Sci-Tech Daresbury, also known as Sci-Tech Daresbury Enterprise Zone, is a science and innovation campus near the village of
Daresbury
Daresbury is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Halton and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 216, increasing to 246 by the 2011 census.
History
The name means "Deor's fo ...
in
Halton,
Cheshire,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. The site began life as the
Daresbury Laboratory
Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory based at Sci-Tech Daresbury campus near Daresbury in Halton, Cheshire, England. The laboratory began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear P ...
later adding the
Cockcroft Institute
The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University ...
, Innovation Centre,
Vanguard House and ITAC. Over 1,300 people work on the campus for nearly 150 high tech companies.
The science park was formerly known as Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus. In 2012 it was given
enterprise zone status and renamed Sci-Tech Daresbury.
Daresbury Laboratory
Projects
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ALICE (accelerator)
Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments (ALICE), or Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) is a 35MeV energy recovery linac test facility at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England. The project was originally conceived as a test bed fo ...
, an electron accelerator previously known as ERLP (
Energy Recovery Linac Prototype).
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EMMA (accelerator)
The electron machine with many applications or electron model for many applications (EMMA) is a linear non-scaling FFAG (fixed-field alternating-gradient) particle accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK that can accelerate electrons from ...
an electron accelerator experiment based on the
FFAG accelerator
A Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerator (FFA; also abbreviated FFAG) is a circular particle accelerator concept that can be characterized by its time-independent magnetic fields (''fixed-field'', like in a cyclotron) and the use of alternat ...
concept.
Cockcroft Institute
The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for
Accelerator Science and Technology
Accelerator may refer to:
In science and technology
In computing
*Download accelerator, or download manager, software dedicated to downloading
*Hardware acceleration, the use of dedicated hardware to perform functions faster than a CPU
**Gra ...
(AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of
Lancaster University, the
University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
, established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
, the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
, the
Science and Technology Facilities Council
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a United Kingdom government agency that carries out research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astro ...
, and the
Northwest Regional Development Agency. The Institute is located in a purpose-built building on the Daresbury campus, and in centres in each of the participating universities.
References
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Science and Technology Facilities Council
Science and technology in Cheshire
Science parks in the United Kingdom