• StepIn2Tech Digital Skills Training Programme
Are you looking to get into tech?!! StepIn2Tech is a new digital skills training programme that will equip 10,000 people with the digital skills required to transfer to emerging and in-demand roles within the digital economy.   The programme is developed by Microsoft Ireland, in partnership with FIT. FIT is dedicated to addressing the skills

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  • WeAreDevelopers World Congress
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress takes place 14-15 June 2022 in Berlin and promises to connect with peers and get recent insights on software development, best practices and future tech trends.   The event will bring together the world’s greatest minds in tech to show all the possibilities and opportunities that modern software development offers. WeAreDevelopers

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  • Building your Career in Tech in Ireland
MTU is hosting a panel discussion with IT professionals, ‘Building your career in Tech in Ireland’ on 16th November at 3pm. Register here Building your Career in Tech in Ireland Your questions answered by: – Mr Srikanth Vasuki, Vision Processing Unit Validation Lead and Manager, Intel – Dr Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Senior Member IEEE, Researcher

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  • Facebook Ireland Initiative 'Boost with Facebook' Supports 10,000 SMEs
Facebook Ireland has announced that it is introducing an initiative to train over 10,000 Irish SMEs in 2021 to support their recovery from the challenges caused by Covid-19. Labelled the ‘Boost with Facebook’ programme, the initiative aims to provide digital skills training to help businesses grow their online footprint, establish an online shop front, connect

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  • Impact Awards
University College Dublin, through NovaUCD, has won two Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards.   The partnership between UCD and Glanbia received the ‘Collaborative Research Impact Award’ for the AgriChemWhey project, while the University’s second award was the ‘Licence2Market Impact Award’ for its work with Atlantic Therapeutics.   Funded by Enterprise Ireland, with co-financing from

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  • digital upskilling
Last week, as part of Budget 2020, the Government announced plans to increase funding to Skillnet Ireland. Skillnet are responsible for the promotion and facilitation of workforce learning. This comes as great news for the tech agency. Furthermore, they will see an increase from 28pc to €35.9m for next year. In addition, industry contributions will

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