Innovation

National Rural Mental Health Forum

For 50 years, the mission of 'Change Mental Health' has remained the same: to help and support people affected by mental illness.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon officially opened a new training college in Glasgow to mark the beginning of Scottish Apprenticeship Week this week.

City Building’s new state-of-the-art training college in Springburn will house up to 250 apprentices across a range of disciplines, providing hands-on training opportunities in plumbing, furniture making, decorating and joinery.

The Scottish Government have launched a consultation about how Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) will contribute to the vision of marine environment being clean, healthy, safe, productive, diverse and managed to meet the long term needs of nature and people. 

Better Policies for Women in Food Systems

Fostering gender inclusion can have positive impacts on the food systems' triple challenge of ensuring food security and nutrition for a growing population, supporting the livelihoods of millions of people working in the food supply chain, and doing so in an environmentally sustainable way. Yet these positive synergies are often invisible as sex-disaggregated information is not collected.

Scotland’s NHS has become the first national health service in the United Kingdom to stop using an anaesthetic which has a high global warming potential.

Desflurane, used as an anaesthetic during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.

Sharing Sensory Stories Authors Lab

The Scottish Book Trust are a national charity that has been bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland since 1998. Each year they run 'Sharing Sensory Stories Authors Lab' and this year the lab is aimed at authors and storytellers with little to no previous experience in sensory storytelling.

SCCAN Annual Gathering 'Re-imagining the future' - Edinburgh

Are you ready to join forces with like-minded individuals and organisations working towards a sustainable future?

Come to the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) Annual Gathering 'Re-imagining the Future' in Edinburgh!

Scotland’s public sector is leading the way in using the purchase of goods and services to help people and communities.

A status review of the Scottish Governments Blue Economy Vision has just been published. The document considers how progress can be tracked, determines if significant and lasting change is occurring, and whether the Blue Economy approach is working.

The Rural Exchange provides an exciting new platform for people living and working across Scotland’s rural and island communities to have their voices heard in both research and policy-making.

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