Entrepreneurship Course for People with Disabilities
Open Doors offers entrepreneurship courses in collaboration with TU Dublin, both offered at NFQ Level 6 of the Irish National Framework of Qualifications. The course runs online for 12 weeks, with weekly lectures and guest speakers. Participants are allocated a business mentor to support them in developing their business idea. Two courses are offered annually.
Funded by AIB, this course is open to anyone who self-identified as having a disability and wishes to start their own business.
With thanks to TU Dublin and AIB for their continued collaboration on these courses.
As a result of Open Doors, I’ve been able to set up my production company after doing an entrepreneurship course for people with disabilities thanks to AIB. It’s been kind of life changing, really. The way they structured it and the way they broke it down weekly, I felt capable and I felt like I could complete this task. I just felt like there was a future actually, which I wasn’t feeling at the time. It’s been on my list to set up a production company for years and I just couldn’t. I would get so far and it would just become overwhelming and I couldn’t do it. To have support and to recognise that you need support… so I’d say go for itSiún O'Connor, Open Doors Participant