A local company Floow has partnered up with the European Space Agency to carry out a year long research project in traffic pollution. The project announcement comes just weeks after the Government was ordered by the UK’s Supreme Court to take immediate action on air pollution.
A digital art festival which had participants from Norway, Iceland, Finland and France was held in Sheffield. The Do It Anyway Festival encourages people to use open source software to make digital art.
An exhibition that is encouraging young people to take up careers in Manufacturing, Engineering and Aviation took place at Magna. One of the projects based in East Yorkshire has people aged between 11 and 18 years old building a plane which they will then learn to fly.
The Olympic Legacy Park which is being built on the old Don Valley Stadium site will be up and running in 18 months time says Richard Caborn former Minister of Sport and MP for Sheffield Central.
Frances O’ Grady, General Secretary of the TUC said that Forgemasters is a classic case of a company that the Government should be backing because it provides decent jobs, greener economy and export opportunities.
Sheffield is on its way to getting more powers over is transport, business and housing infrastructure as Whitehall hands over more power to local councils
A turf cutting ceremony was held to celebrate construction work beginning on an extension to the Hillsborough College which will be specialising in Journalism and the creative industries.
Dr Aledia Guevara, came and spoke at the University of Sheffield, about how Cuba is helping the fight against Ebola by being amongst the first countries to send medical staff and supplies at the beginning of the epidemic.
Sheffield City College have started work on a new Technical, Engineering and Design Centre on their Olive Grove site. The project which is called TED is aiming to make Sheffield the place to come to if you want to study any of the three disciplines.
Sheffield City Council are offering information and advice about how to build your own home. It is hoped that this will go some of the way to solving the housing shortage in the City.