About

The UCC Sustainability Academy is the first university sustainability training and education unit of its kind in Ireland which uses a unique model for sustainability education delivery. The Academy programmes draw on the deep expertise of over 100 sustainability academics in UCC across 25 Schools combined with a core team of sustainability trainers and industry practitioners to contribute to programmes. We pride ourselves on delivering educational content which is cutting-edge based on the research output of 400 research papers annually within the internationally leading UCC Environmental research Institute.

We ensure that out training programmes are relevant, timely, practical and solutions focused meeting the training needs of an audience that is pressed for time. Training and education delivered through the Sustainability Academy is focused on a learner centric, engaged model which uses a blend of traditional content delivery, personal reflection, practical exercises, real life case studies, and peer-to-peer learning. These approaches to teaching have been shown to bridge the “knowledge application” gap.

The Sustainability Academy programmes are UCC accredited and can be used for attaining professional CPD recognition. Our programmes can be delivered fully on-line, hybrid, or in-person at our award winning Environmental Research Institute buildings in Cork or UCC-IMI facilities in Dublin, or in-house within organisations.