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Royal Bank of Scotland’s Latest Green Drive

By updatesPosted on 30th March 202130th March 2021Posted in Industry News, Climate Tech

There are just eight months to go before the eyes of the world fall upon Glasgow as the globe’s most powerful nations come together for COP26. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties begins on November 1 and for 12 days the

LEAD SCOTLAND MAKING ONLINE SECURITY ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL WITH NEW ALTERNATIVE FORMATS

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Diversity and Inclusion, Industry News

Lead Scotland is proud to be working with a range of partners commissioning and developing 16 new alternative formats of online safety and security messaging for people who might find current messaging inaccessible. The new formats will include text formats,

Make a difference to the NHS in Scotland

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

The NHS impacts on everyone’s lives at one time or another and this could be your chance to get involved in improving, sustaining and protecting the health of the local population. What’s involved? NHS Lanarkshire, NHS 24 and the Scottish

Accelerating Scotland’s tech-led recovery

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in Industry News

Programme backed by £7 million funding in first year. A leading expert in scaling digital businesses has been appointed to oversee work to establish Scotland as a world-class technology hub. Mark Logan, former Skyscanner executive and Professor of Computing Science

Dundee 5G Centre Innovation Hub to Boost City’s Tech Sector

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

The new centre will help develop the city’s already prominent tech sector, including in video games, healthcare, and manufacturing. A new Scotland 5G Centre Innovation Hub based in Dundee will join the country’s £4-million national network, the Scotland 5G Centre

£4m green buses and lorries centre for Dundee’s Michelin Innovation Parc

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in Industry News, Climate Tech

Multi-million pound research work to develop the next generation of green buses and lorries will be based at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) in Dundee. The LOCATE facility will become part of the former tyre factory site after receiving

Roslin to host new Agritech Hub

By updatesPosted on 24th March 202124th March 2021Posted in Industry News, Climate Tech

Improving the efficiency and output of agriculture and enhancing worldwide food security will be the focus at a new multi-million pound agri-tech hub outside Edinburgh. The £74 million investment in the Easter Bush Agritech Hub promises to see world-leading research

Scottish Enterprise to make £4 million available for green jobs

By updatesPosted on 22nd March 202122nd March 2021Posted in Industry News, Opportunity, Climate Tech

Scottish Enterprise today announced the first of a series of grant funding calls to help support economic recovery and stimulate the creation of new green jobs to advance Scotland’s net zero emission ambitions. The £4 million green jobs call will

Secretary of State’s Ten Tech Priorities for UK

By updatesPosted on 12th March 202112th March 2021Posted in Industry News

Secretary of State, Oliver Dowden, has set out Ten Tech Priorities for the UK in driving digitally-enabled economic growth, both in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and into the future. Here are the 10 ways DCMS intends to deploy digital tech to

Scotland’s Digital Strategy: Creating an inclusive digital world

By updatesPosted on 11th March 202111th March 2021Posted in Member News, Policy, Industry News

Geography, background or ability should not be a barrier to getting online. An ambition to achieve ”world leading” levels of digital inclusion is at the heart of plans to equip Scotland for the technological transformation of the post-coronavirus (COVID-19) world. The