2016 Crucible Celebrated

Glasgow welcomes Scottish Crucible 2016

Scottish Crucible participants and leaders have been officially welcomed to Glasgow by a civic reception at Glasgow City Chambers hosted by Baillie, Margot Clark.

The civic reception formed part of the third “lab” of the Scottish Crucible 2016 programme, hosted at the Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde on 23^rd and 24^th June. With a focus on Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (KE), the lab featured a host of expert speakers including Professor Billy Kerr, Associate Deputy Principal, University of Strathclyde; Dr Philip Orr, Managing Director, Synaptec; and Dr Steven Breslin, CEO, Glasgow Science Centre.

Following the programme, participants are further encouraged to pursue novel interdisciplinary collaborations via submissions to the ‘Scottish Crucible Project Fund’.  More than 50 pilot research projects involving multiple teams of Scottish Crucible alumni have thus far been supported since 2009. Successful project teams from this year’s programme will be announced at the annual Royal Society of Edinburgh awards’ ceremony in September 2016.

Scottish Crucible 2016 participants came from the Universities of Aberdeen, Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Queen Margaret, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde, and West of Scotland – as well as from an environmental consultancy, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, and the Fraunhofer Centre.  They join the growing Scottish Crucible Network comprising participants from the last 8 years of the programme.  An opportunity for wider Alumni collaboration and exchange is scheduled for next month with the “Scottish Crucible Forum” due to take place at the Glasgow Science Centre