Launch event for Bridging the Gaps: Sustainable Urban Spaces. UCL's Provost and President, Malcolm Grant was joined by David Price (Vice Provost for Research), Sarah Bell (PI for the Bridging the Gaps programme) and Jonathon Porritt (Founder Director of Forum for the Future) to launch Bridging the Gaps: Sustainable Urban Spaces.  Bridging the Gaps is an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded research programme which has been designed to bring UCL researchers together to carry out interdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable urban spaces.The launch event featured presentations that covered the importance of research at UCL and the introduction of the Grand Challenges. The aims of the Bridging the Gaps programme were covered, as were some of the upcoming events and funding opportunities. Jonathon Porritt provided an overview of the current challenges to sustainability in today's world.