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Unlimited opportunities in the East of England
and have launched a Sustainability Centre
at their University Studies campus at West
Suffolk College. The college has also opened a
state-of-the-art STEM Innovation Campus in
Bury St Edmunds, with a growing pipeline of
students in engineering, sciences and digital
technology disciplines.
East Coast College, based in Lowestoft and
Great Yarmouth, is focused on giving young
people a clear pathway to professional
qualifications that will help them gain work in
the industry. Its new £11.7 million energy skills
campus in Lowestoft and its offshore energy
skills campus in Great Yarmouth offer courses
designed with the needs of local businesses
in mind.
SUPPORTING BUSINESSES
TO GROW
New Anglia LEP also lead and deliver,
in partnership with Suffolk Chamber of
Commerce, New Anglia Growth Hub which
enables businesses to access a range of
business support services from hundreds of
sources. The hub’s service is free and impartial
and can help access grants finance, start-up
support and international trade support.
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Unlimited opportunities in the East of England
POWERED BY OUR
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
More broadly, the energy industry can
draw on the world-leading research and
development expertise in our universities,
scientific institutions and digital technology
hubs. Those centres of excellence can help us
better understand the effect of the industry’s
work on the environment. They can also help
maximise the use of tools such as Artificial
Intelligence (AI), data analysis, and advanced
control systems to manage the integration of
our energy supply.
University of East Anglia (UEA), with its
campus next door to the Norwich Research
Park, is ranked 1st in the UK for its impact in
climate and environmental sciences. It is also
one of the top 10 UK universities for research
output. It works with multiple partners
across a range of disciplines and its Marine
Knowledge Exchange Network connects
1000+ cross-sector stakeholders.
The Centre of the Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has had
its headquarters in Lowestoft for the last
100 years. It is a world-leading research
organisation that specialises in marine
science, technology and environmental
policy, including monitoring and assessment.
In particular, it provides scientific and
policy advice to governments and other
international organisations on the
development of offshore renewable energy.
TACKLING THE CAUSES
OF CLIMATE CHANGE
AND RELATED
CHALLENGES SUCH AS
FOOD & ENERGY SECURITY.
UEA and Cefas have worked together since
the UEA’s founding in 1965 through the
Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use
of the Seas (CCSUS). They are particularly
focused on understanding and tackling
the causes of climate change and related
challenges such as food and energy security.
The University of Suffolk (UoS) has areas of
distinctiveness in sustainability and digital
futures. The Suffolk Sustainability Institute
(SSI) was formed in February 2018 in
collaboration with Suffolk County Council.
The SSI has three primary areas of interest:
sustainable energy, design and the built
environment and ecology and conservation.
The university’s Digital Futures Institute (DFI)
focuses on technology, creative digital and
future digital applications. At the heart of this
activity is the DigiTech Centre, a collaboration
between UoS and BT Group, with funding from
New Anglia LEP. Located within Innovation
Martlesham at Adastral Park, the centre
provides training in cutting-edge digital skills
for the communications technology sector, and
fuels high tech businesses requiring access to
a talented technology workforce.
Norfolk and Suffolk has a thriving network
of innovation hubs specialising in agri-food,
engineering and digital/ICT, as well as clean
energy. Of particular relevance to the
development of integrated Net Zero energy
systems is BT Group’s global R&D headquarters
at Adastral Park in Suffolk, because it is the
UK’s leading patent filer for AI (with 86 patent
families). BT’s reputation for applied research
has also helped it to establish the Innovation
Martlesham cluster of around 150 like minded
businesses, which employ around 3000
computer scientists and technicians on the park.
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