Finalists revealed in 5th Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards
This February marks the fifth year of the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards, which recognise, reward and celebrate the impacts achieved through academic and business partnerships, demonstrating how innovative businesses, universities, research institutes and colleges are leading the way towards economic growth, societal improvements and environmental advances.
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Minister learns how pupils benefit from business-academic partnership
02 May 2017
Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, discovered first-hand how a partnership between a publisher of school study guides and a Scottish university has benefited more than 60,000 students and teachers.
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Interface Multiparty Competition - collaborative partners wanted
21 April 2017
The Interface Multiparty Competition is aimed at multiparty groups of businesses, within creative industries, food & drink and tourism sectors, working in collaboration with an academic partner from a Scottish university, college or research institution.
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Golden opportunity for tourist trade
28 March 2017
An ageing population at home and overseas presents a golden opportunity for Scotland’s tourism businesses.
With higher levels of average spend, a tendency for repeat visits and loyalty to a country, destination or business, older visitors from the UK and the rest of Europe are a growing market.
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Scottish Food & Drink Industry unveils new vision to double size of industry to £30 billion by 2030
23 March 2017
A new, ambitious strategy to drive growth in Scotland’s farming, fishing, food and drink industry was unveiled today by industry body, Scotland Food & Drink.
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The success of the Interface model spreads to Denmark
13 March 2017
Interface has been selected by a Danish economic development organisation to feature as a case study in a report on international best practice in knowledge exchange.
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Celebrating International Women's Day #BeBoldForChange
08 March 2017
International Women's Day has laudable aims – a better working world and a more gender inclusive world.
The Interface team celebrated March 8 by holding inspirational signs pledging their support for women under this year's theme - #BeBoldForChange - and posting them on our social networks to spread the message. Simple, but effective.
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VisitScotland launches Scotland virtual reality experience
28 February 2017
A competition by Scotland’s national tourism organisation VisitScotland celebrating the expertise, skills and knowledge of Scotland’s academic institutions, and developed in collaboration with Interface, has produced a groundbreaking virtual reality app launched today.
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Winners of the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards announced
20 February 2017
A Fife fruit and vegetable wholesaler who had a “eureka moment” in the middle of the night has picked up the coveted Innovation of the Year award at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2017.
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What’s Dinner?
13 February 2017
Family dinners sitting round the dining room table may be a thing of the past, while younger consumers have switched to eating “mini meals”, according to an international speaker on global food and drink industry issues.
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History in the Making
26 January 2017
Not many people are able to say that they can give others a ‘sense of who they are’, but this is exactly what tour guide and genealogist Ian Walker does for a living.
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