Programme journey 

During each programme, you will have the opportunity to apply for an academic collaboration with experts from across LSBU. 

We will work with you to determine the scope of your collaboration and offer one-to-one sessions with academic mentors and subject matter experts. You will also have regular progress meetings with the BIG project management team.

Meetings will take place online or in person at LSBU's Southwark Campus, conveniently located in the heart of London.

Digital Health and Wellbeing

This unique opportunity supports enterprises to access high-quality expertise at a world-leading level on a fully funded basis.

Collaborate with LSBU academics from the Schools of Applied Sciences or Engineering on the design, development or testing of your digital health and wellbeing product or service. 

The scope of the academic collaboration may include technical support in the development of products or services or research projects to independently evaluate your product for usability, safety and/or efficacy.

Any technology area is relevant, including but not limited to, wearable devices, virtual reality applications, remote patient monitoring, AI, app development, healthcare analytics and Big Data and healthcare cybersecurity to support mental health, wellbeing, healthy living, and illness prevention.

The programme is open for registration.

Circular Economy

Circular Economy refers to strategies and practices aimed at minimising waste and maximising the use of resources by keeping products, components, and materials in use for as long as possible through reuse, recycling, and regeneration.

This is a unique opportunity to work with pioneering Circular Economy experts on a fully funded basis. We will support your business or third-sector organisation to create Circular Economy solutions or implement Circular Economy principles.

The format is a series of easy-to-access online webinars, plus the opportunity to gain dedicated expertise from one of LSBU’s academic teams to either evaluate an existing product or service or provide expertise to develop a new one.

The programme content will apply to your business whether you operate in a high-tech or low-tech sector. Here are some of the key areas we will cover:

• Introduction to Circular Economy
• Eco-design and design for circularity
• Introducing circular solutions to your enterprise
• Increasing your existing circular solutions and improving your products and services
• Measuring circularity
• Introduction to the principles of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCA) and circularity
• How to use the Circular Data Centre Compass (CDCC) - an online tool designed to assist data centre industry businesses in IT design/procurement/end-of-life decision making

This four-month programme will culminate in a showcase enabling you to demo your solutions, expand your network and build momentum for your enterprise. It could also lead to a longer-term collaboration with LSBU.

The programme is open for registration.

Creative and Digital Tech

This fully funded programme, based out of London South Bank University’s Immersive Media Hub invites South London-based businesses and third-sector organisations working with creative technologies.

Successful participants will have access to a range of creative, content production technologies including:

• Virtual reality
• Motion capture
• Virtual production
• High-end editing workstations

The programme will offer various types of support, regardless of whether you or your business is familiar with immersive technology or not, with group-based workshops available to those looking to test and explore new technology and gain a better understanding of how creative tech can enhance their productivity, or be used for prototyping new products and services.

You also will be available to engage in ‘Academic to Business’ collaborations by being paired with academic expertise from LSBU’s School of Arts and Creative Industries. These collaboration opportunities provide businesses with bespoke, 1-2-1 support and differ from the workshop designed as introductory and idea-provoking support.

This programme is open for registrations.

Low Carbon

This is a unique opportunity to connect you with LSBU's world-renowned School of Engineering academics and expert consultants on a fully funded basis.

This programme is best suited to any enterprise seeking to reduce the carbon footprint, or, is aiming to develop low carbon solutions. Or, implement low carbon and energy saving principles into their business model. Through academic collaboration, we plan to support you in bringing new cleantech products, processes, and services to market.

During the programme, you will have access to LSBU's state-of-the-art facilities which range from wet chemistry labs and materials testing equipment, to software modelling and simulation tools.

Across the four months you will join workshops to support you in understanding key principles of low carbon solutions and work with LSBU experts to:

• Reduce your energy consumption, operating costs, and CO2 emissions
• Explore securing investment to reach growth ambitions
• Develop a Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
• Develop, test, and improve a product
• Build a sustainable business model

This programme will finish with a showcase allowing you to demo your products and services, expand your network, and build momentum for your business which could also lead to longer-term collaboration with LSBU.

This programme is now open for registration.