Digital Step is funded by the European Social Fund under the Northern Ireland EQUAL Community Initiative, and co-ordinated by Dream Ireland Limited – a research and development organisation for the creative industries.

The project aims to use Digital Technologies and Popular Culture to engage young people in the learning process.

The project targets socially disadvantaged young people aged 16-25 whom are facing a multitude of barriers to their integration into the labour market.

Digital Step will focus upon research and policy to develop new learning opportunities, new models of learning and new qualifications within both formal and informal learning environments.

The Digital Step partnership aims to address unequal access to the labour market for marginalized young people by developing new models for learning, training and employment in the area of digital media. The project aims to influence policy at a regional, national and international level by changing core thinking and practice.

Dissemination & Showcase Event
The Digital Step Dissemination & Showcase Event will take place in Belfast on June 29th to celebrate the impact of the project at both national and European level. Click here to download the conference programme.

Coming Soon….Research Report on Employers Attitudes to Non-Formal Learning
Digital Step has commissioned a research study into the attitudes of NI employers towards non-formal learning and qualifications. The study will survey 200 SMEs and the findings will be published (and available for download) in summer 2005.

Download the latest project outcomes information (Acrobat PDF)

CCEA AWARD
Digital Step designed the new Occupational Studies in Digital Technology award for Northern Ireland’s main examination’s body, CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment).
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TRANSNATIONAL TRANSFER OF DIGITAL STEP
Dream Ireland are the lead partner in the Digital Step project and along with MILOS in Berlin and ACCESS in Sweden make up the R.E.A.L. transnational partnership which examines new approaches to training and education for socially excluded young people using media and popular culture.
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Music Technology
Woodvale Bytes’

Animation
Dyslexia & Dyspraxia Support Group

Digital Imaging
Action Mental Health at The Junction