Interns help manufacturers respond to coronavirus crisis

Fully-funded interns provided by Lancashire's EnginE programme have been helping the county's manufacturers to overcome the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

EnginE’s successful internship programme provides Lancashire-based manufacturing and advanced engineering SMEs with dedicated and fully-funded online support in areas including finance, data marketing, project management, HR and engineering.

Annette Suddes, EnginE project manager at Lancaster University Management School, said: "SMEs have the opportunity to approach us with specific problems and outline exactly what expertise they need. We can then match them to an intern who has specialist skills and can help them for a fixed period of time. This provides the intern with valuable experience while the business gets unique expertise and talent – without incurring costs.