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DAFNI Programme's Centre of Excellence

The Centre is initially funded by a £4M grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), awarded in Spring 2023 to the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Scientific Computing to establish a national Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis, and moves DAFNI into its new phase.

DAFNI Programme's Annual Conference 2024

The DAFNI Programme’s Annual Conference will be held on Tuesday 10th September 2024 at Conference Aston, Birmingham. We hope to see you there!

Technical Training

The DAFNI technical team are hosting regular platform training sessions. Click below to find out more and book your space.

DAFNI Programme's Webinar Series

The DAFNI programme will be launching a monthly webinar over the lunchtime period, each month we will have a new speaker to discuss their work using the DAFNI platform. 

Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure

DAFNI is the National Platform to satisfy the computational needs in support of data analysis; infrastructure research; and strategic thinking for the UK’s long term planning and investment needs.

The platform will support academic research that is aiming to provide the UK with a world leading infrastructure system that is more: efficient, reliable, resilient and affordable.

It will achieve this by enabling the research community to conduct research that is able to generate new insights at a higher level of detail and accuracy than ever before.

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The key to research and innovation for infrastructure systems now lies in data. DAFNI enables the secure and reliable sharing of data so that researchers and innovators can solve problems and provide new solutions. If DAFNI didn’t exist, we would have to invent it! But we don’t have to because the team at STFC have been working for eight years to develop a data and modelling infrastructure that can provide the simulation and digital twin solutions that our infrastructure systems urgently need.”

Prof. Jim Hall
Chair of DAFNI Governance Board

News

With all the latest news, events and publications discover more about DAFNI

Register for our 2025 conference!

Register for our 2025 conference!

Our next conference will be taking place on 11th September 2025 and will be held at The Edge, University of Sheffield. The theme this year will be 'Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry' and the importance of collaborative research and how it is key to future ...

Newsletter 2nd December 2024

Newsletter 2nd December 2024

Working together for resilient infrastructure - DAFNI Conference 2024 Over 150 in-person delegates came together for DAFNI’s day-long annual conference on 10th September 2024, to discuss the theme of ‘Working Together for Resilient Infrastructure’. The conference included ...

A wonderful first Belfast roadshow!

A wonderful first Belfast roadshow!

We were so pleased with the great turnout for the DAFNI Belfast roadshow on 28-29 October 2024, where speakers from across Northern Ireland presented their research and where we discussed research into infrastructure systems and the challenges and opportunities of data ...

Networkshop

Networkshop

DAFNI (the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) held the inaugural DAFNI Networkshop on 21st May 2024 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The day-long event provided the opportunity for DAFNI users to meet each other in-person, make new connections, ...

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