The winners of this year’s UK Sport Ideas4Innovation competition include a researcher from Liverpool John Moores University and a team of university graduates.

A golden meadow of wild flowers is blooming around the Olympic Stadium in a successful ‘dress rehearsal’ for London 2012 thanks to green fingered experts from the University of Sheffield.

The University of Bath is marking two years to go until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by holding a six day training camp for Britain’s Paralympic hopefuls.

Loughborough University has helped the NHS create a new interactive online tool called ‘What’s Your Sport?’ which is designed to inspire more people to take up different sports in the run-up to London 2012.