Applied Knowledge Exchange

STV chief executive Rob Woodward was the guest speaker inspiring Glasgow’s businesses at Dunning’s Communications Breakfast this morning. Rob outlined his ‘three Cs’ for STV – Connectivity, Community and Creativity. He described the opportunity for broadcasters to engage with consumers on multiple platforms – mobile, web and TV – by creating more local content and [...]

GCU’s engineering students gathered to hear from FMC Technologies about potential careers in the oil and gas sector. FMC Technologies hosted a recruitment stand on campus to encourage students into engineering. The global technology leader for the subsea industry recently launched a recruitment drive. Increasing exploration and production spending by FMC’s customers around the world supports [...]

GCU is hosting an Open Evening Lecture featuring keynote speaker Danny McStay, FMC Technologies, to launch the FMC Technologies Subsea Optoelectronics Laboratory at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). The growing global demand for oil and gas is driving producers to increase the overall efficiency of the production process and to operate in more extreme conditions with minimal [...]

A happy GCU client working with our School of Engineering and Computing on the iCEaid mobile app project. Lifesapps CEO, Andrew Mulford said: “The support given by GCU was outstanding, both in the professionalism of their engagement with us and the thoroughness of their testing regime. They understood the app almost immediately and, due to [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is on Stand 21 at City Week, the global forum for senior members of the international financial services community. GCU is internationally recognised for innovative programmes that combine academic and business excellence with practical experience and globally recognised professional accreditations including: CIPD; Institute of Risk Management, Chartered Insurance Institute, Institute of [...]

Hundreds of people with dementia have spend the day at Hampden Park as part of the football reminiscence project.  The project is part of ongoing research by Glasgow Caledonian University. Click on the link to view the short video http://news.stv.tv/scotland/280005-dementia-patients-benefit-from-football-memories/ (please note that the video will start after the short advert is played).

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange has published the Winter edition of Exchange magazine. The magazine focuses on recent business and knowledge transfer activity at GCU. This edition contains details of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and our work with the energy sector, food and drink companies and our Business Academies with companies. For more information, [...]

FMC Technologies is to create 240 new research and development and manufacturing jobs in Scotland, many located at its site in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. The expansion is being supported with £2.5m in Scottish government grants. Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing said: “This decision is testament to the quality and skills of our workforce in engineering and [...]

Increasingly the European Commission is focusing its resources on exploring new avenues through which research and knowledge transfer can respond directly to the needs of society. The term that it has coined for this new conceptual framework is SOCIAL INNOVATION. GCU’s head of European Programmes, Mark Anderson, brought together colleagues in an open forum session [...]

Sustainable Food & Drink, a free and innovative programme that helps Scottish food and drink companies increase their competitiveness through better environmental performance, ran a webinar analysing how supermarkets were tackling climate change. The Sustainable Food & Drink team, based at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Caledonian Environment Centre, focused on the supermarkets’ key green areas: operational [...]