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At this year’s BUILDING BLOCKS Insights event, hundreds of Year 5 students were met with a burst of energy from Mi-box Live, a game that transforms the way we think about maths.

At this year’s BUILDING BLOCKS Insights event, hundreds of Year 5 students were met with a burst of energy from Mi-box Live, a game that transforms the way we think about maths.

Leading the way with a unique LEGO ‘serious play’ workshop at this year’s BUILDING BLOCKS Insights event was RTC North, a business support and innovation organisation based at Newcastle Helix.

Lighting up the room (literally) with LED coding workshops at BUILDING BLOCKS Insights, Altitude Foundation are passionate about inspiring the next generation of tech talent and showing them what is possible.

A groundbreaking event, returning for its biggest year yet, saw hundreds of North East primary school children take a special trip to the North East innovation district of Newcastle Helix, for two whole days of learning, play and inspiration.

Helix is a beacon for the transfer of knowledge between academics, industry, the public sector and wider public. There are hundreds of SMEs based on-site and thousands of students working alongside global businesses at the cutting edge of sectors like renewables, life sciences, data, and ageing.

Three innovative life science businesses based at Newcastle Helix are taking on a starring role in the first of a new series of films.

It was an absolute pleasure to meet Legal and General’s new Group CEO António Simões last week at Newcastle Helix and showcase the site.

Yesterday, we welcomed over 240 enthusiastic school children on site here at Newcastle Helix to enjoy ‘Building Blocks’.

Newcastle University research has shown that human-following robots can support the mobility and wellbeing of older people.

Helix estate managers Knight Frank have partnered with Bike4Health to launch a quarterly pop-up bike hub.

Whether you work on the Helix site, or are visiting, there are plenty of independent cafes and restaurants right on its doorstep to keep you

Innovation assets on Newcastle Helix, world-leading research strengths and existing international profile as a UK ‘go-to’ ageing cluster pla

The study is a unique survey of the subsurface of the Newcastle Helix site in Newcastle city centre. 150 sensors have been deployed.

This collaborative project, funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency aims to deliver a personalised, remote wellbeing program.

VOICE and the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) have set up a partnership with non-profit organisation amazing.community.

The Lumen is a sustainable building built to the highest specification whilst meeting the highest environmental standards.

The event was led by Dr Susan Kirk and Dr Andrew Kingston from Newcastle University and marked the start of a new cross-sector partnership.

Building on a collaboration originally formalised in 2018, this agreement strengthens the partners’ joint work on access and widening partic

The global workforce is ageing, with people aged over 50 already accounting for nearly 1 in 3 workers (29% of the workforce) in 2018 – up fr