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SUMMARY:Future Makers: Turning Ideas into Real Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:About Future Makers\nFuture Makers is a three-day innovation and enterprise programme for people who want to create positive change in their communities\, explore self-employment\, and develop practical responses to social\, environmental and  economic challenges. Through facilitated workshops\, real-world examples and collaborative activities\, participants will build connections\, test ideas and identify achievable next steps. \nWho is it for?\nThe programme welcomes a mixed and diverse group\, including aspiring entrepreneurs\, people with lived and international experience\, IPAS participants\, community members\, local organisations\, public-sector partners and anyone interested in sustainability\, social innovation or community action. No previous business or innovation experience is required. \nOrganised by\nDublin South City Partnership (DSCP) in partnership with TU Dublin Sustainability Education and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Behaviour\, Inclusion and Innovation (CEBII). \nAt a glance\n\n\n\nDay 1 • Reconnect\nReconnect with self\, others and place; explore sustainability and identify shared opportunities.\n\n\nDay 2 • Imagine\nReality-check entrepreneurial ideas and explore how they can become viable opportunities.\n\n\nDay 3 • Create\nApply design thinking to a real mobility challenge and move from opportunity to action.\n\n\n\n\n📍 Location \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnological University Dublin (TU Dublin)\nAungier Street Campus\nDublin 2\, D02 HW71 \n📅 Dates\n22nd – 24th September \n  \n\nDAY 1  •  TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER \nRECONNECT: Reconnect the Disconnected \n9.30 – 16 hrs |  TU Dublin\, Aungier Street Campus  |  Courtyard Room \nReconnect with yourself\, other people and the places we share. Day 1 creates space to recognise the strengths\, experiences and ideas participants bring\, while exploring how sustainability\, community action and entrepreneurial thinking can contribute to a thriving and inclusive Dublin. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nTIME\nSESSION\nLEAD / CONTRIBUTORS\n\n\n9.30–11.00\nWelcome and interactive morning workshop: Step into the Doughnut\nMichelle Licciardi (DSCP)\, Dr Lucia Walsh & Dr Olivia Freeman\, TU Dublin\n\n\n11.00–11.15\nTea / coffee break\n\n\n\n11.15–12.45\nUnrolling the Doughnut: exploring local and global social and ecological perspectives\nDr Lucia Walsh & Dr Olivia Freeman\, TU Dublin\n\n\n12.45–13.30\nLunch\n\n\n\n1.30–14.15\nNot My Bag: documentary screening and conversation with the director\nBeta Bajgart\, See the Light Production Co\n\n\n14.15–15.00\nOutdoor microgarden activity: environmental storytelling and connection to place\nBeta Bajgart\, See the Light Production Co\n\n\n15.00–16.00\nReflection\, ideas exchange and formation of action groups around shared interests\n\n\n\n16.00 hrs\nClose\nDSCP\n\n\n\nWhat participants will take away\nNew connections\, a practical sustainability lens\, emerging opportunities for collaboration\, and a personal or collective first step to take forward. \nDay 1 facilitators\n\n\n\nMichelle Licciardi – Social Innovator/Connector & Social/Enterprise Manager\, Dublin South City Partnership \nBeta Bajgart – Filmaker and Photographer\, See the Light \nDr Lucia Walsh – Sustainability Education & Innovation Lead/Senior Lecturer\, TU Dublin \nDr Olivia Freeman – Sustainability Education Lead/Senior Lecturer\, TU Dublin\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nDAY 2  •  WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER \nIMAGINE: From Good Idea to Real Opportunity \n9.30 – 16 hrs |  TU Dublin\, Aungier Street Campus  |  Room 5050 \nDay 2 focuses on testing whether an idea responds to a real need and exploring how it could become a viable project\, social enterprise or business. The sessions combine practical enterprise guidance\, commercial thinking and accessible technology tools. \n  \n\n\n\nTIME\nSESSION\nLEAD / CONTRIBUTORS\n\n\n9.30–10.00\nWelcome and introduction to DSCP supports and pathways\nMichelle Licciardi\, DSCP\n\n\n10.00–11.15\nReality check: understanding the problem\, the people affected and the opportunity\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n11.15–11.30\nTea / coffee break\n\n\n\n11.30–13.00\nCommercial viability: value\, customers\, income and sustainability\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n13.00–14.00\nLunch\n\n\n\n14.00–15.00\nTechnology and next