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The North East is already home to excellent innovation assets supporting key sectors and facilitating open-innovation across our themes; but we know there are gaps and areas where we could do more. The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) is therefore inviting bids from early stage innovation projects to come forward for development […]

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Students from Berwick Academy in Northumberland visited a key site in the North East energy sector to learn about the range of careers available to them in the future. During a day spent at InTEGRel in Gateshead, where academics and engineers work to deliver breakthroughs in the decarbonisation of heat, year 9 students explored roles […]

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The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) is inviting Expressions of Interest from projects which deliver on the vision of the North East Energy for Growth Strategy, to “Drive growth in the North East while delivering on national energy objectives.” In support of this strategy we are working with cross-sector partners to develop […]

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The North East LEP’s new Energy for Growth strategy aims to drive economic growth in the North East while also bringing sector partners together to deliver at scale on national energy strategy. Andrew Clark, North East LEP Energy Programme Lead, explains more. We’ve been actively consulting with cross-sector partners across the North East with an […]

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By Andrew Hodgson, chair of the North East LEP When it comes to the future of the UK, we all agree that the North East must be front and centre of the Government’s plans, which is why the Convention of the North with NP11 is an important date for the diary. Taking place at the […]

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Do you believe in the North East, its people, places and businesses? Could you help to drive economic growth in the region? The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) works with partners across the region to deliver the North East Strategic Economic Plan, with the ultimate aim of creating 100,000 more and better jobs between […]

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Adults across the North East will be personally invited to try out a pioneering new digital service that will help more people to get on a path to a new, more rewarding career, Education Minister Kemi Badenoch has announced today (20 August). The Get Help to Retrain digital service is the first of a series […]

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North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Senior Economist, Victoria Sutherland, comments on this week’s regional labour market statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics. “The statistics once again show a relatively stable picture for the North East including Tees Valley, although the region has recorded a slight drop in the number of people in […]

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Education employs 85,000 people in the North East and offers significant opportunities for more and better jobs in the region, directly and indirectly. Durham University is a world leader and has a ten-year strategy to invest £1 billion in people, and digital and physical infrastructures. Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Corbridge explores how universities can make a […]

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Students and teachers at Newcastle’s Excelsior Academy have been using applied learning to strengthen the links between schools and employers. Holly Knox, Assistant Principal of Hadrian School at Excelsior Academy, talks about the school’s recent visit to the Port of Blyth and how it has helped students to apply classroom learning to real life. We […]

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