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Key Goals

In order to successfully accomplish the overarching goal of the WIRED Project to spur the integration of education, workforce, and economic development systems, Maine’s North Star Alliance partners have identified the following six goals:

  • Create high quality, skilled jobs that support the competitiveness of the targeted industries, the income of Maine workers, and a return for the public investment.
  • Expand current markets and develop new ones so that the boat building, composites, and marine trades industries achieve global industry leadership.
  • Transform and build upon the capacity of the public system to nimbly and flexibly support competitive boat building, composites, and marine trade industries that are looking to expand capacity, create and/or improve their workforce, and/or take their technology to the next level.
  • Through advanced training opportunities build on the willingness, ability and skill sets of both the current and future workforce.
  • Ensure that the economic development delivery model is sustainable and can be replicated for other targeted industries and regions.
  • Catalyze innovation through research, development and workforce preparedness that will sustain and improve the global competitiveness of Maine’s boatbuilding, composites and marine trades industry.