STFC - Swansea University / TWI Regional B4I Pilot Centre, Wales.

该提案的目标是为威尔士创建一个以光束桥为中心的工业中心。光束桥是一项活动（由当地专业设施和专业知识支持），支持（桥）访问STFC的国家级科学设施，特别是（但不限于）ISIS中子和钻石光源光束线（因此得名）。与英国其他地区相比，威尔士的制造业工作岗位比例更高，并且在冶金和绿色能源、健康解决方案和半导体制造等各个领域，拥有大量规模各异的企业集群，从锚公司到中小企业。然而，与英格兰南部和东部的类似企业相比，该地区无法获得STFC的同等设施。这项活动旨在通过以下方式解决这一差异：第一：向当地工业通报当地和国家设施的能力并邀请表达兴趣；第二：协助设计实验并在当地完成概念验证研究；第三：支持使用STFC设施，包括获取后数据分析和解释。拟议的中心将建立在现有设施和专业知识的基础上，这些设施和专业知识是基于焊接研究所-南威尔士（TWI）和斯旺西大学（SU）的先进材料成像（AIM）设施。这些设施共同代表了该区域无与伦比的鉴定能力和专业知识的临界质量。然而，为当地工业和学术合作伙伴提供服务的丰富经验突出了这些先进技术的能力局限性，这些技术只能在国家一级的设施中解决，例如STFC提供的设施。TWI和AIM将利用这些设施以及这些知识和经验来支持当地企业走向光束线。该中心将雇用业务发展官员（bibo），他们最初将借调到STFC，然后返回该地区，利用他们获得的联系和专业知识与当地行业接触，评估兴趣水平，并从概念验证到数据分析为他们提供支持。当地工业将首先通过TWIs和SU自己的行业参与机制（代表该地区的数百家公司）参与。然而，BIBOs将在相关的行业会议上宣传该中心的活动，战略合作伙伴EEF（制造商组织-拥有25,000家公司的网络）将大大扩大参与范围。该中心将与威尔士政府的创新威尔士（WG）智能专业化实施计划密切相关，WG是该中心的合作伙伴。该中心将与该战略中确定的关键集群的代表进行互动，例如SPECIFIC IKC和化合物半导体集群。这些活动的预期直接影响包括：威尔士最先进的特征设施的利用率增加，工业研究和开发活动的增加和改善，泛供应链的增加，工业间和工业-学术研究活动的增加，以及威尔士内部STFC设施的利用率提高。然而，预计这些直接收益将会产生间接影响，例如：增加就业机会，增加威尔士的经济产出（和GVA），以及对英国技术和环境目标的贡献。

This goal of this proposal is to create a beamline-bridging industry-focussed centre for Wales. A beamline bridge is an activity (supported by local specialist facilities and expertise) that supports (bridges) access to STFC's national level scientific facilities and in particular (but not limited to) the ISIS neutron and Diamond light source beamlines (hence the name). Wales has a higher proportion of manufacturing based jobs than the rest of the UK and has clusters of large numbers of businesses of varying size from anchor companies to SMEs in a variety of sectors from metallurgy and green energy, to health solutions and semiconductor fabrication. However, this region does not access STFC facilities at the same level as similar businesses based in the South and East of England. This activity aims to address this disparity by First: Informing local industry of the capabilities of the local and national facilities and inviting expressions of interest, Second: Aiding in design of experimentation and completing proof of concept studies locally and Third: Supporting access to STFC facilities including post-acquisition data analysis and interpretation. The proposed centre will be built on existing facilities and expertise based at both The Welding Institute - South Wales (TWI) and Swansea University's (SU) Advanced Imaging of Materials (AIM) Facility. Together these facilities represent a critical mass of characterisation capability and expertise un-paralleled in the region. However, significant experience serving both local industry and academic partners has highlighted the limitations in capability even of these advanced techniques that can only be addressed at national level facilities, such as those provided by STFC. It is these facilities and this knowledge and experience that TWI and AIM will draw on to support local businesses on their pathway to the beamlines. The centre will employ business development officers (BIBOs) that will initially be seconded to STFC and then return to the region to utilise the contacts and expertise they have acquired to engage local industry, assess levels of interest and support them from proof concept to data analysis. Local industry will be engaged first and foremost via TWIs and SU's own industry engagement mechanisms (representing hundreds of companies in the region). However, BIBOs will publicise the centre's activities at relevant industry conferences and strategic partners EEF (The Manufacturers Organisation -who have a network of 25,000 companies) will broaden engagement significantly.The centre will be closely aligned to Innovation Wales, Welsh Government's (WG) Smart Specialisation implementation plan with WG as a partner in the centre. The centre will interact with representatives of key clusters identified in this strategy such as the SPECIFIC IKC and the compound semiconductor cluster. Expected direct impacts of the activities include: Increased utilisation of state-of-the-art characterisation facilities with Wales, Increased and improved industrial research and development activity, Increase in pan-supply chain, inter-industrial and industry-academic research activity and critically, Improved utilisation of STFC facilities from within Wales. However, it is also expected that these direct benefits will cascade into indirect impact such as: increased job creation, increased economic output (and GVA) in Wales and contributions to UK technological and environmental targets.