The Scottish Government in the USA

First Minister John Swinney has announced the Programme for Government 2024-25.     It lays out the Scottish Government’s priorities and actions to deliver a modern, prosperous, greener Scotland.     One of our four key priorities is protecting the planet, including plans to:  🟢 progress a renewables revolution  🟢 support decarbonisation   🟢 reverse biodiversity decline     Read more 👇  https://lnkd.in/dZ7d-4g8

Thank you to Stewart D. McLaurin for hosting a visit to the White House with Coinneach MacLeod, also known as the Hebridean Baker, our Head of Office Colin Gray, and Kirstin Gamble Bridier and Cherie Burton from The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, in celebration of #ScottishConnections in the USA.

A US Dental Software company, Planet DDS, has invested £10 million in Scotland's technology industry. With help from Scottish Development International, Planet DDS has opened a technology development centre in Glasgow. Scotland’s track record in innovation and growth are appealing to outside investors and make it an ideal location for companies to expand their businesses and operations. Read more below 👇 https://lnkd.in/dEJAqKPp

With its ambitious climate targets setting the pace for other nations, Scotland has created one of the best-connected and collaborative energy clusters in the world 🌎 This means your business can instantly benefit from our established industry networks through knowledge sharing, research and best practice 🤝 Think opportunities for innovation, manufacturing and supply chain development in floating wind. Think Scotland 👉 https://ow.ly/2y4w50T9U2a #ScotlandIsNow #OffshoreWind

Scottish Enterprise are celebrating record results for Scotland’s economy! Between April 2023 and March 2024, they supported businesses to unlock £2.15 billion in planned exports and secured 16,700 new jobs. Read more on the economic development agency's annual results 👇  https://lnkd.in/edKCxEs6 

Keep reading below to find out how the Scottish Development International team is attracting US businesses to Scotland, creating high-quality jobs and investing in talent 👇🇺🇸

Today sees the start of the Paralympics where over 4,000 athletes come together from around the world. They'll compete in 22 sports across iconic venues in Paris, including the Eiffel Tower! Best of luck to everyone taking part 🏅 And here are a few athletes from Scotland we'll be keeping an eye on 👀 Melanie Woods is a 23 year old PE teacher who became paralysed from the waist down after a cycling accident in 2018. She began training in a racing wheelchair with a local club and with a lot of hard work found herself at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics and now Paris! Fin Graham fell in love with cycling aged four and started competing when he was seven! As a youngster he even raced across Scotland 💪 Gordon Reid was a keen footballer and tennis player as a child. He started playing wheelchair tennis in 2005 and has never looked back 🎾 Following a childhood accident, Sammi Kinghorn was paralysed after an accident on a family farm. With incredible determination, she's climbed the sporting ladder and is now Britain’s fastest-ever female wheelchair racer. Nathan Macqueen is an all-round sportsman who played rugby before he was involved in a serious motorbike accident. He's won multiple medals at European and World level. #ParalympicsGB #Paris2024 #Paralympics

Scotland’s global identity is grounded in relationships and people-to-people links. We have a strong reputation as a welcoming place to live and work, study, visit and do business. The 2022 Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands Index ranked Scotland as a top-twenty country on five of its six dimensions of reputation (governance, culture, people, tourism, and immigration and investment).     Discover more on Scotland’s reputation and influence in our International Strategy 👇  https://lnkd.in/eV4H8eh7 

Sonja Mitchell is the founder of Jump Ship Brewing Ltd, a company that brews world-class alcohol-free beer in Scotland. We asked her why she became a brewer and why she chose Scotland… “I came up with the idea for Jump Ship because no one else was producing the beer that I wanted to drink! I decided it was up to me to have a go. I spent a lot of time trying to talk myself out of it... was it crazy to launch a business when I had three children and a busy life to juggle? But then I thought if people like me didn't have a go at launching a business, then who would? I made Scotland my home 14 years ago and fell in love with the food and drink scene here. I ended up drinking German lager when I first switched to alcohol-free beer as that was the best I could find. It felt wrong that I was being forced to make a different choice when I was so used to drinking amazing locally brewed craft beer. My mission when I launched Jump Ship was to brew world-class alcohol-free beer, right here in Scotland, and that hasn't changed. It took nearly a year to perfect our first beer, Yardarm, and I wept into more than one failed brew. Finding the right brewing partner was tricky, and then replicating the quality of my trial recipe took several unsuccessful attempts before we finally cracked both flavour and fermentation. So, imagine my delight when Yardarm was awarded best no and low alcohol lager in the World Beer Awards 2021, beating global brands in the process. Not bad for a wee start-up from Edinburgh! 🎉 The reason I kept going was because I loved the beer we'd developed so much, and I knew that it deserved to reach a bigger audience. In January this year, we opened the doors of our new purpose-designed brewery in Midlothian. I have to pinch myself every day when I come into work, seeing that row of shiny tanks and realising how my dream to brew my own world-class alcohol-free beer in Scotland has become a reality.” #ScotlandBeer #ScotlandFoodAndDrink #ScotlandZeroBeer #ZeroBeer #NonAlcoholicBeer Scotland Food & Drink

Recognized as one of Scotland's burgeoning regional hydrogen hubs, Chapelcross embodies vast potential in the realms of low-carbon energy, storage, and transportation, alongside abundant avenues for research and development 🔋🔬 Bolstered by its proficient local workforce, robust infrastructure, and well-established supply chain, Chapelcross emerges as the prime destination for executing extensive and complex hydrogen initiatives ⚡ Think specialist hydrogen hub. Think Scotland💡 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/Rzee50T3Kp7 #ScotlandIsNow #Hydrogen The Scottish Government in the USA Michael V. Cappiello