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- Infrastructure Development Programme
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:Civil Engineering Contractors AssociationAmount awarded:£1,116,000Project summary:The project will develop a sustainable model for specialist infrastructure training provision, creating a structured framework that allows employees in the sector to develop the core skills that they require to operate in key roles in the sector where skills shortages currently exist. The end-state will be a self-sustaining training model that is developed by industry, for industry; providing targeted training that would not otherwise be readily available for companies in the sector.
- On-Site Assessment and Training (OSAT)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Finishes and Interiors SectorAmount awarded:£200,000Project summary:This project will reduce the skills gap and increase training expenditure by delivering a programme of enhancements to SME employers in the finishes and interiors sector to achieve L2 NVQs in appropriate occupation.
The benefits will primarily enhance collaborative working and increase value added per employee.
- OSAT NVQ for the dry lining and plastering sector
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Dry Lining and Plastering Training ForumAmount awarded:£180,000Project summary:The project will provide demand-led OSAT training for the finishes and interiors sector. This project will address the growing need for NVQs in the sector. It will engage 100 companies in the process, ensuring the inclusion of 25% disengaged employers who have not availed of CITB funding or grants in past 3 years. The delivery model for this project will assist in alleviating key skills issues for the sector and will provide a foundation for further funding which will have additional impact on the company/ individual.
- Reinforced Concrete Frame upskilling
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Learning resources, Sectors and roles, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and courses, Small employer supportProject lead:ConstructAmount awarded:£154,788Project summary:The project will work specifically with SMEs with less than 200 PAYE employees to:
- Promote the introduction of a new level 2 vocational qualification for Formwork Erector/Striker
- Upskill operatives to achieve currently available level 2 qualifications relevant to the RC Frame Sector
- Create a skills and competence pathway model to demonstrate how an individual can become trade qualified through an apprenticeship.
- Supply chain school – strategic partnership
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Small employer support, Leadership and managementProject lead:SKANSKA - on behalf of supply chain partnersAmount awarded:£2,510,496Project summary:The project delivers a 5 year strategic collaboration with the CITB as a trusted advisor on skills issues within the sector to significantly increase the level of training within the supply chain and help to promote and enable innovation.
A longer term relationship will allow the School Partners to plan more strategically, innovate, foster collaboration and offer an opportunity to work with our supply chains to both close the skills gap and address skills shortages.
After the project industry will have access to a free online learning platform where they can undertake skills diagnostics and access knowledge / training under the subjects of offsite, sustainability and BIM.
Contractors will be able, through membership, to access aggregated and anonymous data on the performance of their supply chain members that engage with the learning platform. Over 20,000 learning interventions will have been delivered to the construction workforce.
- Enhancing Higher Education Resources and Engagement for High Value Construction Recruitment (commission)
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:CECA WalesAmount awarded:£241,500Project summary:This project aims to provide a set of resources and develop industry-HE partnership initiatives as a response to the CITB’s call for commissioned employer-HE collaboration.
The project will provide contextualised learning through immersive and experiential learning opportunities to improve accessibility to practical learning.
A sustainable HEI-employer network will be established in two regions (Wales and Yorkshire) to establish best practice in collaborative partnerships, which will be a model for UK-wide scalability.
A set of physical and virtual resources will be developed that will specifically address three principal target groups:
- Level 3 school/college leavers
- Existing employees
- Graduates/Higher Diplomates from non-cognate disciplines.
- Increasing capacity and capability to deliver immersive learning in construction industry (Immersive Learning)
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Company)Amount awarded:£320,500Project summary:Collaborative, standardised industry-wide immersive learning framework
Open-source authoring tool for users to create VR learning content>Learning modules authored by each employer partner and delivered to employees
Case studies developed from 5x strands to show impact / benefits of immersive learning.
- Project pHAEton
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Digital and new technology, Learning resources, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Hire Association EuropeAmount awarded:£225,960Project summary:The project will develop a web-based content creation platform and community space that allows users to generate their own learning experiences for virtual and augmented reality.
The system will use a simple drag and drop interface and will include a learner management system that will allow learning experiences to be tracked, monitored and quality assured.
The platform will host VR content developed by HAE from other projects. Content will be accessible in 3D via a computer screen and in PDF. The platform will be hosted by HAE, will be available to use by industry and funded by means of a low-cost pricing model.
After the project, industry will have access to a platform which allows for anyone to create VR and AR learning experiences in a simple and intuitive way. - Increasing capacity and capability to deliver immersive learning in construction industry (Immersive Learning) 2
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Funding topic:Digital and new technology, New qualifications and courses, Learning resourcesProject lead:AMRCAmount awarded:£330,500Project summary:
Collaborative, standardised industry-wide immersive learning framework
Open-source authoring tool for users to create VR learning content>Learning modules authored by each employer partner and delivered to employees
Case studies developed from 5x strands to show impact / benefits of immersive learning.
- Digital Transformation through Leaders (Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Leadership and management, Small employer supportProject lead:Setting out for constructionAmount awarded:£292,936Project summary:The project delivers skills through a flexible model that allows leaders to engage in a way most appropriate to their needs.
- This model allows leaders to select and implement the elements of digital construction most beneficial to their organisation through a menu of open training courses, in-house support and coaching, seminars, webinars, on-line courses, written resources, an online diagnostic tool, open source teaching and training materials and by connecting construction companies to relevant experts.
- The project will target employers in the civil engineering sector in Scotland with post-project GB and wider sector scalability. It will upskill industry trainers and mentors to ensure the sustainability of the project.
- After the project participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. SOFC will continue to offer the service commercially, whilst making all training content freely available so others can also do the same. The trainers and mentors will continue to benefit their companies and supply chains.