Maritime UK South West has been awarded £85,000 from the Department of Transport as part of an initiative to grow economies in coastal areas around the UK.

The project creates a partnership between 4 further education colleges: Petroc (N Devon), Bournemouth and Poole College, South Devon College and City College Plymouth who will deliver a series of events to support businesses and also to help promote careers in maritime to young people across the region.

Maritime UK South West will lead the project and deliver a marketing campaign to reach young people including production of the first maritime careers magazine for the SW which will highlight the incredible range of careers opportunities in the region and highlight exemplar employees case studies.

The project is being supported by match funding from Maritime UK South West business partners and also includes higher education in the form of a partnership with with MLA College, ORE Catapult and University of Exeter and University of Plymouth and will work with local careers hubs, mentor networks and schools, creating a repository of maritime careers related collateral to be used in schools.

If you struggle to fill vacancies, have exemplar employees to promote via the project marketing campaign and magazine or would like to find out practical ways of increasing diversity within your workforce join the first quarterly project Business Meeting, 3-4.30, 10th Feb.

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