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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Inspiring the Future – Social Innovation Hackathon Collaborate – Innovate – Change What is a Social Hackathon? A hackathon is an event where individuals from multiple sectors work together on short-term projects. These events are intended to be intense, engaging and collaborative. The aim is to inspire, enthuse and ignite an innovative style of…
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Exciting news – The Echo has teamed up with Inspiring the Future Ireland! We were delighted to have them be a part of an event in St Anne’s primary school in Fettercairn earlier this week. See today’s s Echo for the full story! Check out this video of Project Coordinator Sharon Murray chatting with The…
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Inspiring the Future Ireland were delighted to be Charity Partner at the 2019 Networking Summit this September at the Carlton Hotel. The day was a great success with over 180 vibrant business people chatting and sharing contacts. We heard wonderful talks from Damian Browne, Kingsley Aiken, Sharon Tighe, Gillian Burrell and more. Siobhan Fitzpatrick, the…
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Inspiring the Future Ireland launches its ‘Inspiring Women’ campaign to highlight successful female role models in today’s workplace South Dublin County Partnership seeks 1,000 female professionals to speak with underrepresented school students from disadvantaged areas about succeeding in their career Friday 8th March 2019: Inspiring the Future Ireland (ITFI), an initiative run by South Dublin…
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On Tuesday 20th February 2018 South Dublin County Partnership and the Institute of Technology Tallaght hosted an Inspiring the Future Careers Seminar. Over 450 fifth year schools from Collinstown Park Community College, Deansrath Community College, St Aidan’s Community School, Old Bawn Community School, St John’s College and Colaiste de hÍde descended on the I.T. Tallaght campus to hear from a range of…
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