Conversations On Connecting The North East Into Scottish Academia

Session Overview

Opportunity North East (ONE) is partnering with CodeBase to deliver a regional tech ecosystem event series: Founders' Fireside. Each Month these sessions will bring together local businesses and stakeholders to explore relevant topics for people working in innovation. These sessions will facilitate insightful conversations, broaden our networks, and help raise awareness of the resources available for organisations in the North East.
This May, ONE and CodeBase are delighted to partner with Interface to bring you "Getting Business-Academic Collaborations and Funding Right". Interface are based regionally throughout Scotland and connect organisations and academics. Interface works with organisations of all sizes, in all sectors. to match them to Scotland's world-leading academic expertise to help them grow.
With connections into all Scottish universities, research institutes and colleges, Interface has an established and efficient process that will save time and money in identifying and accessing academic expertise, research, technologies, specialist facilities and funding. Gillian Hambley, Interface's Business Engagement Executive for the North East region will be facilitating this fireside conversation between Kelly Fraser (KTP North), Corrin Fox (Kionnalo) and Dr Heather Morgan (University of Aberdeen). We're delighted to bring together this brilliant group of experts from across industry, academia, and funding to discuss the wide diversity of opportunities available to businesses in the North East.
Over the hour-long session, they will be covering topics such as:
- Collaborative work bringing projects to life
- Funding including Innovation Vouchers and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- Nationwide support available to people working in the North East
This session is open to people based in the North East of Scotland who want to unlock the collaborative potential of Scotland's universities, research institutes and colleges.
Speaker bios
Gillian Hambley, Interface
Gillian is the Business Engagement Executive for Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Based in the region, Gillian is keen to support local businesses by matching them to the right academic expertise and specialist facilities across Scotland's universities, colleges and research institutes to help them innovate. Following studies in Design for Industry and E-Business, Gillian has over ten years of business support experience, knowledge of funding streams and support agencies, making her well placed to assist businesses large and small to continur their development and growth aspirations.
Kelly Fraser - KTP Centre
Kelly Fraser is the KTP Centre Manager art North of Scotland KTP Centre. She has a wealth of experience guiding businesses through their KTP journeys, with an incredible success rate of having grants approved.
Avriel Skolnick - Kionnali
Avriel Skolnick is the founder of Kionnalo, an exciting (Aberdeenshire-based) startup. Avriel will be able to share her insights about going through the Innovation Voucher process, as well as collaborating on various alternative academic projects.
Dr Heather Morgan - University of Aberdeen
Dr Heather Morgan is the Dean for Enterprise & Innovation, Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. Heather has supported numerous placement opportunities over the years and is now promoting engagement with businesses and other organisations, for commercial and societal impact across the regional innovation ecosystem.

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