March 2019
Sector engagement roundtable event
Summary This is an opportunity to engage with other local employers and gain awareness of the myriad of STEM related educational engagement opportunities in the South West. This will allow you to discuss the challenges that you may face with recruitment of STEM skills in your organisation and also to consider how you may be able to engage and inspire students who may well be your future workforce. This meeting will have a focus on the renewable energy and digital…
Find out more »Discover how Edtech, Gamification and Digital Technologies can support teaching, learning and training for students and employees
Join us at Plymouth College of Art for this interactive and informative event to explore the Erasmus + Triple E-dge project and its central themes of Edtech and Gamification to support teaching and learning both in the classroom, studio and the workplace. Come and learn, as well as share your knowledge with colleagues and experts in these emerging and disruptive fields of education. You can expect talks, discussion and even try one of the prototype mini games being developed as…
Find out more »Spring Placement & Graduate Careers Fair
The University of Plymouth are pleased to announce that we will be holding our first Spring Placement & Graduate Careers Fair on Tuesday 26th March 2019 between 11:00 – 15:00 and would like you to attend! This event is open and targeted to students from all degree courses and is a perfect opportunity for organisations who: Still have placement or graduate vacancies starting Summer or Autumn 2019 Have summer internships or work experience opportunities for Summer 2019 Would like to raise awareness of their company and its…
Find out more »Charities in the Digital Age: Summit
Cosmic have recently been awarded funding from the Government Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and OCS to provide Digital Leadership training to 10 charities in the South West. The project, known as “Charities in the Digital Age”, aims to provide charities with sought-after training to aid their development of future digital strategies and transformation. The training with these charities has been underway since February and draws to a conclusion at the end of March. To share our…
Find out more »Growth through Acquisition
Growth through Acquisition is an opportunity to understand why acquisition may be the strategic pathway to help your business grow, enter new markets or build new capability. This event, sponsored by ThinCats - pioneers of alternative finance and lenders of circa £400m to businesses, will bring the best SW expertise together to unlock the answers to those acquisition questions you may have. This event is for Leaders and Owners of SMEs across the South West Peninsula who are either considering acquisition activity or…
Find out more »April 2019
South West Worklessness Health and Work Network Meeting
The meeting will include presentations from: Dr Dominque Thompson - ‘Young People’s Mental Health’ What’s happening, why it’s happening and what we can do about it in the workplace. Nick Gazzard – ‘Working without Fear’. Raising awareness of domestic abuse, coercive control and stalking in the workplace. Please book a place by contacting Michelle Youd below.
Find out more »Citizens’ Panels with the Bank of England
The Bank of England wants to speak to ordinary people about their experiences of the economy. It is an opportunity for people to give their views directly to a senior person from the Bank of England as well as ask questions directly. The panel will be a small group of people from the area, and we want to hear about all aspects of their experience of the economy – whether it is wages, employment, prices, access to banking services or anything…
Find out more »Fast Track to Growth Business Festival
Dartington Hall will be the venue for this year’s Fast Track 2 Growth Business Festival. Open to every business in Devon, the annual event is now in its third year, offering an array of business growth focused seminars and 1-1s with specialists in business strategy, customer service, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, legal and HR. The free festival has four themes for this year, ‘Making Business Intelligence work for you’, ‘Personalisation in customer service, HR, sales and marketing’, ‘B2B and B2C…
Find out more »May 2019
Growth through Acquisition
Growth through Acquisition is an opportunity to understand why acquisition may be the strategic pathway to help your business grow, enter new markets or build new capability. This event, sponsored by ThinCats - pioneers of alternative finance and lenders of circa £400m to businesses, will bring the best SW expertise together to unlock the answers to those acquisition questions you may have. This event is for Leaders and Owners of SMEs across the South West Peninsula who are either considering acquisition activity or…
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