Ocean Winds has launched a scholarship fund to support university students from Moray and north Aberdeenshire in Scotland interested in offshore wind-related degrees.
Up to £12,000 is available per student over the course of a four-year learning programme, intended to support the costs of attending university.
The EDP Renewables-ENGIE joint venture said the scholarships are designed to “encourage interest in the local offshore wind sector”, with students able to pick any UK university so long as the course has “some connection with a future role in the offshore wind sector”.
Ocean Winds UK country manager Adam Morrison said: “Ocean Winds recognises the urgent need to help our future workforce be attracted to our rapidly growing sector and become educated for the exciting challenges we can offer.
“Our existing STEM programme is helping to raise awareness of the fantastic opportunities in our sector. Now our targeted scholarship fund will help young undergraduates from the regions around our O&M bases get a significant foot forward against the costs of choosing to study for a degree.
“We are constantly looking for enthusiastic, amazing young people to help us deliver commercial-scale wind farms off Scotland, to keep on growing the clean energy our country urgently needs to meet its energy transition objectives.”
Applications to the programme are open until 23 September.