Contact details

Phone: 07700 900147

Email: Computing@canterbury.ac.uk

What is the EDGE Hub?

EDGE Hub addresses the current challenges faced by companies in Kent and Medway who require innovative solutions that enables them to thrive. We have developed a new and exciting model to deliver STEM education, enterprise and research to help expand the region's inward investment potential. Our engineering degrees, already underway and fully launched in September 2020 with a new £65m STEM facility for Kent and Medway, put creativity and problem-solving at the heart of learning.

• EDGE Hub will be worth an estimated �7.6m to �11.4m per year to the Kent and Medway economy. Injecting 1,250 highly-skilled engineering and technology graduates into the local economy by 2024.


• Creating a sustainable and diverse regional talent pool with 30 to 40% of graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds and 30 to 35% women graduates by 2024.


• Canterbury Christ Church University is a leading and active partner in Kent and Medway�s schools and colleges, with strong outreach and engagement initiatives inspiring thousands of children into higher education. It also holds the STEM Learning schools network contract, STEM Hub, for the South East. Member of the national WISE campaign, the international CDIO community and Primary Engineer�s education partner for the South East.


• Supported by multimillion-pound funding from the South East Local Enterprise Partnership, former Higher Education Funding Council for England, and the Garfield Weston Foundation.