South West College has invested in excess of £60 million to date in its five campuses based in Cookstown, Dungannon, Enniskillen (2 Campuses) and Omagh to provide students with an excellent learning environment complemented by the most state-of-the-art equipment and facilities necessary to advance learning in today’s competitive marketplace. The College is in the process of building a purpose built £25 million world-leading passive campus in Enniskillen. This will be a world first in terms of educational facilities, holding many similarities to the new Apple 2 Campus in America.
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The College has invested substantial resources to create Innovation Centres at each of its main campuses. These centres are purpose built to enable engagement with industry in a relevant and focused manner. Through these centres long-lasting relationships with industry have been created and used to complement curriculum development, a key driver in servicing the employment needs of industry locally, nationally and internationally. These centres provide state-of-the-art learning resources for all College students that are unrivalled anywhere in Northern Ireland.
The function of the Idea Centre is an interactive learning and exhibition space in which SWC students, other post-primary school children, entrepreneurs and companies from a variety of industries will attend to encourage them to participate in a creative process of generating ideas and rapidly creating prototypes to establish proof of concept.
The STEM Centre at South West College is a specially designed state-of-the-art teaching facility and exhibition space, focused exclusively on delivering educational and instructional activities in the areas of STEM. Experience the excitement of discovery at Northern Ireland's only dedicated STEM Centre.
CREST provides assistance for businesses in the renewable energy, sustainability, environmental and construction industries. The CREST Passive Pavilion is one of the most sustainable buildings in the UK and Ireland and meets the Passive House, BREEAM Excellent and Carbon Neutral building standards. The CREST R&D laboratory hosts a wide range of new laboratory testing equipment to service the biogas and biomass industries with the ability to manufacture and test biomass products. CREST offers an ever expanding range of seminars, workshops, conferences and research & development services for industry covering topics such as new technology installation and operation, low energy and passive construction techniques and innovation in product development.