Janice 
CV for Nataliia Migotina For more information contact Janice@companyconnecting.com Competency Summary 17+ years of experience of delivering enterprise scale solutions in SAP HCM focused on Organizational Management (OM), Personal Administration (PA) & Time Management (TM) SAP skills and achievements: Implementation and maintenance of SAP ERP HCM – set-up and configuration Administrative staff (management of actions … Read more
Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation Awards opens on 22nd August 2022. Definitely worth taking a look. The link for the briefing event is below. If you are successful then the award is £50K, plus business support etc. The link is https://ktn-uk.org/events/women-in-innovation-awards-2022-23-briefing-event
The Scottish Inward Investment Catalyst Fund is for companies / organisations with their headquarters outside Scotland. It is launched by Scottish Government and Interface and offers funding awards of up to £10,000 for organisations to partner with Scottish academia. Projects must align with the nine key opportunity areas: Energy Transition Decarbonisation of Transport Software and … Read more
The virtual event The Best Countries to Create a Company in Europe will take place on May 31 (free event) and it brings together freelancers, remote workers, experts, institutions and successful entrepreneurs who will share their experiences of launching companies in different countries. It’s run by Digi Nomads and should be interesting given the changes in the … Read more
EIE offers start ups and scale up help to make them investor ready. It is delivered by the Bayes Centre, Edinburgh Universities innovation hub for data science and artificial intelligence. It is run as a competition and culminates in a showcase event of up to 50 tech companies pitching for funding. The EIE site provides … Read more
Scottish Edge is a competition to support Scotland’s innovative and entrepreneurial companies. It generally runs twice a year and has three categories of awards: Scottish Edge: for early stage companies and social enterprises. Awards up to £100K split by loan/grant Young Edge: all directors must be under 30. Awards up to £10K Wild Card Edge: … Read more
UK Research and Innovation is sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It is made up of 9 councils that work together to support innovation in the UK. The councils include Innovate UK and Research England, as well as councils for: Arts and Humanities Research (AHRC) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research (BBSRC) … Read more
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations provides support to the voluntary sector. The site contains useful information for voluntary organisations including guides to digital services, skills remote working etc. It also has a searchable funding page which lists over 700 funds many of which are open to non charitable organisations. There are some really interesting … Read more
My startup articles are not published according to a direct time line. I will cover the full journey, but having recently completed the Pathfinder Accelerator run by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) it seemed timely to write about my experience. There is a strong connection between my experience on Pathfinder and last week’s article by … Read more
Search for business support services in Scotland – this is a great link to a huge number of business services e.g. graduate placement scheme, grants, energy, self help guides etc. You can also search by geography and sector. Good insight to what is happening and what is available currently in Scotland