- Ministers signal UK-Netherlands Innovation Partnership in London – deepening ties on AI, quantum and semiconductors
- With main science and tech corporations and top-tier analysis expertise, each nations are pure companions in science and know-how
- Partnership builds on analysis UK and Netherlands already pursue together by way of Horizon Europe, CERN, and extra
Efforts to develop the subsequent era of super-powerful computer systems, to put quantum merchandise to work in settings from clear vitality to medical analysis, and to assist for the UK’s semiconductor innovators, are all in line for a lift by way of a brand new UK-Netherlands new partnership on science and tech. The deal has been agreed by Ministers from each nations yesterday (Tuesday 11 November).
The UK’s Minister for AI and Online Safety, Kanishka Narayan, and the Netherlands’ Cabinet Minister for Economic Affairs, Vincent Karremans, signed the UK-Netherlands Innovation Partnership at a gathering in London on 11 November. The settlement units out how the 2 nations will forge nearer ties of their work to seize the huge potential for AI, quantum, and semiconductors to be forces for financial progress and to assist sort out main challenges going through each nations, from local weather change to healthcare.
These are 3 areas which the UK and the Netherlands are well-placed to collaborate on:
- the UK’s semiconductor clusters in South Wales, Scotland and elsewhere harbour deep experience in specialised fields like chip design and compound semiconductors, whereas the Netherlands is house to corporations like ASML that are crucial to the complete world’s semiconductors provide chain
- each nations already work together intently on quantum, with a joint R&D scheme value £1.2 million presently being delivered
- in addition to having appreciable AI strengths, each the UK and the Netherlands are exploring new varieties of computing, impressed by the workings of the human mind, to make future AI programs extra {powerful} and sustainable
UK Minister for AI and Online Safety Kanishka Narayan stated:
Breakthrough applied sciences like AI and quantum are at the coronary heart of our ambitions for financial progress, higher public providers, and nationwide renewal.
These fields are already delivering breakthroughs: from life-saving medicines to next-gen batteries for clear vitality, these breakthroughs are already altering lives.
By partnering with the Netherlands, we are able to speed up innovation and ship extra affect, quicker.
The Innovation Partnership agreed builds on robust science and tech ties that exist already between the UK and the Netherlands. Both nations’ researchers work together by way of Horizon Europe, the world’s largest programme of analysis collaboration, which has seen British photo voltaic vitality agency Oxford PV work together with the Dutch Marine Energy Centre, on a £6 million mission testing a floating photo voltaic farm on the North Sea.
The UK and the Netherlands are additionally half of shared worldwide endeavours like the PIXEurope consortium – a detailed to €400 million European initiative geared toward advancing photonic chip applied sciences. Among its 20 collaborating analysis organisations are the University of Cambridge and the University of Southampton from the UK and Dutch institutes TU Delft, the University of Twente, and TNO.
While each nations are additionally half of shared worldwide endeavours like the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, the European Space Agency, and particle physics laboratory CERN – the place breakthroughs in particle accelerator know-how have led to superior most cancers therapies.