Three awards under the EU Innovative Training Networks (ITN) scheme have been awarded to Southampton, bringing the total awards funded under Horizon 2020 to one hundred.
The 100th award is led by Wendy Adams, Professor of Experimental Psychology, whose multi-disciplinary Dynamics in Vision and Touch (DyViTo) project received the highest-rated score from Horizon 2020 that the University has ever seen.
The main goal of DyViTo is to produce a step change in the industrial challenge of creating virtual objects that look, feel, move and change like ‘the real thing’. An example could be the ability to interact with a virtual object you are thinking of buying. With the right visual-haptic interface, you can ‘touch’ and ‘rotate’ the object to give you a better idea of the product before you buy it.
Professors Malcolm Levitt and Marcel Utz also secured funding for their projects in the field of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance).
Professor Atul Bhaskar was awarded funding for a collaborative doctoral training programme addressing the need to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from modern diesel engines.
There are still opportunities to bid for EU ITN grants which are open to all topics of interest. For further information please contact the University’s EU Office.
