Skills for Schools

Microsoft Dream Space

Microsoft Dream Space digital skills offering for primary and post-primary students is expanding to ensure students learn about the fundamentals of AI from how it is created to where it applies in their everyday lives and the opportunities and challenges that come with it including ethical and responsible AI. Dream Space is Microsoft Ireland’s investment in the future development of Ireland’s digital economy. By continuing to identify the necessary skills and talent required to fuel our economy and enhance our competitiveness into the future we want to prepare students who participate in the Microsoft Dream Space experience for the jobs of the future.

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STEM Passport for Inclusion

The All-Ireland STEM Passport for Inclusion programme is a joint initiative by Maynooth University, Microsoft Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland and the Department of Education that addresses inequalities with access to STEM careers among secondary school students in socially disadvantaged communities.
The programme’s innovative approach, which combines an educational qualification (Level 6 NFQ), education supports, and mentoring from industry role models, provides a unique pathway for approximately 5,000 students to progress to 3rd level education and achieve a STEM qualification.
The national roll-out of the programme (2023-2025), which is funded by Microsoft, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Department of Education, will see participants graduate from partner universities, Atlantic Technological University, Munster Technological University and Maynooth University.

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