Education, Skills & Training
Developing links between the contemporary craft industry and the education and training sectors is key to building a successful future for the craft sector in Northern Ireland. Craft NI works with its partners in the University and Further Education colleges to support and develop knowledge and understanding of the contemporary realities of the industry and promote the opportunities associated with a career in craft.
We also work to raise awareness of the value of craft in schools, emphasising the importance of making as a skill within early years, primary and secondary school curricula. We support these aims through our FEHE forum and links with partners such as Creative & Cultural Skills, the NI Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment, Education and Library Boards, Education and Training Inspectorate and schools.
- Making it
- Innovation Boost
Programmes
- The Leopards and Prince's Trust design competition - in partnership with British Vogue’s Contributing Jewellery Director Carol Woolton
Opportunities
- Ulster University
Partners
- Help Fund Ulster University Students for New Designers
- Digital Programme for NI Craft Sector Update
- Exporting Your Craft - Video
- Harnessing Creativity in Leitrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone
- In the News: The making it Programme
- Join the Craft Conversations
- New HCA Heritage Craft Awards Announced
- New Museums and Creative Industries Toolkit
- Rural Networking Meeting in Strabane
News
- Welding Workshop with Leitrim Sculpture Centre
- Textile workshop with Nigel Cheney
- Student Exhibition: Uncommon Objects
- Upholstery Workshops
- Naturally North Coast and Glens 2019 Workshop programme
- Blick Academy for Creative Startups: How to Transform Your Business with a Simple Newsletter with Little Pink Kitchen
- Blick Academy for Creative Startups: How to Make Connections & Build Your Network
- Antrim & Newtownabbey Craft Sector Event
- Craft Scotland Conference 2018