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Training Opportunities & Paid Work
ERIC is a free app designed for young people to find opportunities and learn more about careers. It includes opportunities across the 16 creative industries, including: Arts & Craft, Culture & Heritage, Fashion, Film & TV, Games, and more!
All Talent Accelerator opportunities will now be hosted on ERIC, sign up for the app and subscribe to our profile to stay up to date.
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Find our profile on ERIC by searching for Talent Accelerator.
If you can’t access ERIC, please email talentacc@dlwp.com and we can email you our latest opportunities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Co-created with young people, DABBBLE champions access to creative work experience. DABBBLE is on a mission to raise aspirations, forge collaborative partnerships and to foreground young creators as role models to young people aged 16-25.
Talent Accelerator work experience opportunities will now be hosted on DABBBLE. If you are under 16, a parent, carer or guardian can sign up to the app to view these opportunities.
Find out more and sign up to DABBBLE here.
If you can’t access DABBBLE, please email talentacc@dlwp.com and we can email you our latest work experience opportunities.
SCHOOLS & ORGANISATIONS
Working in partnership with Future Creators (Brighton Dome), Talent Accelerator are currently delivering Coastal Catalyst. This aims to improve creative opportunities for young people (aged 14-25) across the Sussex Coastal Corridor between Bexhill and Bognor Regis.
Sign up as a Coastal Catalyst partner. By joining as a partner, your school/organisation will gain access to resources, funding opportunities, and a network of like-minded partners, all working together to improve opportunities for young people.
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The Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network seeks to help redress the balance of diminishing cultural resources in schools.
Established in 2013 the network brings together schools, cultural organisations and artists in meaningful, lasting relationships.
Working with partners in Hastings and Rother in East Sussex, the focus is on using local resources for local schools, creating sustainable projects that embed culture into young people’s everyday lives.
We offer regular networking meetings for teachers and practitioners, information exchange including newsletters, opportunities for cultural engagement and bespoke cultural projects; supporting teachers in the classroom, artists working in schools and organisations offering cultural outreach.
Find out more here.
DIGITAL BADGING
It is our goal to retain the creative talent in East Sussex, and to empower employers to work with young people to help drive their businesses. To help keep things on track, we’ve developed, along with our partners, an accredited Talent Accelerator pathway. This system sees young people achieve and collect accredited digital badges to motivate learning and ambition and to help them build a purpose driven pathway through the Talent Accelerator programme.
How Digital Badging works:
Digital Badges are a simple way to acknowledge the value of creative skills and experiences, support young people on creative pathways and evaluate the impact an organisation is making.
When it comes to skills and employability, it can be difficult to show the experience employers want to see in job applications, CVs or when applying for courses – particularly when that experience is more practical or not formally credited. Digital Badges help organisations, earners and employers track and show different knowledge and skills. They provide:
- A smart, simple, and visual way of recognising non-accredited learning.
- A useful tool for earners to proudly display on their website, email signature, LinkedIn profile, and CV.
- An effective and inexpensive way of proving impact as an organisation.
- A simple website link accessible to anyone, globally.
Digital Badges are more than just a picture to share. The visual part includes the issuing organisation’s logo and the badge name, but they also contain metadata that explains who earned the badge, what they did to earn it and who the issuing organisation is.
There are so many achievements and contributions young people can earn badges for, from engaging in careers events to planning and delivering workshops. We can help you identify suitable activities to badge that build creative skills to help young people imagine, generate and innovate their own ideas.
All our badges are quality assured and meet the RSA Badging Standard, making them a reliable indicator of skill and accomplishment.
Have a skill you’d love to earn a badge for? Contact talentacc@dlwp.com to let us know.
Find out more about digital badges here.
Contact talentacc@dlwp.com to find out more about how you can get involved with issuing your own digital badges.