AmbITion Scotland is a digital development programme for the arts, heritage and cultural sector in Scotland over 2012-14, funded by The National Lottery via Creative Scotland. Want to get digitally fitter and smarter? Join in!
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Engaging with AmbITion Scotland means you can get support - via our Make:IT:Happen Fund, through finding student interns or academic partners and through participating with our learning, resources and networking activities
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By Ashley Smith Hammond
1 May 2013
Today, 1 May 2013, fifteen of Scotland’s arts, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funds to capitalise on opportunities presented by digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland’s Make:IT:Happen fund.
By Ashley Smith Hammond
25 April 2013
Top tweets and what we learned at Digital 2013
By Ashley Smith Hammond
11 April 2013
Did you know, in addition to the Make:IT:Happen fund, AmbITion Scotland is currently supporting travel and subsistence costs for internships.
By Hannah Rudman
4 February 2013
The future of the book. What are the opportunities around digital story telling and e-publishing? This on demand to watch masterclass will give an insight into some of the issues and opportunities raised by digital (or self) publishing. Whether you’re a reader, writer, author, publisher, or professional who creates or curates written work in the [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
1 February 2013
The second of five rounds of Make:IT:Happen funding awards have been announced. Fourteen arts, culture and heritage organisations will share nearly £90,000 worth of digital development funding.
By Ashley Smith Hammond
11 January 2013
AmbITion Scotland were pleased to be featured in the December 2012 Insights and Ideas Cafe event on the theme of Creative Carbon. Listen below! Want to learn more about the examples that Hannah mentions in her talk? Read our follow-up blog post Examples of Ecologically Sustainable Projects Powered by Digital. Insights & Ideas is [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
26 November 2012
If you are looking to host an internship at your arts, cultural or heritage organisation AmbITion Scotland have funding available to support interns’ travel and subsistence costs. Interested in accessing this? Contact AmbITion Scotland Project Manager, Ashley Smith Hammond.
By Hannah Rudman
16 November 2012
I can’t wait to take my next set of visitors to the National Museum of Scotland – yes because its revamp has created a fabulously immersive beautiful space and its interactive exhibits are engaging to the point where kids have to queue up behind me for hours – but also because now I can add [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
13 November 2012
So far the AmbITion Scotland team have produced a good bit of information around how the peer review process will work. We thought it was time to focus more on why we are running a peer review process at all.
By Ashley Smith Hammond
13 November 2012
As we look forward to the next round of funding deadlines, we’d like to tell the AmbITion Scotland community a bit more about the decision making panel; how the panellists were selected and how our decision making process works.
