One of our aims is to attract Irish companies who would never have thought of operating in the space industry and to show how they can not only make a success of it in a unique and exciting industry but also use that knowledge and technology to spin off into wider ground based industries. This approach has been the true success story of the Irish industry presence in European Space Agency programmes.
The Space Industry Skillnet is an enterprise led training network that organises essential training for Irish companies who are or who want to be involved in the delivery of technology and services to the European Space Agency (ESA) in support of its space programmes (www.esa.int). The Space Industry Skillnet is a national training network and operates in all technology sectors. The objective of the Space Industry Skillnet is to encourage and enable more Irish companies to consider the space industry as a truly commercial opportunity and to provide them with the skills to do so.
Access to High Quality Training
Being a member of the Space Industry Skillnet enables low cost access to high quality training that is relevant to your business. The training network will assist your company to overcome barriers that may be preventing it from reaching its potential through delivering state of the art training locally for employees at all levels in your organisation
- How to Write Winning Proposals for ESA Contracts
- Quality Assurance in the space industry
- Software Development in the space industry
- Space Qualified Soldering and Electronic Assembly
- Materials in the space industry
- Technology Transfer and Licensing
- Management & Supervisory Skills
- Information Technology Skills
- Craft Technical Skills
- Project Management Skills
- Report Writing, Time Management & Presentation Skills
- Sales/Marketing Skills
- Network member companies enjoy up to 50% reduction in training fees for all Space Industry Skillnet training programmes.
Benefits of Networking
The national Skillnets programme has been operational since 1999 and funded over 90 training networks in more than 30 industry sectors and supported over 5,000 companies and 30,000 managers and staff to raise their skill levels.
The Skillnets experience has shown that there are major benefits from participating in the training network including:
- Sharing best practice with other members
- Developing new business opportunities
- Enabling greater buying power for specialised training
- Enabling greater buying power for specialised training
- Access to a greater range of relevant training topics
- Stimulates collaboration between members with innovation and R&D
- Companies receive targeted training suited to their specific needs
Suggestions and Feedback
The Space Industry Skillnet training network can only operate successfully with the full participation of its members and the training should be directed to satisfy your needs so please let us know if you have any suggestions for new training courses that are not already mentioned and let us have any feedback as to how we can improve the operation of the network.
We look forward to welcoming you to the training courses in the future and please do not hesitate to contact Catherine Lenehan (Network Manager) or Danny Gleeson (Network Promoter) with any questions you may have.
