The University of Chichester has been awarded £8million to launch a new Engineering and Digital Technology Park at the Bognor Regis Campus, providing cutting edge skills to 500 students per year.
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Clive Behagg commented: “This investment will enable the University to radically extend its academic portfolio to meet national and local government agendas for economic growth by increasing opportunities to grow new businesses and jobs at a local and regional level. Our bid for funding was put together by an amazing team at the University with great support from many engineering and creative technology businesses in the area.”
The new Engineering and Digital Technology Park will include an Institute for Sustainable Enterprise and a Centre for Digital Technology, located in a signature new building with a new prominent gateway entrance. It enables the creation of a Research Centre for Sustainable Operations and Departments of Data Science and Advanced Engineering & Design. These developments will work with and build on the teaching, enterprise and research of our existing Business School and our existing Media and Music departments.
Through the development of the Engineering and Digital Technology Park the University of Chichester will deliver 500 new science, technology, engineering undergraduate and postgraduate student places per annum in Bognor Regis by 2020.
Chichester campus is undergoing a multi-million pounds redevelopment of the existing music block. The new music block will become a three story state-of-the-art music centre which will provide a high quality learning and rehearsal space. University of Chichester is also building a new academic block. The new building will provide more teaching space (with the ground floor being a multi-use space that includes a semi-spring floor – it may be used for dance, cinema purposes or as a large theatre space), an operations room for security purposes, a specialist IT room, and a new bigger, more modern SU shop.
