Are you curious about pursuing education in sustainability and climate action? Interested in online learning, and want to find out if it's the right fit for you?

As part of the Lifelong Learning Festival, you're invited to our free event to meet the Sustainable Futures team and learn about our suite of new subsidised short courses on topics such as sustainable business, systems thinking, sustainable energy, and more.

• Find out what Micro Credentials are and how they can work for you
• Get a taste of the online learning experience
• Explore our diverse range of short and stackable courses to upskill or reskill for your future
• Learn about our courses from the lecturers themselves, and ask all your questions!

Date: Friday April 12th

Time: 4-6pm

Location: Iris Ashley Cummins Building, University College Cork

Cost: Completely FREE!

To register, please fill out the online form.

The team at Sustainable Futures are delighted to offer our sincere congratulations to the first ever graduates of our flagship programme, the MSc in Sustainability in Enterprise, after two years of hard work and dedication to achieve their goal. 

The students of this fully online programme gathered today in University College Cork to celebrate their conferring, along with hundreds of other students graduating from a range of programmes across the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science.

Sustainable Futures is delighted to offer an 80% subsidy on MicroCredential learner fees, under a new initiative from HCI Pillar 3. Courses address skills in key priority areas, including sustainability and renewable energy, via a range of brand new Microcredentials in 2024, including:

• Level 9 Postgraduate
• 5-Credit, 10-Credit or 30-Credit options
• Online and Blended study modes

Speaking today, Minister Harris said “It’s also important to note that that these courses cover critical areas such as new and emerging technologies, construction and Climate/Sustainability and Energy, and align with the priorities outlined as part of Housing for All and the Government’s Climate Action Plan.”

A night of new stories on climate action and sustainable futures. We all need stories that enable us to see, believe in and act on the possibilities for change. We need to chart new directions to leave the old stories behind. On this Culture Night, we will gather at the Sustainable Futures Lab to discuss what drives our ideas to shape and imagine the future we long for. We will find stories of liveable cities and futures, stories that motivate and empower us to be creative and to do what it takes to make the world we need. To change our relationship to the physical world and each another means changing how we think about everything – joy, power, time, space, nature, value, what constitutes a good life, what matters, and how change happens. Jointly, we will paint a picture of how these different stories come together to build hope for a new world.

The Higher Education Authority (HEA) launched its mid-term evaluation report on the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) Pillar 3 projects on 29 June 2023, as part of the Collaboration Nation conference event at the Convention Centre Dublin.

Sustainable Futures was delighted to host an enterprise engagement event Tuesday last, 25th April. 

The aim of the Sustainable Futures Enterprise Engagement Day was to reinforce the convening power of our enterprise and university sustainability leaders' network. During the day, enterprises discussed sustainability challenges and solutions, as well as discuss synergies and potential collaboration opportunities between Sustainable Futures and enterprise partners.

• Higher education institutes join forces with enterprise partners to co-develop educational programmes focused on sustainability, decarbonisation, circular economy and business leadership.
• Significant €3.9m Sustainable Futures project is led by University College Cork in collaboration with Maynooth University and Atlantic Technological University.
• Industry partners include Microsoft, Carbery Group, Mannok Holdings, Glenveagh Properties, Musgraves, Logitech, PM Group, Glanbia, Kepak, CIE Group, EirGrid, ESB, Davy Horizons and Blue Planet Consulting.
• Sustainable Futures develops solutions for a sustainable, net zero and nature-positive future and aims to empower industry and enterprise to transition to a net zero carbon future

An international ranking which examines sustainability practices in universities across the world, has ranked University College Cork (UCC) today at eighth, the only Irish university to make the top 10 of the ‘greenest universities’ in the world. UCC was ranked at ninth in the annual world ranking last year.