TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Going Dutch – Offshore Wind Job Prospects Boost for Young Engineers in Cross-North Sea Skills Swap Shaped by Norfolk Zone Developer Vattenfall
Students from the Amsterdam’s MBO College Airport receiving specialist training from Hexis training experts preparing for work high up offshore wind turbines during their offshore wind skills exchange at East Coast College. Credit: Hexis
Students from the Amsterdam’s MBO College Airport during their offshore wind skills exchange at East Coast College with training providers Hexis. Credit: Hexis
Electrical engineering and aviation students from Amsterdam’s MBO College Airport spent two weeks in Lowestoft training on specialist industry equipment at ECC’s £11.7m Energy Skills Centre and in its Environmental Survival Tank.
Young engineers in colleges on both sides of the North Sea have been brought together by energy giant Vattenfall to learn job skills for the offshore wind industry thriving off both coasts.
Vattenfall, whose flagship Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone will generate enough green energy to power more than four million UK homes, introduced East Coast College (ECC)
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Lowestoft to a college in Amsterdam it worked with during construction of its 140-turbine Hollandse Kust wind farm.
Potential for a skills and knowledge exchange was spotted for students to access specialist skills not available at their own colleges. The extra skills support their entry into the burgeoning industry in the sea between their hometowns.
Later this year they will host ECC engineering students on a return visit when they learn specialist blade repair skills using decommissioned turbine blades supplied to the college by Vattenfall.
During their two weeks in Lowestoft, the Dutch students worked with Vattenfall’s young ambassadors studying at ECC, who they trained to deliver a day-long workshop to design and build a virtual windfarm. They also visited two offshore wind farm bases and control rooms and went behind the scenes at Associated British Ports (ABP) Lowestoft.
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