Research & InnovationScottish education has a worldwide reputation for excellence in teaching and research and each of the international offices undertakes work to help facilitate and develop further research and innovation opportunities abroad.Recent examples include funding which was secured in Germany to facilitate a bilateral research collaboration in the fields of hydrogen, life sciences and biotechnology, as well as capacity building work around the Horizon Europe programme.In Brussels we have also worked to ensure Scotland is able to retain a role in European organisations which facilitate research, development and innovation collaboration such our membership of the Vanguard Initiative - a network of some 30 European regions.