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Celebrating Community Recovery, Care & Resilience


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Community Week 2021

Community Week is a week long programme of free public and community events that celebrates community engagement with UCC across our campus and beyond. All year round groups and communities partner with UCC. Together we are creating a more inclusive, ethical and sustainable society that can recover, adapt to and overcome the challenges ahead.

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15 Oct 2021

UCC students and residents come together for street clean

UCC Students' Union and the Magazine Road Residents Association joined forces for the first time to spruce up their shared neighbourhood.
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15 Oct 2021

UCC President John O'Halloran launches UCC Gaisce Project

The UCC Gaisce Project was officially launched on October 11, at 6pm, in Boole Basement 4, as part of UCC Community Week. Guest speakers included the President of UCC, Professor John O'Halloran, the CEO of Gaisce, Yvonne McKenna, and UCC Alumnus and Member of the Gaisce Council, Dr. Ali Khan. 
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Entre Mundos/Between Worlds Exhibition Community Week 2019. Image by Ger McCarthy
14 Oct 2021

Engaged Legacies, Future Challenges

During the Community Week event 'Reconnecting Communities: Healing, Recovery, and Looking to the Future', the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at UCC launch a new publication that puts a spotlight on civic and community engagement in their College. 
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11 Oct 2021

Cork City needs thousands more trees to offset carbon emissions

Survey of trees in South Parish underlines need for a massive scaling-up of tree planting targets here, researchers say.
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Keynote Talks

'University in the Era of Climate Change: New Directions and Possibilities'

Join us for a guest keynote by Prof Keri Facer - Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol. UCC President Prof. John O'Halloran is respondent to this keynote talk that looks at the opportunity for Universities to play a leading role in the social, economic and cultural changes needed to address the causes and consequences of a changing climate.

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'Healthy Cities - The Future of Public Health'

Join guest keynote Prof. Martin McKee, founding director of European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition together with Prof. Ivan Perry, Dean of Public Health at UCC and Denise Cahill, Cork Healthy Cities Coordinator as they take a local to global look at the future of public health.

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