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£2.5 million for Combined Universities in Cornwall at
Tremough
August 2010
Mark Prisk, Minister of Business and Enterprise recently
announced (29 July) that the South West RDA will be investing £2.5
million in two projects based at University College Falmouth (UCF)
and University of Exeter’s (UoE) Tremough campus.
The projects receiving the funding are:
- The Academy for Innovation and Research (AIR) is a research
& development laboratory for the creative industries. It will
provide a facilitation space to assist in the development of high
growth, knowledge based businesses and raise levels of business
innovation, competitiveness and productivity at Tremough. This will
allow UCF to support additional full-time students and is expected
to create an extra 253 jobs on campus.
- The Exchange; an extension to the library, increased seminar
and lecture space, new student services facilities and a reception
and will be used by both Exeter and UCF students.
- These additional facilities will form three departments within
the university:
- The AIR;
- The Environment and Sustainability
Institute (ESI) - a UoE led research project, which will support
368 new jobs by 2015 and house over 350 undergraduate and
postgraduates students
- The Performance Centre - a UCF led project
that will open in October 2010 and will accommodate space for an
additional 600 students.
During his two-day trip to Cornwall, which included a visit to the
campus, Mark Prisk said: “Tremough is an inspiring example of
transformational investment in Cornwall. By focusing the research
and development agenda on small business opportunities, which build
on Cornwall’s natural strengths in the environmental and creative
industries, the county’s HE sector is making an important
contribution to the local economy.”
Suzanne Bond, executive director of the South West RDA, said:
“This is exactly the type of investment the South West economy
needs right now. It supports and expands a truly innovative project
that will in the long run position Combined Universities in
Cornwall at Tremough at the forefront of environmental and creative
industries. AIR and the ‘Exchange’ projects have the potential to
attract hundreds of highly skilled, highly paid jobs to the
county.”