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Promo banner. Text reads: product narratives; the challenges of supply and demand-side barriers for priority AT

05 August 2020

Product Narratives; the challenges of supply and demand-side barriers for priority AT – Disability Innovation Live. 17th September
Fireworks over the Olympic Stadium

03 August 2020

GDI Hub celebrates 8 years since London 2012 Paralympic Games
Colour Image of Cathy Holloway

27 July 2020

Professor Catherine Holloway recognised by UCL for globally leading role in building the disability innovation movement
Disability, Stigma & the role of Innovation - Disability Innovation Live, 6th Aug 2020

20 July 2020

Disability, Stigma & the role of Innovation - Disability Innovation Live, 6th Aug 2020
Disability Innovation Live. Digital Series

02 July 2020

Launching Disability Innovation Live - a new digital event series from GDI Hub
Entrance of Here East building

01 July 2020

Applications are open for the East London Inclusive Enterprise Zone (ELIEZ)
Student in Global Disability Innovation Hub’s MSc in Disability, Design and Innovation wins RSA Student Design Award

30 June 2020

Student in Global Disability Innovation Hub’s MSc in Disability, Design and Innovation wins RSA Student Design Award
Lincoln, a young black man, wearing a leather jacket and sat astride a motorcycle at an event. Poster stands are behind him - one partially reads "Innovation. Life changing assistive technology for all"

15 June 2020

Innovate Now, Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator announces KES2M Prize for First Winner
Jemiatu and Joanna. AT2030.

11 June 2020

Country Investment Fund (CIF) launched
Five speakers sitting in front of two banners (one of Amref and another of Innovate Now). They are next to a Kenyan sign language interpreter.

15 May 2020

Innovate Now Accelerator Programme Seeks Mobile Solutions to Assist Persons with Disabilities
InnovationAction.org

23 April 2020

New innovation platform www.innovationaction.org to provide global solutions to global challenges
Lord Chris Holmes, GDI Hub Chair addresses the 2017 Disability Innovation Summit.

26 March 2020

Postponement of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Banner with partners logos. Text reads: Global Search: existing and proven low-cost ventilator technologies.

17 March 2020

COVID-19 response: searching for emerging market ventilation systems
Wheelchair user sitting in front the workshop at UCL HereEast. Students working in the background.

04 March 2020

Creating the next generation of disability pioneers, UCL’s Disability, Design and Innovation MSc
Coverpage of Product Narrative Hearing Aids with an image of a hearing aids and AT2030 and ATscale logos

03 March 2020

Hearing Aid Product Narrative - strategic approach to increasing access
Male wheelchair user trying VR lenses. He is next to a woman that smiles to him while holding a pen.

28 February 2020

Accelerating rehab through virtual reality gaming
Group picture of judges, organisers and hackathon participants smiling and holding giant cheques with prizes.

18 February 2020

GDI Hub supports the Accessible cities Hackathon in Egypt
MSc students focusing on work in the UCL building.

09 January 2020

Brilliant disabled students sought for UK based post-graduate scholarship opportunity
Five students seating by a workshop table at UCL Here East. One of them is a wheelchair user..

18 December 2019

Three Snowdon Trust Scholarships available for our MSc in Disability, Design and Innovation
Five speakers sitting in front of two banners (one of Amref and another of Innovate Now). They are next to a Kenyan sign language interpreter.

02 December 2019

Unveiling the First Cohort of Assistive Technology Entrepreneurs of the Innovate Now Accelerator
A rear view of a crowded room in the UN, people are sat at desks addressing a panel at front

06 November 2019

WHO and UNICEF started Open Consultations for 27 Assistive Product Specifications (APS)
Cathy Holloway is standing giving a presentation to students that are gathered by a workshop table.

02 October 2019

GDI Hub welcomes first cohort of Disability, Design and Innovation MSc students
Panel of 9 speakers at the Innovation Ecosystem launch

30 September 2019

Innovate Now: 19 companies focused on Assistive Technologies have been selected for the Round 1 shortlist
Entrance of Here East building

20 September 2019

GDI Hub to be part of the UK’s most inclusive zone for accessible technology and disability-led innovation