wider engagement

SULSA works in partnership with Scottish Government, the Scottish Funding Council and Skills and Enterprise agencies to support skills delivery more broadly across Scotland and to improve the flow of talent into our life sciences sector.

Overview

SULSA’s Director is a member of the Industry Leadership Group for Life Sciences Scotland and the Skills subgroup for Life and Chemical Sciences convened by Skills Development Scotland. Through these groups SULSA proactively seeks opportunity to support skills development for the life sciences sector in Scotland and drive academia-industry connectivity.

SULSA is working with ecosystem partners to support skills development within the National Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurial Campus to enable our higher education sector institutions and individuals to engage and support developments where suitable.

Overview

In 2021 SULSA, as part of a national consortia including Roslin CT, Edinburgh Napier University, Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre and Ayrshire College, represented 1 of the 3 National Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network (ATSTN) Centres in the UK.

During 2020 SULSA worked closely with the Life Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group to support economic recovery through enhanced skills provision in the area of advanced therapies and vaccines.

Our Pan-Scotland provision, with delivery from Colleges, Universities, Industry and Innovation Centres, not only enabled us to train across a range of levels and deliver demand- led content but further built on the connectivity across the education system and our life science sector. Working as a consortium with our fellow UK Centres expanded our visibility and enabled knowledge exchang across key players in the UK Research and Innovation landscape.

This project ran between April 2021 – April 2023.

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Overview

The Life and Chemical Sciences NTTF project ran from October 2021 – August 2022 and was funded by the Scottish Government. If you would like to find out more about the project and the outcomes achieved, please refer to the NTTF Project Evaluation Report.

With our industry training providers, we offered short introductory courses which were designed to help the transition of non-biologists new to working in life sciences or for biologists who wanted to refine and acquire new skills to continue their career in other parts of the life sciences sector, e.g. advanced therapies.

The courses increased the knowledge of possible career paths and enabled candidates new to life sciences to decide whether they wanted to pursue a career in the life sciences industry, added basic experience to their CV and introduced them to potential employers.

SULSA worked with Roslin CT, Dundee & Angus College, Merck Bioreliance, SRUC, the University of Edinburgh, Charles River Laboratories, EntrustRS, Glasgow Polyomics and Skillfluence in the design and delivery of 13 courses in 10 months.