Turkish Aerospace Industries exchange knowledge with NWRC.

Over the past 2 years Northwest Regional College have been collaborating with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) on a digital skills project funded by Erasmus+. A number of NWRC staff were in Turkey in May 2023 and visited TAI.

TAI have continued this collaboration and are currently working with NWRC on a Horizon Europe submission. A formal staff/student exchange training programme is also in development.

During the visit the TAI delegation exchanged

• Experiences of project-based learning to further develop delivery of project-based learning
• Experiences of the high-end 3D printing TAI uses in production, to assist NWRC’s Product Design Centre’s development of it’s 3D printing capability
• TAI’s development of Virtual Reality for staff training, to assist NWRC’s development of VR and the NWRC XR (Extended reality) Centre.