Advance ME: Enhanced Investment Zone skills programme
Advance ME is the main upskilling and reskilling strand of the Enhanced Investment Zone skills programme. It helps address skills shortages that limit productivity and growth in the advanced manufacturing sector.
Belfast Metropolitan College
- Level 3: AI-901 Azure AI Fundamentals Certification
- Level 3: AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Certification
- Level 3: PL-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Certification
- Level 3: AB-900 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals Certification
- Level 4: OCN Certificate in Data Analytics
- Level 4: PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst Certification
- Level 4: DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals Certification
- Level 5: ILM Award in Leadership and Management
- Level 5: ILM Certificate in Operational Leadership Management Skills
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Northern Regional College
- Level 3: Laboratory Working Practices
- Level 3: Laboratory Analytical Techniques
- Level 3: Award in Artificial Intelligence for Industry
- Level 3: Digital Prototype Design and Manufacture
- Level 4: Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Level 4: Mechanical Principles
- Level 4: Industrial Robotics
- Level 4: Mechanical Workshop Practices
- Level 4: Laboratory Skills for Industry
- Level 5: Lean Manufacturing
- Level 5: Award in Green Technologies: Solar Photovoltaic Systems
- Level 5: Award in Green Technologies: Hydrogen Production Systems and Technologies
- Level 5: Award in Leadership and Management
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North West Regional College
- Level 3: OCN NI Award in Industrial Robotics
- Level 3: OCN NI Award in Digital Prototype Design and Manufacture
- Level 3: OCN Award in AI for Industry
- Level 3: Certificate in AI: Concepts, Ethics and Applications
- Level 3: NCFE Certificate in Cyber Security Practices
- Level 4: Certificate in Data Analysis
- Level 4: OCN NI Diploma in Industry Project Management Skills
- Level 4: Project Implementation unit
- Level 4: Solution-based Project Planning unit
- Level 4: OCN NI Certificate in Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
- Level 4: OCN NI Certificate in Software Programming
- Level 4: OCN NI Award in Industrial Robotics
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South Eastern Regional College
- Level 3: CMI in Managing AI Adoption
- Level 3: Siemens Mechatronics
- Level 4: Quality and Process Improvement
- Level 4: Mechanical Principles
- Level 5: CMI Award in Management and Leadership: Creating and Delivering Operational Planning
- Level 5: CMI in Leading AI Transformation
- Level 5: Lean Manufacturing
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Southern Regional College
- Level 3: Award in Transforming Business Processes using AI Agents
- Level 3: Award in Quality Management Foundation
- Level 3: Award in IT: Improving Productivity using IT and Project Management Software units
- Level 3: Spreadsheet Software unit
- Level 3: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Level 3: Laboratory Working Practices module
- Level 3: Laboratory Analytical Techniques module
- Level 4: Certificate in AI for Business Leaders
- Level 4: Certificate in Industrial Laboratory Skills
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South West College
- Level 3: AI in Industry
- Level 3: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- Level 4: Data Analytics
- Level 4: Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers
- Level 4: Quality and Process Improvement
- Level 4: Operations and Plant Management
- Level 4: Industry 4.0
- Level 4: Industrial Robotics
- Level 4: Programmable Logic Controllers
- Level 4: Fundamentals of Laboratory Techniques
- Level 4: Scientific Data Handling Approaches and Techniques
- Level 5: Lean Manufacturing
- Level 5: Advanced Manufacturing Engineering
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Open University - micro credentials
- Level 7: Supply Chain Management
- Level 7: Information Security
- Level 7: Data Management
- Level 7: Finite Element Analysis: Principles and Applications
- Level 7: Network Security
- Level 7: Strategic Capabilities for Technological Innovation
- Level 7: Technology and Innovation Management
- Level 7: Managing Change with Systems Thinking in Practice
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Queen’s University Belfast - micro credentials
- Level 7: Chromatographic Skills for Pharmaceutical Analysis
- Level 7: Data Analytics Fundamentals
- Level 7: Foundations in AI
- Level 7: AI Entrepreneurship and Consulting
- Level 7: AI Frontiers in Business
- Level 7: Cyber Security and Digital Risk Management
- Level 7: Design Thinking and AI
- Level 7: Digital Supply Chain Management
- Level 7: Generative AI and Business Intelligence
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