Dreams have become reality with the
opening of new world-class training
facility in Lowestoft, UK
BY: ANNE VOITH, MARKETING MANAGER, MARITIME SIMULATION, KONGSBERG DIGITAL
UK
PHOTO: Stuart Rimmer, Chief Executive of East Coast College, student Jasmine Allen and Chris Starkie, Chief Executive of the New Anglia Local
Enterprise Partnership in front of the visitors at the launch of the new Energy Skills Centre at East Coast College in Lowestoft. Picture: Neil Didsbury.
A new energy skills centre was official-ly
opened in Lowestoft on the 12th of
November. The centre is home to the
innovative new East Coast Energy Train-ing
Academy, which will cater for around
1,000 students in the year ahead. With
the energy sector seen as a key priority
for the region’s growth, the new cen-tre
will play a significant part in provid-ing
appropriately trained and qualified
employees for the future, To accommo-date
high quality training, the academy has,
among others, invested in a broad range of
simulators from Kongsberg Digital, includ-ing
3 full mission and 4 desktop K-Sim
Navigation bridge simulators, 6 DP K-POS
Class C simulators and K-Sim Engine simu-lators,
including 3D walkthrough and High
Voltage training capabilities.
Cutting the ribbon to officially open the
new facility, were Stuart Rimmer, Chief
Executive of East Coast College, Chris
Starkie, Chief Executive of New Anglia
LEP who funded the project and East
Coast College engineering student of
the year 2019 Jasmine Allen. “With this
centre of national excellence, we really
are passing on the baton to the next
generation and this is just the beginning
of a really exciting future,” said Mr Rim-mer,
before thanking Kongsberg Digital
for the cooperation on the simulator
project and for the gift handed over by
Kongsberg Digital’s representative, Sølvi
Opthun, (Area Sales Manager in the UK).
“We have been working closely with this
project for a long time and are proud of
what we have achieved together. The
new simulator park will benefit the stu-dents,
the industry and the region for
many years from now,” she said. n
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