Our Demonstrator Projects

We champion Venturefest Scotland, attracting 1000+ ambitious growth businesses, entrepreneurs, investors & innovators.

GCOSI has directly contributed to sponsorship, exhibitor and delegate leads for the annual innovation summit, Venturefest Scotland.

GCOSI also facilitate and co-ordinate a series of some 20 year-long smaller Venturefest-associated, innovation events across Scotland. This model is now being replicated throughout the UK, following the lead set by Scotland.

We map science & innovation into regional economic propositions to better 'story-tell' our offer & investment opportunities.

GCOSI devised and developed SciShorts for the European New Media & TV Awards – short videos filmed on mobile phones to engage public audiences with research. The film competition model has since been adopted by the University of Glasgow and University of Groningen to showcase Impact with Excellence.

GCOSI devised and lead on the first inclusive enterprise education youth strand for any Venturefest.

Working in partnership with Young Scot and SEPA, VentureJam challenged young people to co-design a digital response to green issues. The program was nominated for a National Air Quality Award in 2016.

GCOSI brought the OPEN AIR LABORATORIES project to Scotland securing a full time Community Scientist to inspire, educate, train and support a new generation of citizen scientists in the environment.

OPAL partnerships have now been established with community-based groups across Glasgow. OPAL have been involved in several community and public engagement events with various partners –including the RSPB Garden Wildlife Festival, Castlemilk adult learning events, Cryptic art installation, survey tutorial videos and CPD sessions in Glasgow and Lanarkshire schools.

GCOSI drove Glasgow's European Capital of Innovation (iCapital) bid in 2016 resulting in Glasgow being named a finalist city.

Glasgow is leading the concept development of an iCapital ‘alumni network’ of innovative cities across Europe, a key part of our bid, tapping into the regions’ experience in developing effective partnerships.

GCOSI are a chief advisory organisation on a European Horizon 2020 project, ACCOMPLISSH exploring how to valorise social sciences and humanities R&D to support innovation with impact.

GCOSI set the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous hand hygiene lesson in multiple venues.

3,089 children from 36 Glasgow primary schools participated to achieve the record. And over 160 student nurses from Glasgow Caledonian University who were qualified in hand hygiene volunteered to work with teachers from each of the participating primary schools to deliver the 40-minute lesson.

GCOSI’s social media campaign, Science Snaps, is a growing collection of images or photographs representing Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Design, Maths, Medicine, and Social Sciences (STEAMMS) in action taken by people who live, work or play in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Photographs and interpretation are shared through GCOSI’s social media channels, and periodically, judges select prize-winning submissions. Jessops UK have partnered in delivering this campaign, offering regular prizes and sharing submissions through their prominent Glasgow city-centre high street shop window.

GCOSI provided creative expertise for the BBC World Service radio series, 'Scots Who Changed The World'.

It was the most listened to programme on the World Service when published, from an audience of some 16 million monthly world-wide listeners.

GCOSI supports the development of ‘science’ themes running through the annual book festival, Aye Write! The team here helped organisers pull together a number of chairs for sessions with speakers and audiences in 2016 and 2017 that covered subjects as diverse as light, architecture, space exploration, computing, genetics, evolution, the mind, and science fiction.