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Oxfordshire Advanced Skills Equipment

  • Money C

    Total Project Cost: £1.3m

  • Money C

    LGF Awarded: £0.53m

  • Idea C

    Status: Outputs completed with outcomes on track

Oxfordshire’s ‘innovation ecosystem’ is world-leading, with robotics, power engineering and space science just some of these new and emerging sectors. The Culham Science Centre-based Oxfordshire Advanced Skills (OAS) have utilised funding secured by OxLEP to support the future career prospects of ambitious apprentices across these specialisms – and beyond.

OxLEP secured Local Growth Fund investment towards OAS’s smart factory system, the Cyber-Physical Factory. The investment is working to enhance the experience for OAS’s cohort of apprentices, each training towards significant careers in engineering-related companies through OAS’s apprenticeship provision.

The new addition offers further top-of-the-range engineering equipment to support OAS’s apprentices and their learning experiences.

Delivery Partner: UKAEA

Oas Centre

Project impacts by 2025:

  • Group 747@2x

    Increase in young people gaining the skills needed to enter Oxfordshire’s innovation ecosystem

  • Group 747@2x

    40 new learners assisted (in courses leading to a full qualification)