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Todhchaí Inbhuanaithe a Spreagadh / Inspiring a Sustainable Future #TUDublinSustainability 🌍
male sifts through a box of items beside a yellow machine which says sustainable design studio
A TU Dublin initiative responds to the growing need for designers with a deeper understanding of circular economies & sustainable design practice. Lecturers in Product Design (TU811) have reimagined how students relate to the products they design. Read more: www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
14.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great work by our colleague Azza Silotry Naik, from the School of Food Science and Environmental Health featuring in this morning’s @irishtimes.com Some very valuable work on reduction of food waste being carried out there! @drmarkhenry.bsky.social @kosull.bsky.social @tudublinsustain.bsky.social
14.08.2025 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1 female and 2 male hold large computer equipment
🌍💻Technology is transforming our world—but at a cost. High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms can consume as much energy as a small city. At TU Dublin’s HPC Nexus Laboratory, researchers are tackling this head-on. Read more: www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
13.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
👷 Volunteers from Amazon in the Community, @gapireland.bsky.social & Blakestown Drive Community Group worked side by side to transform a patch of green into a thriving habitat for wildlife on the campus, creating a welcoming environment for amphibians, insects, & birds. 🐸🪲
21.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍃 In a vibrant activity of partnership, community & action for the environment, #tudublin has unveiled a new Stepping Stones Pond at the GLAS at TU Dublin community garden, Blanchardstown campus.
Read more: tinyurl.com/22z2h2uz
#TUDublinSustainability @gapireland.bsky.social
Applications for the awards are coordinated and supported by TU Dublin's Sustainability Eduction Team, and together with finalists, they are now working on their stage 2 applications with judging taking place at a ceremony on 06 November in the Library of Birmingham. @bgormley.bsky.social
18.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🏆 #TUDublinSustainability is a #GreenGownAwards 2025 finalist in 5 categories (1 of 2 HEIs finalists in the Rep of Ireland among 112). Of the shortlisted TU Dublin & University of Sunderland are tied with the most nominations at five each!
@theeauc.bsky.social www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Congratulations! See you at the ceremony! 💚
18.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧪 After a thorough assessment of lab equipment, practices, & products, the Nanolab Research Centre achieved a score of 92%, and the Radiation & Environmental Science Centre an incredible 96% - securing 'Green' accreditation for both, the highest My Green Lab accolade in sustainable lab practices 🔬
18.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
two girls with medical masks working in a university lab
🌱 Double Green! 💚 #TUDublinSustainability is thrilled that both the Radiation & Environmental Science Centre and the NanoLab Research Centre have achieved Green #MyGreenLab certification www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Congrats Dr Furong Tian, Prof Fiona Lyng & My Green Lab Coordinator Sarah Maher.
🌱Litter picks are a simple and effective way of carrying out collective #ClimateAction. Find out what our students and staff did to benefit the local environment, enhance well-being & promote social responsibility. 🌱 shorturl.at/5Yxci
11.07.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ireland faces a dual challenge: an aging population & a housing crisis. Ava Housing CLG offers a smart solution—retrofitting homes for older adults to create new rental units.
TU Dublin architecture students co-designed a POE to support this model. www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Congrats to GEMINI partner @tudublinsustain.bsky.social for top 100 placing in THE Impact Rankings 2025 for sustainability www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou... Read about the island of Ireland’s first deep geothermal exploratory borehole at Grangegorman campus 👉 geminigeothermal.com/grangegorman/
04.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
3 white females and 2 white males hold up SDG signs 2,4 and 12 & reusable bread bags in bakery uniforms in kitchen.
🍞TU Dublin Bakery students led a campaign to reduce food and packaging waste by introducing reusable bread bags—replacing cling film & single-use plastics. www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
07.07.2025 14:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
2030 climate targets are looming & organisations must cut Scope 3 emissions—especially in procurement.Seán Mc Caffrey @irishrail.bsky.social leads the way, advancing #SDG12 through sustainable supply chains.Hear more from Seán as a Sustainability Leadership graduate.
