Summary of approved projects and associated funding awards HEFCW circular W21/08HE: Annex B

Priorities investment Types of Activities Institution Funding allocations will address Supported

Maintaining capacity in priority areas (eg nursing, Veterinary Medicine) Investment in learning Priority 1 technologies Priority 3 Aberystwyth University Supporting at-risk £2,850,000 Priority 4 skills and research Priority 6 contracts which universities hold with businesses to support jobs and knowledge exchange.

Protecting priority academic areas Priority 1 Protecting student Bangor University £2,850,000 Priority 3 recruitment Supporting blended learning

Supporting the student learning experience in subject areas where Priority 1 delivery has been Priority 2 impacted by COVID Cardiff Metropolitan University £600,000 Priority 3 Developing students' Priority 5 employability and entrepreneurial skills to support economic recovery

Developing digital education and flexible Priority 1 and accessible Cardiff University £600,000 Priority 3 provision (development of microcredentials) Investing in digital Priority 1 infrastructure Swansea University Priority 2 £1,500,000 Supporting January Priority 3 entry students Digital infrastructure University of South Wales Priority 3 £600,000 investment Supporting staff job retention Priority 1 Student skills University of Wales Trinity Saint Priority 2 development, £1,500,000 David Priority 3 internships Priority 4 Developing digital infrastructure

Strengthening technical infrastructure to support blended learning Priority 1 Retaining staff Wrexham Glyndŵr University Priority 3 £1,500,000 capacity Priority 6 Supporting skills and employability

Total Funding £12,000,000 Summary of approved projects and associated funding awards HEFCW circular W21/08HE: Annex B

Proposal Lead Institution Collab Partners Funding allocations

Bangor University, Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Protecting the Research Aberystwyth University Swansea University, University of £7,393,194 Base in Wales South Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Bangor University, Swansea University Supporting Arts Centres Aberystwyth University £175,000

Skills Factory Bangor University Coleg Cambria and Open University £1,600,000

PVC LTN Blended Learning Universities Wales Learning and Wrexham Glyndŵr - Sustaining and enhancing Teaching Network (LTN - all HEIs £2,730,000 University digital learning pan-Wales including Open University)

Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wrexham Glyndŵr Scoping Joint Provision Swansea University University, £251,000 University of South Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Wales Institute of Digital Info & Employer Engagement Taskforce University of Wales Trinity Saint David University of South Wales £2,850,807 Civic Action, Community Upskilling & Entrepreneurship Total Funding Awarded £15,000,000 Summary of approved projects and HEFCW circular W21/08HE: Annex B associated funding awards Welsh Government Priorities

Maintaining capacity across the HE system in Wales in priority areas of teaching and research which need to be maintained through the 2020/21 academic year where HEFCW Priority 1 has identified such provision is under threat due to shortfalls in domestic and international student recruitment.

Priority recovery and investment projects in teaching and research, particularly tied to the Welsh Government’s priorities for economic recovery, stabilisation and reconstruction, Priority 2 including artificial intelligence research, development of digital technologies, and green technologies.

Investment in learning technologies and blended learning facilities (including expansion of online provision and parallel developments in digital inclusion and reach) to ensure Priority 3 maintenance of the quality of student experience in Welsh universities, with the goal of maintaining Welsh universities’ traditionally strong performance in student experience surveys.

Support the extension of at-risk skills and research contracts which universities hold with Priority 4 businesses to support jobs and knowledge exchange.

Student hardship funds to be allocated by HEFCW to institutions, and by institutions to Priority 5 students, on the basis of urgent financial need.

Facilitating institutions to review their portfolio offer and to advise their governors on its Priority 6 future development.