steps: practical tools to develop and test an idea\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n15.00 – 15.45 \nFrom student projects to local impact and scaling – \nBiaBox S’port for Grief\nEthan Levins & Giada Franzolini\n\n\n15.45 – 16.00 \nReflections\, supports and close\nMichelle Licciardi\, DSCP\n\n\n\n  \nWhat participants will take away\nA clearer\, reality-tested entrepreneurial idea; an introduction to customers\, value\, income and sustainability; and practical next steps with awareness of available supports. \nDay 2 contributors\n\n\n\nMichelle Licciardi – Social Innovator/Connector & Social/Enterprise Manager\, Dublin South City Partnership \nNoel Davidson –  Entrepreneurs Academy \nEthan Levins and Giada Franzolini – Co-founders of S’port for Grief and BiaBox\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nDAY 3  •  THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER \nCREATE: From Opportunity to Action \n9.30 – 16.00 hrs  |  TU Dublin\, Aungier Street Campus  |  Room 5050 \nDay 3 presents a hands-on innovation challenge focused on public transport\, safety\, connection and user experience. Participants will hear short inspiration bursts\, explore the Luas experience and work collaboratively to design practical ideas for a safer and more social Luas stop. \n\n\n\nTIME\nSESSION\nLEAD / CONTRIBUTORS\n\n\n9.30–10.30\nInspiration bursts: recent projects in sustainable mobility\, inclusion\, customer experience and Luas operations\nTransport Infrastructure Ireland team\n\n\n10.30–10.45\nHands-on design-thinking challenge: “Make Luas More Safe and More Social”\nTransport Infrastructure Ireland team\n\n\n10.45 – 11.00\nTea / coffee break\n\n\n\n11.30–13.00\nFacilitated design-thinking challenge – hands-on working in groups\nGavan Cleary\, TU Dublin\n\n\n13.00–14.00\nLunch and opportunity to finalise ideas\n\n\n\n14.00–15.00\nFacilitated design-thinking challenge – pitching of ideas\nGavan Cleary\, TU Dublin\n\n\n15.00–15.40\nMotivational talk and programme reflection\nPearl Olesitse\n\n\n15.40–16.00\nIdeas\, next steps\, connections and close\nDSCP & programme contributors\n\n\n\nFeatured inspiration contributors\n\nEimear Fox (TII) – nature-based solutions and gender in Luas Finglas\nKathleen Jacobi (TII) – empowering women to cycle\nNTA representative: customer experience\nDeirdre Miller (TII) and Graziela Laoide Kemp (TII): operating the Luas\n\nWhat participants will take away\nExperience of collaborative design thinking\, a stronger understanding of transport user experience\, greater confidence in communicating ideas\, and a practical pathway forward. \nDay 3 facilitators and contributors\n\n\n\nEimear Fox – Senior Landscape Architect\, TII \nKathleen Jacobi – Sustainability Portfolio and Climate Action Coordinator\, TII \nDeirdre Miller  – Customer Experience Manager\, TII \nGraziela Laoide-Kemp – Engineer\, TII \nGavan Cleary – Entrepreneurship Lecturer and  Facilitator\, TU Dublin \nPearl Letlotlo Olesitse – Pearl Holistic Hub founder\, Author & Healtcare Leader\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://dublinsouthcitypartnership.ie/dscp-event/futuremakers-turning-ideas-into-real-opportunities/
LOCATION:TU Dublin\, TU Dublin\, Aungier Street\, D02 HW71
CATEGORIES:Enterprise and Social Enterprise
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SUMMARY:Future Makers: Start Your Own Business - From Good Idea to Real Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:About Future Makers\nFuture Makers is a three-day innovation and enterprise programme for people who want to create positive change in their communities\, explore self-employment\, and develop practical responses to social\, environmental and  economic challenges. Through facilitated workshops\, real-world examples and collaborative activities\, participants will build connections\, test ideas and identify achievable next steps. \nWho is it for?\nThe programme welcomes a mixed and diverse group\, including aspiring entrepreneurs\, people with lived and international experience\, IPAS participants\, community members\, local organisations\, public-sector partners and anyone interested in sustainability\, social innovation or community action. No previous business or innovation experience is required. \nOrganised by\nDublin South City Partnership (DSCP) in partnership with TU Dublin Sustainability Education and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Behaviour\, Inclusion and Innovation (CEBII). \nAt a glance\n\n\n\nDay 1 • Reconnect\nReconnect with self\, others and place; explore sustainability and identify shared opportunities.