Building the next-gen workforce for the UK’s games, immersive and real-time 3D industries.
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Inspire. Improve. Innovate.
PROTOGÉ is developing a next-generation talent pipeline to help games, immersive and real-time 3D businesses solve their skills and experience gaps by enabling hands-on, professional development opportunities within studios.
It inspires, improves and innovates to help academia and business leaders develop next generation talent. It empowers the next generation of creative digital talent by enabling hands-on, high-quality professional development opportunities that bridge their skills and experience gaps and meet the needs of the UK’s booming industry.
Inspire.
Mckenzie
Work Experience QA Tester
North East Futures UTC
“The experience has inspired me to pursue a career in the immersive industry, which I’m now able to do thanks to my PROTOGÉ mentor’s IAG.”
Improve.
Ebony
Next-Gen 3D Character Artist
Bournemouth University
“PROTOGÉ helped me to synthesise what I have learnt at university through practical application. I’ve developed my skills way faster with hands-on work and tailored mentorship.”
Innovate.
Callum
Interactive Real-Time 3D Developer
St Thomas Moore Catholic School
“You can tell [the team] really cares about us and that they’re invested in developing our skills so we succeed. I really enjoyed my time and now have a job offer in the industry.”
Amazing partners. Excellent opportunities.
Business leader, academic or local authority?
Help us build the next generation talent pipeline for the games, immersive and real-time 3D industries.
Who we’re elevating…
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The skills gap we’re bridging…
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“97% of the immersive economy lack appropriate skills.”
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“Demand for AR/VR talent is up by 1,400%”
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“Real-time 3D is associated with a large salary premium: 57% above the average advertised salary and 18% above the average advertised salary for jobs requesting 3D graphics skills in general.”
Bridging the gap.
Founder of PROTOGÉ - Dan Baird - alongside the first hire from the PROTOGÉ cohorts, Josh.
PROTOGÉ is a community interest company (CIC) that provides innovative work-based training opportunities that develop the best real-time interactive 3D talent for the UK’s digital sector.
Through our engagement activities at PROTOGÉ we’re able help an individual realise the potential for them to aspire to a high-tech, high paid and exportable career in the games, immersive and real-time 3D industries. We promote opportunities most fitting of the individual and the market demand - based on their past experience and interests.
What makes us unique is that we work with our partners - in particular, INFINITY27, an open game studio - to give these individuals real-world professional development opportunities in the form of work experience, apprenticeships, placements and internships. These hands-on experiences give individuals the time and attention to practice and hone their skills in a live environment, as well as to develop their professional behaviour’s and competencies, ready for their future careers.
PROTOGÉ makes more employable individuals, who are being more usefully employed within these industries.
Read on to find out how we do this through out three strand approach to the skills gap problem…
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We engage with students and young adults early to show them the opportunities that lie within the games, immersive and real-time 3D industries. Through our passion to improve opportunities for the next generation, we’ve inspired and advised on routes into education and industry for a range of students and graduates.
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We go further to place students and graduates into real-world experiences, through work experience weeks, sandwich placements and graduate internships. We work with subject specialists to ensure our PROTOGÉs develop skills and competencies that will last their careers, across multiple digital creative industries.
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We drive innovation into industry by preparing and supplying the next generation of talent for work in the games, immersive and real-time 3D industries. Our PROTOGÉs move on to secure employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in these industries shortly after engaging with us.
“PROTOGÉ is an innovative approach applied to an industry that is desperately trying to bridge a widening skills gap, despite the advancement of technology and tools that enable and democratise the design and production of creative digital content. The reason we succeed where others have failed is that we’re purpose driven. PROTOGÉ exists to empower the next generation to achieve and attain through focused development and the fruits of their own labour; not to profit from it.”