Edinburgh Napier University students win Gold in DMA’s Breakthrough Award

One of the most prestigious awards for young talent trying to get a foothold in the data and marketing industry has been won by Jez Carr and Alex Schotten from Edinburgh Napier University. The campaign ‘Conscious Cup-ling’ won this year’s DMA Breakthrough Award, sponsored by PwC. The winners of the award was revealed during the DMA Awards night. Each year aspiring creatives battle it out for the chance to impress some of the biggest names in marketing by working on a live creative brief, for a real client or business.…

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£149k for bid to use hydrogen from renewables to produce gin

Edinburgh Napier will play a key role in an investigation into the feasibility of hydrogen as a fuel to decarbonise the distilling process. The HySpirits project has been awarded £148,600 by the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to conduct the study at The Orkney Distillery. The project will investigate the development of a thermal fluid heater system to operate with hydrogen as the combustion fuel within the distilling process. This system will remove the need to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas. HySpirits brings together…

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