EngBio4Env Programme Launch
With the announcement from UKRI of their major investment in two flagship doctoral training initiatives designed to strengthen the UK’s talent pipeline, EBIC are delighted to share the launch of our EngBio4Env programme, which will take the transformative advances made in engineering biology over the last few years and translate them into practical, real-world solutions.
“EngBio4Env is about moving engineering biology out of the laboratory and into the real world. By bringing together biology, engineering, data, and policy in a single, integrated training programme, we are preparing researchers to tackle environmental challenges at the scale and speed they demand. This programme will not only fill a critical skills gap in the UK, but also empower a new generation of leaders to turn scientific innovation into practical solutions for people, industry, and the environment”.
52 doctoral candidates
The EngBio4Env programme also includes EBIC partners Newcastle University, the University of Glasgow and the University of Southampton; as well as Brunel University of London and further supported by the National Measurement Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory.
EngBio4Env will train 52 doctoral candidates to tackle these key areas:
- Drive the UK’s transition to a circular bioeconomy and net-zero economy.
- Develop field-ready biotechnologies for pollution remediation, resource recovery, and real-time environmental monitoring.
- Lead in sectors such as bio-based green economy, environmental resilience, clean growth, and data-driven environmental governance.
- Address critical skills shortages in microbial community engineering, AI-driven bioprocess optimisation, bespoke biosecurity solutions, and process scale-up for industrial applications.
- Influence policy through robust environmental techno-economic and risk assessments.
