About us
What is the spunout academy?
spunout academy is a free online learning space for building knowledge and skills that support your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The academy contains a collection of interactive learning courses designed to build knowledge, understanding, and skills that help you cope with a range of social, environmental and personal issues that can impact your mental health. These courses use a mix of compact explainers, engaging videos, and interactive activities to help you develop real-world skills you can apply in your everyday life.
Academy courses are designed in bite-sized building blocks so you can pick them up, put them down, and learn at your own pace. Each course has been developed with the help of experts so you know what you’re learning is accurate and up-to-date. The academy also works with real young people to make sure every programme is interesting, easy to use and relevant to young people’s lives.
Person-centred learning
Validated by experts
Lived experience voices
Gain practical skills
What is micro-learning?
spunout academy uses micro-learning to build courses that are flexible, easy to use, practical and impactful. Micro-learning is a way of introducing content to learners in bite-sized chunks. Each chunk of micro-learning content is focused on addressing a need and has specific learning outcomes attached to it.
Micro-learning puts you in control of what you learn and when you learn it, and the pace at which you learn. This makes it easier to integrate learning new skills into your life in ways that work for you.
About spunout
spunout is Ireland’s youth information and support platform, working towards an Ireland where all young people are supported and empowered to thrive. spunout has a range of free, accessible and free services that are there for you whenever you need them. If it matters to you, it matters to us.
Through our platform and channels, spunout shares factual information on mental health and wellbeing. We provide immediate, free and anonymous text support to anyone who wants to talk. We share the stories and experiences of young people across Ireland to amplify our voices, and so that we all feel a little less alone. We can also connect you to trusted services and resources around the country for further support.
Our aim is to support young people to be informed, feel empowered and heard, and to support our peers to access opportunities and services to help us achieve our full potential.
spunout is by young people, for young people and we work collaboratively with other young people to support our mental health and wellbeing. A community of young contributors and volunteers powers our services, guides the work we do, and ensures we stay true to our values and mission.
