Key Goals for the Centre of Excellence:

• Coordinate talent pipelines and deliver sustainable training.

• Address gaps in UK’s workforce talent.
• Support micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs).
• Collaborate with existing skills and training platforms.
• Build career awareness in medicines manufacturing.
• Employ a national approach to training.

• Ensure sustainability and financial viability post-funding.
• Lead in equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Align with The Life Sciences Vision (2021).

Funding Type:

Grant

Project Size:

Grant funding request can be up to £5.3 million.

Your Proposal:

The CoE should aim to:

• Engage with schools and further education.

• Offer apprenticeships and industry-ready talent.
• Provide modular and professional training.
• Support technical and vocational training.
• Attract talent from other sectors.
• Facilitate upskilling and reskilling.

• Develop or adopt a competency framework for training providers.

Specific Themes:

Your project must explore and address as many of the following as possible:

• Sustainable manufacturing.
• Regulatory skills.

• Bioprocessing, biologics, cell, and gene therapy manufacturing.
• Disruptive technologies.
• Digital and data skills.
• Automation and robotics.
• Cleanroom and GMP operations.

• Quality control and assurance.
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Exclusions:

Projects that won't be funded:

• Unrelated to medicines manufacturing skills.

• Infrastructure building projects.
• Dependent on export performance or domestic inputs usage.

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