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Week Gen-C to offer career and entrepreneurship respite to pandemic-hit youth
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st March 2021
Week Gen-C is a week long calendar of events focused on entrepreneurship and careers, aimed at helping young people affected by the covid pandemic in the North West of NI
The pandemic has brought many challenges, in particular for young people as they deal with the uncertainties of its impact on their job prospects and career aspirations.
Now, two North-West NI based organisations have...
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TryTech Aims to Help London’s Disadvantaged Young People Develop Skills and Careers in Technology
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th February 2021
Innovative new platform, TryTech is launched aiming to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and support to secure knowledge-based roles in tech startups
Fab news via OneTech, an organisation connecting London’s underrepresented communities with opportunities in tech startups. They have just launched TryTech, a new online platform to help young people, aged 18-24, facing mu...
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Are multi-hyphenate roles the way forward post-Covid?
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st October 2020
The lowdown on the launch of Hyfenate, a new platform with a focus on multi-hypenate roles and a new way of job matching
An interesting new platform has just launched for those looking for the next step in their career. The platform, Hyfenate, is at the forefront of defining a new career model centred on multipotentialites, meaning someone who might be a web developer-graphic designer as well a...
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miFuture - the innovative careers app for young people
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2018miFuture - The Tech4Good startup that's created a better way of connecting young people with the world of work
Being young and being told you need to start thinking about your career is a difficult position to be in. It is supposed to get easier the closer we come to actually embarking on said career, but often it doesn’t. We simultaneously find that there is somehow a vast sea of pote...
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Mary McKenna chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th July 2018Investor and Tech advocate, Mary McKenna chats to Startacus at Digital DNA 2018, about Women in Tech, education, STEM, Elemental Software, the NI startup ecosystem, and an entrepreneur-in-residence initiative she is heading up in girls school St Mary's College in Derry, NI.
Mary McKenna is a well known Donegal based technology entrepreneur and angel investor. She c...
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Cracked It - Mobile phone repair for social good
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th July 2018Cracked It, is a social enterprise staffed by young ex-offenders and at-risk youths, teaching them marketable phone repair skills and providing the means and opportunity to make money.
For things that can cost insane amounts of money, smartphones certainly tend to break a lot. Did you drop your phone? The screen is broken. Sit on it? The screen’s broken. Look at it too hard? Screen’s ...
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HENRi@Nestlé aims to shape next generation agripreneurs and to empower better nutritional health
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th January 2018Startups take note! Time is ticking to apply for two education and employability themed projects currently live on HENRi@Nestlé, the Nestlé innovation platform that partners with startups and entrepreneurs to create innovative, high-potential and scalable solutions to core social and business challenges.
To address these challenges, the HENRi platform promotes a range of innovation ...
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