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A new way of thinking
In February 2024, our Expo pilot event, Come & Play for 14-18 year olds showed that learning interactively sparks interest far better than conventional careers fairs. Trials included:-
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Arts and crafts
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Digital and immersive equipment
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Electric driving sessions
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Fitness equipment
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Hair & Beauty
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Holographic tables and digital/ drone projections
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Interactive gaming
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Medical prep training, reaction walls
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Music and staging
The aim for 18-20 March 2025 is to showcase the pathways and career choices on offer to all age groups with immersive, interactive and exciting exhibits borne out of the pilot to demonstrate real opportunities, inspire career destinations and highlight transferrable skills in Sunderland.
Free to attend
Schools & colleges
During term time and late opening times for adults, older teens, college students, working parents and carers:-
- Divert your limited resources from your own open days and bring your pupils and students by volume to something bigger.
- Pre-event tools to capture interests to help tailor your trips to the event.
- Employer-led insight to outline the challenges and solutions to help address barriers to entry.
Students 14-18?
- Meet your friends and other schools or colleges in one place.
- Experience cool technologies and activities in a different atmosphere at scale.
- Attend coaching, mentoring and further education readiness sessions.
- Hear from real students and early career ambassadors about their own journeys to success that you can relate to.
- Discover tech experts and creative industries to understand the variety of practical skillsets to inspire your career path.
For adults and graduates
- Meet the Sunderland employers with apprenticeships, job openings, flexible working hours and future opportunities all under one roof.
- Attend triage sessions to capture your existing skills and interests and secure at-event interviews.
- Discover new industries, upskilling trades, changing roles and tools for starting your own business.
- Learn how to be work or start-up ready and future proof your career.
Industry Zones - inspiring career paths
The exhibition hall will be split into zones and organised by industry or educational experts from our Event Advisory Board.
The Event Advisory Board includes more than 30 local business people and educationalists from organisations including Nissan, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, North East Screen and Vantec, to focus on how Expo Sunderland can showcase the high-quality careers available in the city as well as pathways to opportunities, as Sunderland transforms and in a new way.
Get involved
Can you spark curiosity for schools and colleges or adults and graduates to break from the norm to attract an audience of scale looking for answers?
We are inviting new and emerging industries and educators in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automotive design, animation and graphics, biotechnology, healthcare and science, Esports, film lighting and production and modern methods of construction and more!
Enterprise & Innovation Zone
UKSPF Funding
Expo Sunderland has received funding from UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, to support businesses with a programme of activities in partnership with Innovation SuperNetwork.
Innovation SuperNetwork
Innovation SuperNetwork are aiming to stimulate the development of start-ups & scale-ups on Wearside with the opportunity to co-develop solutions and then showcase progress within the Expo Sunderland programme in 2024/2025.
Event Advisory Board and Supporting Partners
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