Knowledge exchange
UHI’s Knowledge Exchange Team provides support and advice for UHI staff and businesses in the Highlands and Islands alike in all areas of knowledge transfer such as developing new products, processes and business ideas.
- Local events bringing academic experts to businesses across the Highlands and Islands
- Personal consultations giving free, ongoing and impartial advice
- Full search for relevant expertise within all of Scotland’s Higher Education, and Research Institutes (via www.Interface-online.org.uk)
- Funding to bring academics and businesses together to discuss potential collaborative projects
- Funding to conduct short feasibility studies
- Signposting to additional sources of funding
For more information on knowledge exchange services for UHI staff please contact Joe Irvine - 01463 279 287.
UNICREDS
UHI is involved in UNICREDS (University Collaboration in Regional Development Spaces) a large three year project with five other European countries which aims to demonstrate how the collaboration between universities, industry and the public sector can help transform peripheral regions with underperforming economies into knowledge rich regions with the resource and capacity for excellence in research and innovation.
The project brings together thirteen partners from regions of five European countries which share similar characteristics relative to the rest of their countries, for example remoteness from major centres, population demographics and reliance on declining traditional industries. The project enables the partners to share experience and develop good practices into a transferable model for regional economic development which will be integrated into regional, national and European policy.
