About the UK Digital Twin Centre

Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre will make digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It will actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.

Operating from the heart of Northern Ireland, the Centre will accelerate the adoption of digital twins to drive global competitive advantage for businesses across the UK. By creating the conditions for digital twins to be better understood, more easily developed and more meaningfully applied, the Centre will give businesses real-time capabilities to make smarter decisions and achieve better outcomes, enabling the potential of digital twins to be realised, not theorised.

Endorsed by industry, the Centre has launched with co-investment from three major industry partners: Thales UK, Spirit AeroSystems and Artemis Technologies to deliver an initial six use cases to demonstrate the potential of digital twins in transforming the maritime, aerospace and defence sectors. 

In a step-change from traditional research and innovation centres, the open-access Centre aims to accelerate industry’s adoption of digital twins through providing access to cutting edge technologies, reducing the costs of producing a digital twin, developing skills and capability in the workforce – therefore removing key barriers businesses face. The Centre will also provide a Collaborative space for academia, industry and the public sector to foster collaborative innovation to foster cross-sector innovation.

The UK Digital Twin Centre will open early 2025 in Belfast City Centre. 

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