Applied Knowledge Exchange

The Scottish Funding Council has issued a new call for proposals to its Horizon Fund for knowledge exchange proposals addressing the needs of Scottish industry.
Resources available for projects in the latest call will be approximately £4m per annum for three years.
This year the call will focus on the key sectors identified in the Scottish Government’s [...]

Scotland’s first Zero Waste Plan has been published by the Scottish Government, setting out key actions, including new targets, to tackle the near 20 milion tonnes of waste produced by Scotland every year
It aims to drive change and inspire households, businesses, community groups, local authorities and the wider public sector to change the way they [...]

The Scottish Funding Council made an award of funding to Glasgow Caledonian University to directly support collaboration between Scottish small and medium sized enterprises and higher education institutions.
The Innovation Voucher Scheme is supported by the new SFC funding stream Strategic Priority Investments in Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) and offers each higher education institution funding [...]

Tourism Minister Jim Mather has championed the resilience of Scotland’s tourism industry.
He commended the sector’s robust response to challenges brought by the continued tough economic climate and recent disruptions to air travel.
Glasgow Caledonian University’s tourism experts in the Moffat Centre produces the Visitor Attraction Monitor, an annual report on the performance of Scotland’s visitor attractions, with analysis by [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange was at the S2S Social Enterprise Fair this week. We enjoyed chatting with Social Enterprises, other universities and inviduals about the growing social enterprise sector.
Our PgC Social Enterprise course was a hot topic of the day!
Find out more from wwww.gcu.ac.uk/business or give us a ring on 0141 331 3139 [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University spin-off company, Biopta, was used as a backdrop for an announcement by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, that more than £4.7 million of European funding is being invested in initiatives to support small and medium enterprises.
Biopta, which was set-up by Dr. David Bunton and Professor Chris Hillier in 2002, now employs 18 [...]

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Glasgow Caledonian University and Scottish Power are co-sponsoring an exciting event featuring John Piper, Chief Engineer on the JCB land speed record car, talking about Britain’s latest attempt at the world land speed record.
The lecture will concentrate on the Bloodhound car, but will also talk about how the challenger cars tend to be [...]

Sir Alex Ferguson returned to Glasgow Caledonian University this week.
The Manchester United manager, who received an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2001, held a masterclass on campus, met parents and children from the award winning Caledonian Club and talked tactics with the University’s football teams during the visit.
Read more at www.gcal.ac.uk

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Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of Health will lead a £3.3million European Commission-funded study aimed at tackling chronic foot and ankle pain including such diseases as Diabetic Foot.
Jim Woodburn, Professor of Rehabilitation at GCU, is working on the A-FOOTPRINT project to develop new orthotic devices to support or correct musculoskeletal problems.
See more about Jim’s work in this video [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University will be attending the KTP Scotland Awards Ceremony on 2nd February at the Doubletree Dunblane Hydro in Perthshire.
Glasgow Caledonian Uni has had several successful KTP partnerships with businesses including Novograf.
Current KTPs include those with Fearsom UK and If Only Holidays Limited.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is Europe’s leading programme helping business to improve their [...]