Skillnets

Skillnets is an enterprise-led support body whose mission is to enhance the skills of people in employment in Irish industry to support competitiveness and employability. 

Skillnets is

• Funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment from the National Training Fund.
• Enables grant aided training for the private sector through 114 industry and regional training networks.
• Each network delivers training, upskilling and professional development programmes for its members that are enterprise led and designed to specific industry needs.

A 'Skillnet' (or Learning Network) is a group of three or more enterprises that decide to cooperate as a group in order to a establish an industry training programme or undertake an industry initiative that individual members of the group would be unable to undertake as successfully acting alone.

For further information about Skillnets and to see the list of Skillnet Networks operating in the Western Region, visit www.skillnets.ie.