With Ireland’s vaccine roll-out underway and due to ramp-up in the months ahead, we can begin to hope that “the end is truly in sight.”

Over the next two quarters, businesses will begin to plan for a gradual re-opening of the economy and return to the offices they left behind in March 2020.

Seven new people have joined UCC Academy in recent months, reflecting the transformative shift that has occurred during the pandemic and demand for talented professionals with a proven background in innovation, creativity and communication. 

During these exceptionally challenging times, it is more important than ever that we continue to prioritise our health and wellbeing at work.

A University College Cork-led research project has received €3.2m in European funding to develop a more cost effective way to measure air pollution.

It is hoped that the research team, drawn from industry and academia and coordinated by UCC, will bring about the creation of low cost electrical sensors for detecting harmful particles in the atmosphere, and that these devices can be subsequently deployed on airplanes, ships and other platforms to monitor air quality.

For many people, compiling reports and collating data can be a task that lingers until such time as deadlines approach. 

Check out the great work from our project team supporting Cork Discovers.

Human interaction and engagement are more important than ever during this global pandemic. We’ve all been affected, and the events industry has quickly changed focus to deliver online and hybrid events with the same impact as before. 

At UCC Academy our Conference UCC team have been working behind the scenes, developing best practice for online events using a range of platforms including OnAir. 

As remote working extends from the short to the medium term, online platforms are increasingly important. And for those that moved overnight to working in the cloud, the learning curve was particularly steep.

A few weeks after the closure of UCC’s contact tracing centre, we take a look back at the exceptional volunteers who answered the call to help.  

Launched in 2019, UCC Academy’s ambitious Graduate Programme offers successful applicants the opportunity to have their voices heard while working on projects that are strategically important University College Cork.

UCC Academy’s most recent Community of Project Managers event saw Eoin Hahessy, Head of Media and PR at UCC, Michael Tobin from the University’s Audio Visual Media Services unit, and Judie Russell, Communications Project Manager with UCC Academy, discuss the importance of communications in a socially distant world.

EU Project Manager and Nutritionist Jackie Lyons shares tips on remote working as part of our Bite-Size learning series. 

UCC Academy considers holistic staff supports and makes plans to return as a paperless office

Hear from members of our project management team in this podcast from UCC Academy.

On 3 September 2019, Sinéad Harding, Head of UCC Project Centre, was invited to speak at the Project Managers Network event at the Printworks, Dublin Castle.

On Friday 27^th September, Cork will be joining 24 other cities across Europe in celebrating European Researchers' night. The aim of ‘Cork Discovers’ is to bring researchers closer to the public and to increase awareness of the impact of research on daily life.

On June 12th, the UCC Academy communications project managers and digital marketers took the first train to Dublin to attend a conference on digital marketing for the public sector at The Helix. The agenda included a packed line up of speakers starting on the topic of crisis management.

UCC Academy CEO Arlene Vithaldas presented the new business strategy to the UCC Academy team at the Mardyke Arena on 23rd January 2018. She also welcomed the most recent joiner to the PrimeUCC team, Magdalena Tyndyk.

On March 6th, the Community of Project Managers (CoPM) held an event in the Boole Library Creative Zone on the topic of Project Governance. Project Governance is the framework by which project decisions are made. It is a critical element of any successful project, as it ensures that there is appropriate accountability and responsibility within the project team. We were delighted to be joined by some of UCC’s leaders in project governance, who shared their experiences of best practice governance frameworks and examples.

Cork is getting set to host its first European Researchers’ Night under the banner Cork Discovers – a world of research. On the night there will be a series of free events, at venues within the University College Cork campus and across the city, designed to illustrate how research impacts on our daily lives.