
-work with team of supervisors and student to advise and supervise training/research
-fund a student in any cohort (from Oct to Oct)
-host a student work placement
General support contribution
Total Contribution: £10k per year
Partner benefits:
-set industry challenge projects for students to work on to provide solutions for pressing research challenges in Year 2
-host student work placements
-access to wider programme outputs
-access to wider pool of talent (100 students)
-opportunity to enrol employee to undertake training programme (awarded PGDip Green Industrial Futures after 2 years from HWU)
-UK based employees only
Total Contribution: £10k per year
Partner benefits:
-set industry challenge projects for students to work on to provide solutions for pressing research challenges in Year 2
-host student work placements
-access to wider programme outputs
-access to wider pool of talent (100 students)
-opportunity to enrol employee to undertake training programme (awarded PGDip Green Industrial Futures after 2 years from HWU)
-UK based employees only
