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Cultural Creative Industries Skillnet

National network for Ireland's cultural and creative sectors, providing bespoke skills training for businesses and freelancers.

Operates Ireland-wide · 7 listed services

What they do

Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet is a national network supporting businesses and freelancers across Ireland's creative and cultural industry, including animation, visual effects, film, TV, immersive technologies, digital media, music, theatre and visual arts. It was established in January 2023 as a consolidation and expansion of three earlier networks: Animation Skillnet, Screen Skillnet and Immersive Technology Skillnet. Promoted by Furthr, it designs, develops and delivers responsive, bespoke and flexible training courses to address the ongoing needs of the sector. Recent published programmes have covered legal and business aspects of animation, AI updates and rights issues for creative work, sound design and implementation for interactive media, and traineeships in animation, VFX and games. Membership is free and open to private enterprise businesses and freelancers in the creative industry. Businesses can review current training and events on the network's website or contact the network by email to discuss participation.

Cultural Creative Industries Skillnet lists 7 services on Irish Resource Hub across Ireland. The listed provision covers training, network, advisory support, programme. It addresses grow and scale, mentoring and advice, skills and training, hiring and people, innovation and r&d, productivity and lean, standards and compliance, networking and 1 other recorded support needs. 1 distinct eligibility condition is recorded across those services.

Business support information

Where they operate

Recorded as available Ireland-wide.

Types of support available

Listed provision includes training, network, advisory support, programme.

Who the support is for

Business stages
Established, Scaling
Company sizes
1–9 people, 10–49 people, 50–249 people, 250+ people
Sectors
Design / Media / AudioVisual, Digital / Technology, Cultural and creative industries
Audiences
Creative and cultural sector businesses, Freelancers

Taken from this organisation's record and its published services.

Access and eligibility

Membership is free and open to private enterprise businesses and freelancers in the creative industry.

No organisation-wide eligibility rule is recorded. Eligibility is set by each individual service, so conditions vary by service and some support may not be open to every business.

Each distinct eligibility condition recorded for this organisation's services — check the service page for the full conditions.

The same conditions also apply to 6 further services listed below.

Check access with Cultural Creative Industries Skillnet

Services and programmes (7)

Source and review