The National Apprenticeship Office has announced its call for nominations across the Munster region for the Generation Apprenticeship ‘Workplace Champions 2024’ awards, with nominations closing on 11th September.
This year, the National Apprenticeship Office is hoping to receive over 100 nominations to honour those people in the workplace who support, mentor and help apprentices access and unlock their potential with Generation Apprenticeship. The 2024 Workplace Champions awards, happening in December, will showcase and celebrate apprenticeship champions from workplaces, passionate about the development and success of apprentices and the apprenticeship mode of learning.
Last year’s overall national ‘Workplace Champion’ award winner was Brendan Kearns, of Designer Group (Designer Electric Limited) Dublin, with Brendan winning the overall award out of a total of 87 individual and team entries.
AWARD CATEGORIES
In the last decade, thousands of apprentices have graduated through the full range of national apprenticeships, now comprising 75 programmes spanning diverse industries that include Construction, Engineering, Biopharma, ICT, Farming, Sales, Social Work and much more.
The Workplace Champions 2024 award categories are as follows:
Mentor/Assessor: awarding individuals that work day-in day-out with apprentices, helping to ensure that they get quality training, giving of their expertise to support the next generation of talent.
Enabler/Supporter: honouring enthusiastic individuals who go the extra mile to support apprentices, such as helping those that need extra assistance in navigating the workplace.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: awarding those who act as an advocate for inclusion, celebrating and driving diversity within the workplace, promoting well-being in the workplace.
Team award: awarding a team within a company who strive to ensure the progress of apprentices, supporting, enabling and improving the quality of apprentices on-the-job. This team is for those in leadership or supporting roles, and could comprise of assessors, mentors, team leaders, shift supervisors or anyone involved in the day-to-day training of an apprentice.
INDUSTRY PRESENCE
The awards event has a strong industry presence along with current and graduate apprentices, members of the National Apprenticeship Alliance, CIF, Ibec, social partners including ICTU, SIPTU and Connect, and education and training providers.
Nominations for the 2024 awards are free and employers can submitted a nomination via the ‘Workplace Champions’ nomination form at www.apprenticeship.ie by Wednesday, 11 September.
