Future Space Induction Activities – January 2024
Future Space is YOUR space to prepare for your future. The Future Space team are here to help you gain the skills and experiences to help you stand out. We provide our students with entrepreneurial careers support that is dedicated to helping them with their studies and the next step in their career. We provide opportunities to network, gain experience and skills whether you are looking for that, post-graduation job, or developing your own business – Future Space is for you.
The Future Space team supports all students and graduates at whatever stage their career is at. The team offer Mentoring, Careers 121s, business advice and much more.
For more information, please visit our Careers website.
Important: All of the activities offered through Future Space, including induction activities, require activation of your Handshake account – Please ensure that you have activated your Handshake account to sign up!
At Future Space, students can:
- Access industry mentoring – join our Monday Mentoring Programme
- Book a 121 careers appointment
- Access Future Space's Handshake platform to sign up to workshops, hackathons and events
- Look for volunteering, internship and job opportunities through Future Space CONNECT
- Connect with industry, employers and organisations through Careers Insight Events
- Learn how the Collaborative Project can help build skills and add experience to your CV
- Get advice on starting your own business
- Gain an additional award to show their investment in your career through Personal Best London
The Future Space team are hosting some events to help you to meet the team and learn more about everything we have to offer (please note that we have limited capacity for each event so sign up soon!):
Induction: FUTURE SPACE Welcome event
Wednesday 31 January 17:30-19:30.
Join the team for a brief introduction to the Future Space offer, including an overview of such activities as:
- Personal Best London
- Future Space CONNECT
- Monday Mentoring
- Collaborate
- LEN (Loughborough Enterprise Network)
- Careers consultations, workshops and resources
This will be followed by an opportunity to network with team members, colleagues and recent alumni to learn more about how the Future Space offer can compliment and support your future career plans. Refreshments and nibbles will be provided.
Sign up to the Future Space welcome eventINDUCTION: Information session on Collaborative Project and Collaborative Dissertation.
Thursday 1 February 10.00-11.00am, please check your timetable for location.
Join Amy Pyle, Learning Partnerships Manager and the Future Space team, as we take an introductory look at all things Collaborate. Available to all students the Collaborate programme provides the opportunity to apply your learning and previous knowledge to develop solutions to real world challenges as part of your academic curriculum, while gaining additional key skills and experience for your future ambitions.
Collaborate is made up of two academic modules:
- The Collaborative Project – working in student teams on a brief provided by an organisation.
- The Collaborative Dissertation – working individually on a research question provided by or developed with an organisation.
This event is timetabled for all January 2024 starters - No need to sign up but do check your timetable for details.
INDUCTION: Sustainable Fashion Hack
Friday 2 February, 09:30-16:30
How do you fancy winning a cash prize by making the Fashion industry more sustainable?
The fashion industry contributes up to 10% of global carbon emissions with a single pair of jeans requiring 7,600 litres of water to be produced. How can this be? Surely we can do better.
The award winning Future Space team invites all new January starters, current students and recent alumni to a team based sprint to build a better fashion industry.
Our hacks help build in demand industry skills that will be useful for your career and teamwork modules like the Collaborative Project. We will be looking at production, distribution and recycling to see if there are ways to build a better industry.
You don't need to be interested in fashion, business or anything else to take part - just bring your curiosity and you will be fine. This hackathon offers students and recent alumni the opportunity to come together to learn, create, test, prototype and present their ideas to do something amazing and tackle some of the big environmental challenges facing the fashion industry. We will be offering a cash prize to the winning team. So, what are you waiting for - get signed up now!
Sign up to the Sustainable Fashion HackImportant Note
Please note that all events require sign up to allow us to prepare sufficiently for seating arrangements, safety considerations and catering as required.