IAPI this week celebrated the graduation of over 25 students from the Business in The Community & IAPI World of Work programme.  This week’s grad ceremony marked the 6th run of the programme for students from Holy Child Community School, Sallynoggin.  The program is built around five separate school engagements themed around creativity, sustainability, career paths, site visits and soft skills that need to be developed at this early stage for a successful career path.

“I really enjoyed learning how ads were made through creativity and research” Stephanie WoW Student.

Iapi and Business in the Community are grateful for the contributions from IAPI members, without your participation this initiative would not be possible – Core, Forsman & Bodenfors, Havas Media, PHD and Omnicom Media.

“We were delighted to host 20 interesting and engaged 14-year-olds in our office.   Explaining what media agencies do is not always easy but the students proved their understanding when they presented back brilliant ideas to us after we briefed them on a movie launch.   All presenters really enjoyed their time with the students and we would not hesitate to engage in the Business in Community initiative again next year” Gemma Teeling, (MD) PHD.

If you would like any further information regarding this programme please contact Keith.oconnor@ccai.ie