Net Zero - Entrepreneurial Futures project

Working with businesses to deliver research and development-led approaches to achieving net zero
Close up of the Sustainability Hub's external facade
Through the Entrepreneurial Futures project's net zero strand, the University is collaborating with enterprises in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly on low-carbon projects.
Our support includes the opportunity to partner with a business research fellow to carry out research that is informed by business needs around one of the following topics:  
  • living wall systems 
  • cob as a sustainable building material 
  • nature-based solutions for carbon offsetting. 
In addition to research support, we have funded internship placing students or recent graduates within enterprises in Cornwall to work on projects that will ultimately reduce carbon emissions.  
Current students and recent graduates of the University of Plymouth are interning with businesses across Cornwall to work on a low-carbon project through the Entrepreneurial Futures Net Zero Internship and Leadership Programme.
View over countryside looking towards Redruth in Cornwall
 
 
 

Research opportunities

Interested in collaborating with us on one of the research themes below? Complete an expression of interest form and we'll be in touch.

Green Wall Close Up
Built Environment: Living Walls
Exploring new advances and climate change variables in nature-based living wall systems.
CobBauge Building
Built Environment: CobBauge
Investigating the performance of cob as a construction material through dynamic thermal modelling to predict climate and commercial viability.
Oak woodland. A group of trees on a hill.
Carbon offsetting: Nature-based solutions
Mapping nature-based terrestrial carbon offsets, focusing on land of marginal agricultural profitability.

Net-Zero Exchange  

Supporting the race to net zero.
A network of researchers and enterprises exploring a whole-systems approach to net zero carbon emissions.
net-zero connections

Net zero explained

Professor Ian Bailey shines a light on the importance of climate change acts and asks how we reconcile the time frames over which climate policy needs to be developed with short-term political pressures – a challenging task that both present and future governments will need to address when trying to introduce policies to achieve net zero emissions. 
Research at the Centre for Decarbonisation and Offshore Renewable Energy aims to make climate solutions more affordable, more technologically feasible and less politically contentious. 
 

Entrepreneurial Futures: Net-Zero Team

Nurturing, embedding and accelerating an entrepreneurial culture in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Find out more about the Entrepreneurial Futures project.

Entrepreneurial Futures