Lauren Burns – Awakenhub interview
Pulsar is currently sponsoring eight Female Founders on Awakenhub's Shegenerate Programme. All eight are based in Northern Ireland and have a science or tech based startup. Here's software engineer Lauren Burns talking to Awakenhub in a recent blog post. Lauren is in the early stages of her founder journey creating something incredible, the [...]
Equality Commission NI publishes Draft Corporate Plan for consultation
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has published its Draft Corporate Plan for consultation. ECNI aims to use its powers and duties in combination to secure changes to policy, practices and procedures to combat discrimination and promote equality in Northern Ireland. This draft sets out five strategic priorities which have been developed to [...]
Pulsar sponsors eight female founders on the Shegenerate programme
Pulsar is delighted to be supporting eight female founders on the Shegenerate programme. The programme launched in November and the first cohort of 56 women are now beginning their journey as they start out and take their very early steps into founder life, supported by Awakenhub. AwakenHub was founded in July 2020 [...]
PEACE IV Girdwood initiative to build young people’s digital skills
A new training initiative, funded through Belfast City Council’s PEACE IV Action Plan has been launched at Girdwood Community Hub in North Belfast. Tech Connects is aimed at 17 – 24-year-olds living in Belfast and aims to raise awareness of ICT career pathways and encourage more young people to choose the relevant subjects and [...]
Women in STEM Steering Group publishes its Year 1 Review
The DfE Women in STEM Steering Group has published a report providing an overview of its activities and achievements in its first year and its ambitions for the future. Download the Women in STEM Steering Group 2020-21 Report The group was convened in October 2020 to provide advice and strategic oversight to the [...]
Early access to Catalyst’s Generation Innovation 2022 programme available now
Generation Innovation, a programme from Catalyst which aims to inform, upskill and empower the young people of this generation to thrive as the next leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs of the future has launched its early access registration for its 2022 cohort. Generation Innovation energises the imaginations and aspirations of young people in Northern [...]
Work: In Progress – Diversity, Inclusion and social purpose
Pulsar, the Northern Ireland WISE Hub is to sponsor Diversity, Inclusion and social purpose at Work: In Progress, an event being organised by Startacus which will run on Wednesday 10th November at the MAC Belfast. This session, focussed on inclusion, diversity and social purpose will focus on: Building and sustaining an inclusive workplace [...]
Spotlight on Maths
The Department for the Economy’s Careers Service has published its Spotlight on Maths which highlights how maths skills can benefit citizens in their studies and careers. Spotlight on Maths highlights how maths skills can benefit citizens in their studies and careers. Produced in conjunction with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) [...]
Royal Academy of Engineering joins forces with the Department for the Economy on talent and diversity initiative
The President of the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for the Economy, formalising an agreement between the organisations to work together to deliver an engineering talent programme in Northern Ireland. The agreement was signed at an event marking [...]
Innovate UK calls on role models to inspire young entrepreneurs
Innovate UK has partnered with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to explore the importance of role models in business. Through a new collaborative research project, they have revealed that despite the importance of role models in business, the majority of female business owners and business owners from ethnic minorities were unable to [...]
Do try this at home!
Limit Less is a campaign by the Institute of Physics to support young people to change the world and fulfil their potential by doing physics From the start of the Limit Less campaign, the IoP have recognised that they need to reach more younger people and their families to show them that [...]
New RAEng Regional Talent Engines programme launched
Do you dream of starting up your own business, changing the world and being your own boss? The Royal Academy of Engineering has just launched its Regional Talent Engines programme. This is a new offer which will provide a tailored programme of support to aspiring engineering and technology entrepreneurs in different regions of [...]