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
group of students listening to a man talking at point of interest.one nearby poster reads Citizen Science
Tourism can uplift small places—but growth must be sustainable with mutual benefit. TU Dublin Tourism students teamed up with Chapelizod locals in Dublin 20 to co-create digital tools that reflect community values & spark regenerative tourism. 🌍✨
30.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
10 women and 1 man at IHPC Conference screen backdrop, one holds sign for Campas Slántiúl
The 2025 International Health Promoting Campuses (IHPC) Conference at UL celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Okanagan Charter, International Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Colleges. @tudublin.bsky.social presented on our ongoing commitment to the Healthy Campus initiative.
27.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Group of 14 white female and male stand in wooded area smiling towards camera
🌱 BSc Horticulture students collaborate with Avista adult learners through Social & Therapeutic Horticulture—fostering inclusion, empathy & hands-on learning while supporting QQI Level 4 achievements. 👏
26.06.2025 09:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As part of The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025, #TUDublin has ranked in the Top 100 universities globally for:
🔆 Rank 52 - SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
🌍 Rank 57 - SDG 13: Climate Action
#SDG7
#SDG13
#TUDublinSustainability
#ImpactRankings2025
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
About a dozen Pyramidal Orchids growing in long grass.
Nice to see some nature around the campus. These Pyramidal Orchids are growing beside the @tudublin.bsky.social Library in Park House. Sand Martins have fledged a family nesting in the wall of @grangegormandev.bsky.social. Nice work @tudublinsustain.bsky.social and Campus & Estates.
20.06.2025 10:52 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
campaign poster for reduce your use.8 coloured ice pops in poster.
As we say goodbye to our students for the summer, we want to send a reminder to power down what you will not be using.
💡We urge you to switch off appropriate devices & equipment to ease pressure on the national grid and champion the ‘Reduce Your Use’ campaign. 🌿
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Over the past year our Societal Engagement team has been designing a new storytelling platform. Impact Stories showcases how TU Dublin is creating positive impact & advancing UN SDGs through engagement with societal partners. Browse by SDG or Faculty & be inspired!
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Colourful graphics with mono photo of three TU Dublin graduates - text reads sustainability graduate Spotlight and has their names and profiles. Click the link to read each.
Best of luck to all Leaving Certificate students across Ireland today! 📚 For those who want to go on to third level education remember there are many pathways to #HigherEducation - check out our Sustainability Graduate Spotlight Series www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
#TUDublinSustainability
Absolutely delighted that Kirk McCormack of @tudublin.bsky.social Architecture has won the prestigious Jennifer Burke Award for the Sustainable Sleepout student project. Shout-out also to Glenn Loughran from Arts & Humanities - highly commended! @emmet.quiddity.ie @tudublinsustain.bsky.social
30.05.2025 19:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The auditorium at edtech with Eamon and Alison on stage.
So many wonderful submissions
The incredible @aliegan.bsky.social announced the Jennifer Burke Award to teaching and learning. ilta.ie/edtech-2025/... #edtech25
30.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
TU Dublin staff warm up for relay race on Grangegorman campus
Warm-up time! 9 TU Dublin staff teams across all campuses ran, jogged or walked the staff relay 3km & 5km course last night at the Grangegorman campus as part of our #HealthyCampus initiatives. #SDG3
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Group of people stand in circle outdoors with both hands on a rope for the stepping into the doughnut workshop
Social Care students partnered with Walkinstown Association for People with an Intellectual Disability (WALK) to co-create on a project on advocacy, disability rights, and the real-world application of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
Lesley Barret pictured in Sustainability Graduate Spotlight two colour graphic background
TU Dublin's Strategic Intent to 2030, has an objective to establish a new generation of graduates who will lead the sustainability agenda with passion and purpose. This edition of the Sustainability Spotlight Graduate Series spotlights on Lesley Barrett www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
22.05.2025 14:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
two males and two females hold certificate, TU Dublin sign and STARS sign outdoors on grangegorman campus
🏆TU Dublin Ranked 1st in Europe for Sustainability in Higher Education 🌍Fantastic news! We've been awarded the highly prestigious Gold accreditation from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
20.05.2025 16:14 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
This #ClimateAction & #SustainableDevelopment course is very welcome. I’m meeting teachers of the new course at a Symposium in Airfield today. Looking forward to seeing how @tudublinsustain.bsky.social can support them.
New Leaving Cert course aims to promote climate activism. #SDGs
