Business and partners - University of Plymouth
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Partnerships play an important role in the life of the University, enhancing our student experience, teaching and research.
Collaborating with our partners provides the best all-round university experience, enabling students to make a real contribution whilst gaining transformational new skills, confidence and connections towards graduate employment.
Business partnerships
Partner with us through Enterprise Solutions
Learn how your organisation can benefit from connecting and collaborating with the University of Plymouth. Enterprise Solutions can help you discover student talent, access our facilities, connect with our expertise and engage in professional development.
The Bridge
The Bridge drives knowledge exchange, impact and placemaking initiatives for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.
Research partnerships
The University of Plymouth engages in a number of research partnerships with other universities, businesses and groups to work towards mutually beneficial outcomes. We bring together our strengths and resources to advance research, share knowledge and create impact.
Find out more about research at the University of Plymouth
Peninsula Clinical Trials Unit
Centre for Coastal Communities
Centre for Health Technology
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
Our partnerships with academic institutions
The University works with education and commercial organisations to extend and enhance opportunities for students and organisations in the UK and globally.
We seek to develop strategic relationships with partner institutions of scale and significance, which have strategic importance or potential to the University within the UK and in Transnational Education. As the changing HE environment develops we are also deliberately seeking ways to ensure maximum mutual benefit with our regional Further Education Colleges.
Discover our international and UK partnerships
Explore more of the University's partnerships
Ashfords Solicitors
Bloomberg
Centre for Seapower and Strategy (CSS)
Cornwall Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Cornwall Innovation
Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Plymouth (DSRTP)
Dartmoor Zoological Park
Devon & Cornwall Children's University
Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership
Devon and Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
Doctoral Training Partnerships
Global Health Collaborative
Institute of Education partnerships
Joining forces – armed forces partnerships
Mayflower Autonomous Ship - IBM partnership
NIHR ARC South West Peninsula (PenARC)
Plymouth Anthology of Young People's Writing
Plymouth Manufacturers' Group (PMG)
Plymouth Science Park
Real Ideas
South West Institute of Technology
The University of Plymouth Brazilian Connections and Caribbean partners
University of the Third Age, Plymouth
University Practice Partnerships: Sustaining collaboration across learning environments (UPPScale)
University of Plymouth International College (UPIC)
University of Plymouth Students' Union (UPSU)
Food Plymouth
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