\n\n\nDay 2 • Imagine\nReality-check entrepreneurial ideas and explore how they can become viable opportunities.\n\n\nDay 3 • Create\nApply design thinking to a real mobility challenge and move from opportunity to action.\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n23–24 September | 9:30am – 4:00pm \n📍 TU Dublin\, Aungier Street  D02 HW71 \n\n  \n\nDAY 2  •  WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER \nIMAGINE: From Good Idea to Real Opportunity \n9.30 – 16 hrs |  TU Dublin\, Aungier Street Campus  |  Room 5050 \nDay 2 focuses on testing whether an idea responds to a real need and exploring how it could become a viable project\, social enterprise or business. The sessions combine practical enterprise guidance\, commercial thinking and accessible technology tools. \n  \n\n\n\nTIME\nSESSION\nLEAD / CONTRIBUTORS\n\n\n9.30–10.00\nWelcome and introduction to DSCP supports and pathways\nMichelle Licciardi\, DSCP\n\n\n10.00–11.15\nReality check: understanding the problem\, the people affected and the opportunity\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n11.15–11.30\nTea / coffee break\n \n\n\n11.30–13.00\nCommercial viability: value\, customers\, income and sustainability\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n13.00–14.00\nLunch\n \n\n\n14.00–15.00\nTechnology and next steps: practical tools to develop and test an idea\nNoel Davidson\, Entrepreneurs Academy\n\n\n15.00 – 15.45 \nFrom student projects to local impact and scaling – \nBiaBox S’port for Grief\nEthan Levins & Giada Franzolini\n\n\n15.45 – 16.00 \nReflections\, supports and close\nMichelle Licciardi\, DSCP\n\n\n\n  \nWhat participants will take away\nA clearer\, reality-tested entrepreneurial idea; an introduction to customers\, value\, income and sustainability; and practical next steps with awareness of available supports. \nDay 2 contributors\n\n\n\nMichelle Licciardi – Social Innovator/Connector & Social/Enterprise Manager\, Dublin South City Partnership \nNoel Davidson –  Entrepreneurs Academy \nEthan Levins and Giada Franzolini – Co-founders of S’port for Grief and BiaBox\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \nDAY 3  •  THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER \n\nCREATE: From Opportunity to Action \n9.30 – 16.00 hrs  |  TU Dublin\, Aungier Street Campus  |  Room 5050 \nDay 3 presents a hands-on innovation challenge focused on public transport\, safety\, connection and user experience. Participants will hear short inspiration bursts\, explore the Luas experience and work collaboratively to design practical ideas for a safer and more social Luas stop. \n\n\n\nTIME\nSESSION\nLEAD / CONTRIBUTORS\n\n\n9.30–10.30\nInspiration bursts: recent projects in sustainable mobility\, inclusion\, customer experience and Luas operations\nTransport Infrastructure Ireland team\n\n\n10.30–10.45\nHands-on design-thinking challenge: “Make Luas More Safe and More Social”\nTransport Infrastructure Ireland team\n\n\n10.45 – 11.00\nTea / coffee break\n \n\n\n11.30–13.00\nFacilitated design-thinking challenge – hands-on working in groups\nGavan Cleary\, TU Dublin\n\n\n13.00–14.00\nLunch and opportunity to finalise ideas\n \n\n\n14.00–15.00\nFacilitated design-thinking challenge – pitching of ideas\nGavan Cleary\, TU Dublin\n\n\n15.00–15.40\nMotivational talk and programme reflection\nPearl Olesitse\n\n\n15.40–16.00\nIdeas\, next steps\, connections and close\nDSCP & programme contributors\n\n\n\nFeatured inspiration contributors\n\nEimear Fox (TII) – nature-based solutions and gender in Luas Finglas\nKathleen Jacobi (TII) – empowering women to cycle\nNTA representative: customer experience\nDeirdre Miller (TII) and Graziela Laoide Kemp (TII): operating the Luas\n\nWhat participants will take away\nExperience of collaborative design thinking\, a stronger understanding of transport user experience\, greater confidence in communicating ideas\, and a practical pathway forward. \nDay 3 facilitators and contributors\n\n\n\nEimear Fox – Senior Landscape Architect\, TII \nKathleen Jacobi – Sustainability Portfolio and Climate Action Coordinator\, TII \nDeirdre Miller  – Customer Experience Manager\, TII \nGraziela Laoide-Kemp – Engineer\, TII \nGavan Cleary – Entrepreneurship Lecturer and  Facilitator\, TU Dublin \nPearl Letlotlo Olesitse – Pearl Holistic Hub founder\, Author & Healtcare Leader
URL:https://dublinsouthcitypartnership.ie/dscp-event/future-makers-start-your-own-business-from-good-idea-to-real-opportunity/
LOCATION:TU Dublin\, TU Dublin\, Aungier Street\, D02 HW71
CATEGORIES:Enterprise and Social Enterprise
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