A True Partnership

RESILIENCE is inherently about partnership. The project brings together a set of core partners drawing upon many years at the forefront of skills and training for medicines manufacturing, but it is also about working in partnership with those who use and benefit from the training products, services, resources and support we can provide, so that we can learn from you how best to support your needs in a rapidly changing world.


The Core Partners

The core RESILIENCE partners represent an end to end network connecting UK schools, colleges, and industry.

The University of Birmingham is a global top-100 university who lead the Midlands-Wales Advanced Therapies Treatment Centre and National Training Centre for Advanced Therapies Manufacturing coordinated through the Advanced Therapies Skills and Training Network (ATSTN), where they deliver innovative training to diverse cohorts through in-person, online, app-based and virtual reality programmes.

University College London is a global top-10 university (QS World University Rankings, 2010-23) and was ranked 2nd in the UK for Research Power by the Research Excellence Framework 2021. The Biochemical Engineering Department is a world-leader in bioprocess research, teaching and training, with award-winning educational programmes for diverse cohorts from undergraduate to senior leaders.

Teesside University is a dynamic, energetic and innovative university delivering education enriched by research, innovation and deep ties within Industry. It is home to the National Horizons Centre (NHC), a centre of excellence for training an innovation for the biosciences and healthcare sector, delivering in-person and online training to industry audiences through the ATSTN as a National Training Centre.

Heriot-Watt University is a global top-250 university, ranked 1st in the UK for General Engineering in the Research Excellent Framework. It is home to the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre, the Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies, and hosts FlexBIO, Flexible Scale-up Facility for the Industrial Biotechnoloy Innovation Centre (IBioIC), an innovation organisation that supports scale up and skills development for industrial biotechnology, including medicines and biomanufacturing.

Britest Ltd is a UK-based SME that develops innovative tools and methodologies to support sustainable process design. The company works with manufacturers in the pharmaceuticals sectors, providing training and consultancy services to support these organisations to develop more sustainable manufacturing through better process understanding.


A Growing Partnership…

RESILIENCE aims to provide teaching and outreach materials to 150 schools, colleges and universities for free, enabling them to become affiliate members of the RESILIENCE network, as well as nurturing the talent pipeline for the medicines manufacturing sector through education, mentoring and outreach.

Why not join our growing partnership?


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