Glasgow Science Centre is holding its second online festival 19-21 May, and everyone aged 10 and upwards is invited to attend. Curious About Innovation will celebrate the innovative spirit in all of us, and how that spirit can change the world. The three-day programme of live talks, interviews, games and resources will reveal how technology and innovation are solving global challenges. The festival is being delivered with support from the Inspiring Science Fund provided by Wellcome, UKRI and BEIS with additional support from JP Morgan, Mathworks and University of Strathclyde. Top innovators from Scotland and around the world have signed up to take part. Experts from organisations like Rolls Royce, AAC Clyde Space, the National Oceanographic Centre, IBM and the Scottish Space School have all signed up.
Exhibition is out of this world Enrico Sacchetti, who is based between the US and Italy was originally a fashion photographer. Now his images appear in major scientific and technology publications including New Scientist, Wired UK, Scientific American and the Smithsonian magazine. A selection of his work will feature at GSC’s Curious About Innovation festival later this month after his recent Dark Matter and Beyond the Invisible exhibitions in London, Dublin, Milan and Rome. “I’m working on a project to photograph high-energy physics research facilities around the world,” he says adding that he’s driven by his curiosity in what he describes as “cathedrals of knowledge”, research facilities in remote locations with some of the largest structures ever built searching for the smallest elements in our universe.
On Thursday, Scotland goes to the polls to vote in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Construction News explores what the major parties propose on construction related issues.
The Scottish National Party is currently leading a minority government. Nicola Sturgeon’s party has 61 of the 129 MSPs in Holyrood Palace, but it has struck agreements with the Scottish Greens and the Liberal Democrats, which have five MSPs each, to pass budgets. At the last election in 2016, the Scottish Conservatives became the official opposition with Scottish Labour chalking up their worst performance since devolution.
Much of the focus on this election is how Scotland can bounce back after the lockdowns and tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic.