From OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
A group of schools and universities in northern Ohio, together with Owens Neighborhood School, not too long ago secured $3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Division of Vitality to help the Educational Applications to Improve the Hydrogen Economic system undertaking.
The hassle brings collectively Owens, the College of Toledo, Case Western Reserve College, Cuyahoga Neighborhood School and Northwest State Neighborhood School with the Ohio Aerospace Institute and the Workforce Intelligence Community. The aim is to coach employees for brand new and current jobs to soundly retailer and deal with hydrogen and construct and keep hydrogen-based infrastructure.
“Owens Neighborhood School is comfortable to collaborate with such superb establishments to review the way forward for a hydrogen-based infrastructure. This undertaking couldn’t occur with out the efforts of the College of Toledo, together with United States Consultant Marcy Kaptur. That is one other approach for Owens to assist practice and educate the workforce of tomorrow in northwest Ohio,” stated Charlene Web page, govt director of Owens Workforce and Financial Improvement.
A web based dialogue on “Workforce Readiness for the Hydrogen Economic system in Ohio and Michigan” will happen from 11th of September a.m. on Thursday, February 27. The digital dialogue will establish present and future workforce wants in Ohio and Michigan. The general public is welcome to attend the dialogue to be taught extra concerning the efforts. Click register for the discussion.
The funding from the Division of Vitality will permit the collaborative effort to determine a workforce improvement program and increase course choices. The undertaking goals to develop new coaching applications to supply expert employees wanted for the hydrogen-based financial system in northern Ohio whereas additionally serving as a mannequin for future growth of workforce improvement applications.
Owens will develop and implement new credit score and workforce coaching applications to help the hydrogen financial system. It’s going to collaborate with the opposite establishments to develop the course content material. The faculties will even discover a switch program that may permit college students from Owens to switch to a bachelor diploma program in hydrogen educational program at Toledo or different Ohio universities.
“Owens’ STEM and Workforce departments will proceed to develop sturdy educational and workforce applications in coordination with regional employers, secondary faculties and stakeholders,” Web page stated. “This funding will help and encourage Owens’ skill to be an indispensable accomplice in workforce and financial improvement all through northwest Ohio.”
Web page stated one of the vital steps is establishing a map of our present hydrogen-based infrastructure. With the undertaking nonetheless within the information-gathering stage, the group despatched a survey to key stakeholders within the space, known as the Hydrogen Social Community Evaluation, an effort to map the regional hydrogen ecosystem that may form the way forward for hydrogen. The primary survey identifies connections and collaboration alternatives amongst organizations, and a second survey will consider workforce wants and job expertise.
Plans are to recruit college students as early as Fall 2026.
