Clean Heat Strategic Workforce Development Fund open

The clean heat market is a rapidly expanding sector and Scottish Enterprise are making support available to help companies take advantage of the opportunities it presents. 

Companies already active in, or interested in diversifying into, the clean heat market may be eligible for workplace innovation support and funding. Scottish Enterprise, supported by the Scottish Government, is offering workplace innovation support to companies that are either already active or interested in diversifying into the clean heat market.

Through the Clean Heat Strategic Workforce Development Fund, grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 will be available for companies to develop:

• Workforce capability and culture
• Workplace practices
• Leadership and management

Clean heat includes:

• Energy efficiency
• Clean heat equipment and delivery systems (such as heat pumps and heat networks and their components)
• Supportive solutions (such as energy storage)
• Enabling solutions (such as digital and smart controls)
• Sources of fossil fuel free energy (such as mine water geothermal energy and waste heat)

As part of this service, your business will receive strategic workforce development support from a specialist in the Scottish Enterprise Workplace Innovation Team.

Strategic workforce development for the clean heat sector can cover areas such as:

• Technical training, including training relating to:
  • the manufacturing of clean heat equipment and related components and enabling solutions (for example, thermal storage)
  • energy efficiency products
  • heat pump installations
  • the commissioning of heat networks or equipment for heat networks
• Training in enabling technology, such as:
  • CAD design
  • automation
  • 3D printing
  • electrical and mechanical engineering
  • working with different types of materials
  • data and digital
• Communication, social media, professional selling, and marketing
• Leadership and management development, change management, customer relationship management, Lean Six Sigma, and project management

This fund is for:

• Companies that are interested in receiving support to strategically develop their workforce in order to diversify or grow competitively in the rapidly expanding clean heat market
• Companies across the clean heat value chain, including those that design, develop, manufacture, operate, or install clean heat related solutions

To find out more about this funding opportunity check the link: Clean Heat Strategic Workforce Development Fund | Scottish Enterprise (scottish-enterprise.com)