GET INVOLVED email your thoughts, comments and questions to
info@talentscotland.com
TalentScotland / 3
FACTS & FIGURES WINTER SPORTS
Scotland has ski centres at Cairngorm,
Glenshee, Glencoe, the Lecht, and the Nevis Range
150,000 2,000
ABERDEEN More than
NORTH SEA people are employed by more than Oil reserves stand at 2 billion tonnes companies in the oil and gas sector
77 years DUNBLANE
Hometown of Andy Murray, first British male player to win Wimbledon for
GRANGEMOUTH
Established in 1871, Grangemouth is the oldest manufacturing chemicals site in Scotland
ELECTRICITY
• In 2011, renewable electricity amounted to around 35% of Scottish consumption
THE SALTIRE PRIZE
GLASGOW Home to the
Commonwealth Games from
23 July– 3 August 2014
GLASGOW
The University of Glasgow has produced
five
Nobel laureates in chemistry
EDINBURGH
The Edinburgh Bio Quarter is establishing Scotland as one of the world’s
top 10 centres for biomedical commercialisation WIND ENERGY
• A quarter of all Europe’s wind energy crosses the Scottish landmass and its surrounding seas
• £10 million – The Saltire Prize is the world’s largest innovation prize for technological advances in wave and tidal energy
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16