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Medicines Discovery
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How do we supercharge and sustain skills in UK Life Sciences?
Medicines Discovery Catapult is reshaping drug discovery for patient benefit by transforming great UK science into better treatments through partnership. The life sciences industry is critical to the UK’s health, wealth, and resilience. Attracting, recruiting, training, and retaining a skilled workforce is key to ongoing success in this critical sector.
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Medicines Discovery
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How do we supercharge and sustain skills in UK Life Sciences?
Medicines Discovery Catapult is reshaping drug discovery for patient benefit by transforming great UK science into better treatments through partnership. The life sciences industry is critical to the UK’s health, wealth, and resilience. Attracting, recruiting, training, and retaining a skilled workforce is key to ongoing success in this critical sector.
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Energy Systems
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What does the future hold for UK jobs in the energy sector?  
The transition to Net Zero means there is a need to train over 1 million people in the coming 20-30 years. Similarly, urgent action is required to encourage a more diverse pool of entrants into the heating workforce, where women account for only 2% and those with ethnic minority backgrounds make up 5%.
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Offshore Renewable Energy
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How are offshore renewables driving local skills?
The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has adopted a community engagement strategy that focuses resources and expertise in support of STEM education in local communities, delivering impactful social benefit.
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Satellite Applications
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Where do space and skills collide?
Satellite Applications Catapult’s ambition is to grow the space sector across the whole of the UK and work alongside the UK Space Agency to understand and close related skills gaps. The Catapult also works with the sector to ensure employers can attract, develop, and retain a skilled workforce.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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How can the UK drive cell and gene therapy skills?
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is placing the UK at the centre of a global cell and gene therapy industry. It is committed to the advancement of cell and gene therapies and has a vision for a thriving industry delivering life-changing advanced therapies to the world.
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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We’re facing a global compound semiconductor skills shortage: what now?
The vision of Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult is for the UK to become a global leader in developing and commercialising new applications for compound semiconductors. The Catapult is working with partners to identify skills gaps and future shortages, and to deliver solutions that build a specialised workforce, putting the UK at the forefront of a global compound semiconductor market.
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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We’re facing a global compound semiconductor skills shortage: what now?
The vision of Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult is for the UK to become a global leader in developing and commercialising new applications for compound semiconductors. The Catapult is working with partners to identify skills gaps and future shortages, and to deliver solutions that build a specialised workforce, putting the UK at the forefront of a global compound semiconductor market.
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High Value Manufacturing
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How can the UK utilise its best industrial manufacturing talent?
High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s vision for UK manufacturing takes into account the lack of available skilled workforce, from research through to industrial exploitation. The Catapult aims to boost the UK’s industrial transformation talent pool by removing barriers to opportunities for upskilling and reskilling in priority areas including digitalisation, electrification, advanced materials and net zero.
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High Value Manufacturing
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How can the UK utilise its best industrial manufacturing talent?
High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s vision for UK manufacturing takes into account the lack of available skilled workforce, from research through to industrial exploitation. The Catapult aims to boost the UK’s industrial transformation talent pool by removing barriers to opportunities for upskilling and reskilling in priority areas including digitalisation, electrification, advanced materials and net zero.
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Connected Places
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How do we address skills needs in transport innovation?
The Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, working alongside key partners to accelerate innovation in the places where we live, work and travel. By assessing, predicting, mapping and delivering much-needed skills for the future, the Catapult is helping to overcome emerging gaps which threaten to impact success in this area of national importance.
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Digital
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£555 million investment raised after engaging with Digital Catapult
Digital Catapult works with over 70 investors through the FutureScope acceleration programme to support UK innovators across AI, virtual & augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and distributed systems to work with strategic sectors of the UK economy to build private sector confidence.
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Digital
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The future is digital, so how do we prepare?
UK skills development should focus on hard technical skills, as well as employability and transferable skills such as business modelling, innovation, sales, marketing, and design. As part of the Digital Catapult led Made Smarter Digital Supply Chain Hub...
