Learn to Code – Great for Transition Year Students!

Our colleagues at Microsoft DreamSpace have just released a free six-part series to bring secondary school students on journey where they will learn to code. This course is completely self-directed and can be completed on a computer, tablet, or mobile phone. Resources including the video episodes, curriculum links, worksheets and extension activities are all available…

Employability Skills Training Platform

Our friends at Accenture have provided us with access to their online employability training platform which aims to support build skills to prepare for the world of work, apply for their first job, CV and Interview prep, cover letters and application forms. This platform provides 36 bitesize, interactive modules that can be completed as self-directed…

Find Your Inspiration Primary School Teacher Training

The ‘Find Your Inspiration’ course aims to broaden pupil’s horizons, to increase their knowledge of different careers and to increase their expectations of themselves. The programme has been developed by Home School Liaison Teachers from participating schools and South Dublin County Partnership in conjunction with Maynooth University and Jigsaw Clondalkin. This online teacher training includes…

Employability Workshops

In addition to our Career Speed Networking events we are now offering free, interactive online careers workshops. These workshops will help students think about their skills and what they enjoy doing while having some fun by tapping into their creative side! Interested? Get in touch with our coordinator Triona at: triona.reid@sdcpartnership.ie Sign Up / Login…

Online Career Networking Events!

  At the heart of our work is our online career networking events. These events provide opportunities for your students to meet volunteers from a variety of sectors and learn about their job, their career paths, and their educational routes. Research shows that engagement with events such as this helps: Broaden young people’s horizons and…

2021 Online Schools Programme – Sign Up Now!

The staff at Inspiring the Future Ireland understand that this is a deeply stressful and challenging time for teachers and young people, and we are here to support you! With this in mind, we have been working hard to create a suite of free online programmes exclusively for schools in South County Dublin. Now, more…

Connecting the Community!

Thanks to Bank of America, we have received funding to tackle the “digital divide” by providing laptops and tablets to support online learning for young people in the community. We will be bridging the gap of lack of access by providing technology and equipment to those most in need. At the heart of Inspiring the…

Social Innovation Hackathon

In December 2020, we hosted our first Social Innovation Hackathon bringing together representatives from the community with professionals from business and technology to ‘hack’ the issue of providing education during COVID-19. Our hackers deliberated on their first-hand experiences of their challenges before working together to form creative solutions to these problems. The results of our…

Exciting 2021 News – Moving Online!

  Volunteering is Moving Online – We Need You! We’re really excited to move our volunteering opportunities online for 2021 making it easier than ever to get involved! Now, more than ever, young people need programmes such as Inspiring the Future Ireland to motivate and energize them for their future. We have hundreds of students…