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Industry leaders’ challenge to get creative with data
Four of Edinburgh’s leading cultural organisations are taking part in a £7.6 million initiative that could transform the city’s creative industries through innovative use of data. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, The List, Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and New Media Scotland have set Challenge Projects to drive innovation in the cultural sector and are…
Read MoreResearch partnership boost for City Region’s super-computer
The University of Edinburgh’s high-powered computing centre, the EPCC, is collaborating with US tech giant Nvidia to improve collaboration across the higher education sector. The EPCC is one of the first organisations to join Nvidia’s UK technology centre, aimed at supporting research in AI and data science. Mark Parsons, EPCC director and associate dean of…
Read MoreCivTech 4.0: Solve a challenge, build a business
As part of Digital Leaders Week 2019, the Scottish Government has announced two events taking place on June 19th in Glasgow, Tontine, and June 20th in Edinburgh at the CivTech studio. These engaging sessions offer an ideal setting for start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs to learn about the Scottish Government Digital Directorate’s award-winning CivTech Programme and…
Read MoreCity Region Deal’s Data Skills drive opens with schools visit to ‘Data Town’
An event for city school pupils took place on Monday 3 June to mark the launch of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal’s Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Skills Gateway. ‘Data Town’ was an interactive workshop bringing together young people from across the city region to learn about life in an increasingly data-driven world.…
Read MoreDrive to bring more data research talent to Edinburgh
The Data-Driven Innovation initiative is supporting a recruitment drive to attract academic talent to Edinburgh, to deliver more data-based innovation projects with industry partners. Researchers recruited through the Train@Ed Post-doctoral Fellowship will join academic teams at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with external partners across the private, public and third sectors. The DDI initiative…
Read MoreCentre enables data-driven research to thrive
The University of Edinburgh has launched a research centre to support data-led research innovation in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) will back the vital contributions researchers make to contemporary cultural debates and social issues and the study and understanding of the past. It will also…
Read MoreDon’t miss our women in data science event
Tues 11 June 2019 15:00 – 17:30 The University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum Join us on 11 June for an afternoon of discussion and debate on how best to support women working in computational technologies in research, teaching, and professional services. The Data-Driven Innovation initiative, led by the University of Edinburgh, aims to expand on…
Read MorePartnership boost for tech sector
The City Region’s tech sector is set to benefit from a collaboration between the Data-Driven Innovation initiative and Informatics Ventures. Through Scotland’s tech investment showcase, Engage Invest Exploit (EIE), the partnership will support the launch of more spin-out companies, attract startups, as well as support established tech businesses to seek investment. Scotland’s capital is the…
Read MoreTest centre aims to bring tidal technology on stream at high speed
A £2.4 million engineering research facility will seek to speed the development of materials and structures for tidal energy, transport and other industries. The FASTBLADE facility will test new materials within full scale structures such as tidal blades, plane components and bridge sections. It will be built by the University of Edinburgh and commercial partner…
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