The SmartEdu Challenge, celebrates Tech Week and Robotics Week 2020 through an online club. Access activity sheets, stories and animated videos all about science and technology. 

The Glucksman's 'Creativity from Home' initiative provides creative activities for parents and kids with free video tutorials, activity sheets to downloads and online support and encouragement from the Glucksman team. Now also featuring on RTE Homeschool Hub!

Happy Talk is a part of the HSE Speech and Language Therapy Service. They worked together with UCC Speech and Language Therapy Department. to make the Happy Talk Monster Pack - full of ideas and activities to do at home.

Local radio plays a particularly important role in a being a companion to elderly people who may live alone, or feel isolated during this difficult time. In this show, UCC researcher and academic Dr Rosarii Griffin interviews academics and researchers on aspects of their work related to COVID-19 and of general public interest.  A series of interviews from UCC were not only used for 'The Perspective Show', but were also made available to other Radio Presenters in the Youghal Studio, during a time when access to people to interview during these time of phycial distancing is difficult. 

Across our communities, in windows and woodlands, on streets, and pavements, people have been inspired to create artwork during the pandemic. The Viral Archive project aims to capture the visual record of the signs, marks, and graffiti that are keeping us safe, together, and uplifted during this pandemic. Through this living archive project researchers are documenting these visual records of this unique and unusual time. They invite you to submit your pictures. 

An on-line initiative that invites Irish artists to respond to the COVID 19 restrictions. Home from Home is intended as a way to provide insight into the extraordinary situation of being confined to home during the COVID 19 pandemic. 

During an April of lockdown, this series shared a daily dose of poems and short stories from the community of writers associated with the MA in Creative Writing at UCC. The online "Creative Corona" series features students, graduates and established writers associated with Creative Writing at UCC.

What will happen to the record of ordinary people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the social media posts are gone? The Cork Folklore Project is carrying out a country-wide archival collection project, and you can contribute by adding your voice. 

Run as part of UCC's Keep Well initiative, our weekly yoga and online mindfulness workshops are free and open for all to attend. 

We have compiled a list of links to helpful online learning resources from libraries, archives, galleries, museums and other ogranisations across the globe. Check it out, and let us know about others to add at civic@ucc.ie.

The corona virus has resulted in the cancellation of much-needed physiotherapy sessions for people with Parkinson’s disease as well as those recovering from cancer – but classes are now online with the arena clinic as part of the Mardyke Arena UCC #KeepingCorkHealthy Campaign.

The Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research (INFANT) at UCC has created a dedicated Hub for families, researchers and healthcare professionals to find factual, up-to-date, and accessible information about pregnancy, birth, and early childhood during COVID-19. 

The Aphasia Café is an initiative of Dr Helen Kelly and her Speech and Language Therapy students (UCC Clinical Therapies Society) to support people living with language difficulties following a stroke or other brain injury. Unfortunately, current nationwide restrictions on gathering and socialising had seen the group have to pause their usual meetings. The good news is that they are now launching Ireland’s first Aphasia Home Café where people with aphasia in Ireland can sip their favourite cuppa while chatting with each other and us online.

The UCC Keep Well Hub provides useful advice and links to help us look after our health and wellbeing, both mental and physical during these challenging times.

In partnership with Cork Sports Partnership, Cork City Council and the Evening Echo, UCC Sport and Mardyke Arena are working to Keep Cork Healthy, providing an online series of information and resources to stay fit and well during COVID-19. 

Uncertainty is a hot topic during this pandemic. From organisational psychologists Terri Morrissey and Richard Plenty, the newly published e-book 'Uncertainty Rules? Making uncertainty work for you' focuses on protecting ourselves from anxiety rather than looking for long term sustainable solutions to the complex challenges that we face. 

In partnership with Creative Ireland, organiser of Cruinniú na nÓg, a free online Drama workshop was held on Sat 13 June as part of Cruinniú na nÓg. The workshop was open to young people aged 14 - 18 with an interest in gaining theatre skills, developing creatively and meeting new people. 

PhD Research Student Ryan Gallagher has published a free online teaching support to Leaving Certificate science students. The website was originally intended to specifically support students from disadvantaged backgrounds whose parents may not be in a position to obtain extra supports. With the current circumstances it has proven to be a useful resource for all leaving cert students.