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Milton Keynes City Council and The Open University (OU) are once again teaming up to promote Milton Keynes as one of the world’s leading smart cities through the hugely successful MK:Smart initiative.

The Open University is involved in a £4.8 million research and policy action group, EPIC Futures NI, aimed at addressing economic inactivity in Northern Ireland.

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking the UK charity sector to determine future challenges that we can collaboratively tackle.

The Open University (OU) is pioneering a new approach to research by asking businesses to determine future challenges that we can tackle.

An OU researcher has received just over half a million pounds to use new Machine Learning tools to analyse huge image datasets collected by spacecraft orbiting Mars.

The Open University was presented with a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education by Her Majesty The Queen this week (22 February 2024) at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

One of The Open University's (OU) Open Societal Challenges projects which seeks new approaches to treat an incurable form of prostate cancer has received a Prostate Cancer UK Research Innovation Award.

OU researchers have been awarded just over £100,000 from UK Space Agency to provide training for the analysis of samples from Mars.

In his inaugural lecture on 13 February 2024, Advaith Siddharthan, Professor of Computer Science and Society in the OU’s Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, discussed the impacts of modern culture's disassociation with nature and the potential for citizen science methodologies to redress these.

OU researchers are highlighting the importance of social connectedness for those undergoing self-managed abortions in the UK.