Examples of Collaboration
Limerick for Engineering is an industry led initiative pioneering collaboration between industry and education and training providers. The primary goal of Limerick for Engineering is to increase the quality and quantity of engineering talent (apprentice, technicians and engineers) available. The group is a consortium of over 50 engineering companies located across the Mid-West and reaching into Galway, who work in partnership with the education institutions including LCETB, MIC, LIT and UL to ‘increase the quality and quantity of talent’. Similarly, the consortium of companies in Limerick for IT work with the education institutes to develop and deliver specific and targeted up-skilling courses (particularly using Springboard). The model is supplying a talent pipeline for businesses while allowing existing multinationals secure further operational mandates and activities, creating a
virtuous circle of emerging skills and jobs. These interventions have supported the creation of over 1,000 additional jobs in the past five years. The Shannon Consortium is an education partnership between UL, LIT, Mary Immaculate College and the Institute of Technology, Tralee. The Shannon Consortium is a dynamic group of institutions actively working together as equal partners to coordinate and develop specific innovations. The MASP supports these and other collaborative initiatives as innovative and collaborative efforts which will be the cornerstone to ensuring the sustainable growth and development of the Limerick- Shannon Metropolitan Area.
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c. It is an objective to support investment in Higher Education Institutes, Education and Training Board, apprenticeships and skills development in the Metropolitan Area as an enabler for jobs growth. This includes, inter alia, investment in LIT, UL, associated research institutes and facilities, the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board and initiatives applied to the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area under the Mid-West Regional Skills Forum and Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan (REP). d. It is an objective to support Limerick as a Learning City, and Limerick’s role in the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. It is also an objective to seek investment in initiatives under the Learning City initiative and to support the spread of such initiatives in the Metropolitan Area and wider region. e. It is an objective to support the delivery of a Regional Design Centre to provide the focus for linkages between third level institutes, private design companies and enterprise.
Education and Access to Talent a. It is an objective to support the existing educational facilities in the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area which includes UL, Mary Immaculate, LIT and the Shannon College of Hotel Management as critical drivers of economic development and the fostering of an innovative, knowledge-based economy for the Metropolitan Area. b. The MASP recognises that the Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan (REP) and the Mid-West Regional Skills Forum works collaboratively with all the agencies focusing on key actions and opportunities that the Limerick-Shannon Metropolitan Area can offer in terms of employment generation and the fostering of the knowledge based economy, in particular relating to clustering of expertise e.g. aviation, med-tech, agri-food etc. It is an objective that the Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan and the Mid-West Regional Skills Forum continue their work to deliver significant benefits to the Metropolitan Area and Mid-West.
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