With over 100 Societies in University of Galway you are sure to find one for you.
- Societies Digital Badge
- New Employability Award
- ALIVE Cert (also called Presidents Award)
- Societies leadership Award as part of your ALIVE Cert
ALIVE Certs (Presidents Award)
Your members who volunteer at least 10 hours with you can apply for an ALIVE cert with you. In your dashboard you can reject any applications (but e-mail applicants with a reason) and up date their hours, this is done after the individual deadline, you also need to add in a short description of your society and you can upload a photo. Committee members details are added in automatically to the award section in yourspace.nuigalway.ie
You can get an ALIVE Cert without the Society Leadership Award but not the other way around.
You need to have held at least 8 events this year. (4 this year)
100 members
Personal Eligibility Requires
Answering your first question and your end-of-year reflection in the leadership section in your dashboard.
completing the short survey in the leadership section
attending training*
Applying to do the ALIVE cert in yourspace.nuigalway.ie
* If you attended a training session during the year or completed 2 e-learning modules in the societies dashboard you have already been added in and you will see the training button is green.
You will also receive a digital badge when you have completed all the steps above including the training requirement, completed your end of year personal reflection and the society has completed its end of year report.
Digital badges are an online method of recognising, accrediting and displaying achievements, skills or participation. The Society badges received by our members acts as a verifiable record of their participation as a society committee member.
The badge can be claimed via a link that gives access to the Open Badges Passport, a mini e-portfolio system where one can store and display badges online. In practice, one can collect badges from multiple organisations, store the badges online and display them as one choose, eg. on website, social network or blog.
Each individual elected committee member must:
Hold a committee position on the dashboard
Complete the start of the years aims & end of year reflection and the committee member survey
You must be part of an Eligible Society
Society Eligibility requires:
Each badge contains the year it was issued, more details of the societies level of activity can be found in the specific year book at this link https://socs.nuigalway.ie/page.php?id=NA==
Employability Award
Note the Employability workshop is now a 1 hour zoom workshop (see timetable) plus an e-module.
Your work on the committee counts towards your hours.
Your society training (one virtual session on zoom or 2 e-modules) will be added automatically by the SocsBox.
You will be able to see the full list of all the Careers Events in Connect plus check out the current list here. The events also appear on the student calendar.
In YourSpace you complete the reflection, upload a CV and do an online interview.
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