+ ABOUT AMMA

AmmA is a Creative Learning Centre for the Education Authority, Northern Ireland. It is a centre where technology alongside traditional media can be used creatively by schools, organisations, the youth sector and the community.

We offer professional learning programmes that are tailored to the curricular, and extra-curricular, demands of the education sector in Northern Ireland. In addition, we offer annual partnership programmes that have been accelerating the creative use of technology in our schools for over 15 years.

Furthermore, through our association with NI Screen and strong industry links, we support a series of annual skills academies for the benefit of ambitious young people who aspire to careers in the screen industries.

AmmA is part-funded by Department for Communities, through NI Screen, and works in partnership with the Nerve Centre and Nerve Belfast.

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+ OUR MISSION

AmmA Creative Learning aims to encourage and promote cross-fertilisation between culture, education, creativity, employability and entrepreneurship through the mediums of the arts, emerging digital technology and STEM learning. We aim to be at the forefront of educational technology developments, open to innovation and to actively promote best practice. This is achieved by:

  1. leading, facilitating and nurturing creativity through providing opportunities to work with professionals who are experts in the application of creative and digital approaches.

  2. Helping individuals develop personal satisfaction, confidence and improved self-awareness through creative process and expression.

  3. Providing professional learning that will develop skills and contribute to future education routes, employability prospects and entrepreneurship. 

  4. Supporting schools and groups in the planning, development and implementation of creative approaches to utilising creative technologies both as a learning tool and as a curriculum focus.

  5. Developing strategies that will contribute to alternative education programmes for young people.

Since 2005 a range of programmes and initiatives, both inside and outside formal education, with teachers, adult learners, children and young people has been made possible through the hard work, dedication and expertise of the AmmA Creative Learning team.