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Medicines Discovery
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Bolstering the North West’s position as a life science powerhouse
Medicines Discovery Catapult is driving regional growth in the North West of England, supporting the region’s fast-growing and increasingly significant life science industry.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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Upskilling the UK to take full advantage of the potential of cell and gene therapies
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is a global leader in skills in a rapidly growing sector. Through a range of initiatives such as the world’s first apprenticeship programme for cell and gene therapies and a national training network it now supports a sector employing almost 7,000 people from across the UK, with the workforce predicted to grow to over 15,000 by 2026.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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Upskilling the UK to take full advantage of the potential of cell and gene therapies
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is a global leader in skills in a rapidly growing sector. Through a range of initiatives such as the world’s first apprenticeship programme for cell and gene therapies and a national training network it now supports a sector employing almost 7,000 people from across the UK, with the workforce predicted to grow to over 15,000 by 2026.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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Delivering safer advanced therapies, faster and at lower cost through technology and process innovation
At its core, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is an innovation and technology company. Its work with industry in the development of novel processes and analytical techniques for cell and gene therapy manufacture has supported significant investment into startup businesses as well as attracting international manufacturers such as Rentschler to invest in manufacturing in the UK.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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Delivering safer advanced therapies, faster and at lower cost through technology and process innovation
At its core, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult is an innovation and technology company. Its work with industry in the development of novel processes and analytical techniques for cell and gene therapy manufacture has supported significant investment into startup businesses as well as attracting international manufacturers such as Rentschler to invest in manufacturing in the UK.
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Cell and Gene Therapy
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Establishing Stevenage as a global leader for cell and gene therapies
UK Government invested £72m in the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult centre in Stevenage. This has led to the creation of one of the leading cell and gene therapy clusters globally and brought £1.5bn to the region through the 45 companies that are now investing there.
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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Identifying new opportunities to increase international trade in telecoms
In 2020 Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult identified sizeable markets for the UK compound semiconductor industry to address, from the immediate opportunity rapid rollout of 5G and the longer term opportunities in quantum and satellite communications.
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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Playing a pivotal role in the world’s first compound semiconductor cluster
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult plays a pivotal role in bringing industry and academia together to create the world’s first compound semiconductor cluster, CSconnected.
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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Creating a new UK supply chain in automotive power electronics
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult is playing a critical role in the development of supply chains for electric vehicles in the UK and across the globe – a market in power electronics, motors, and drives (PEMD) predicted to be worth £5 billion in the UK by 2025.
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Connected Places
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Catalysing the future of flight
Connected Places Catapult is working at the leading edge of opportunity and innovation in aviation, spanning areas such as unscrewed air mobility, digitising airspace management and Zero Emission Flight.
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Connected Places
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Catalysing the future of flight
Connected Places Catapult is working at the leading edge of opportunity and innovation in aviation, spanning areas such as unscrewed air mobility, digitising airspace management and Zero Emission Flight.
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Connected Places
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Stimulating investment in decarbonisation of UK cities
The Connected Places Catapult is leading a world-first alliance across the UK’s major cities to secure the long-term finance necessary for achieving net zero. The Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci) is helping cities to attract public and private sources of financing for a £300bn+ market opportunity for a multi-intervention place-based Net Zero transition.
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Connected Places
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Stimulating investment in decarbonisation of UK cities
The Connected Places Catapult is leading a world-first alliance across the UK’s major cities to secure the long-term finance necessary for achieving net zero. The Cities Climate Investment Commission (3Ci) is helping cities to attract public and private sources of financing for a £300bn+ market opportunity for a multi-intervention place-based Net Zero transition.
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Connected Places
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Sparking an innovation cluster in the Belfast City Region
Connected Places Catapult has been supporting place leaders in Belfast to create new opportunities for businesses since 2016, resulting in a successful bid for a City Region Deal which is forecast to deliver £2 billion in additional GVA and 10,000 new jobs.
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Digital
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Trailblazing 5G festival hosted in the UK
The award-winning 5G Festival saw 20 musicians play together seamlessly, despite being in venues many miles apart, providing a glimpse of the massive potential of 5G technology.
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