- Home
- About the College
- Governance
- College Committees & Steering Groups
- College Assembly
- College Council
- College Executive Management Committee
- College Academic Programmes and Curriculum Development Committee
- College Graduate Studies Committee
- College Research & Innovation Committee
- College Teaching Learning and Student Experience Committee
- College Student Recruitment and Outreach Committee
- College Sabbatical Research Leave Committee
- College of SEFS Adjunct Appointments Committee
- International Education Committee
- College Postgraduate Student Committee
- Athena SWAN Steering Group
- College Committees & Steering Groups
- Human Resources (UCC Access Only)
- Annual UCC STEM Awards
- Scholarships and Prizes
- Women in STEM Panel Talks
- Inaugural Professorial Lectures
- Athena SWAN in SEFS
- Proposal Calls (UCC Access Only)
- Contact Us
- Science in Society Public Lecture Series
- Governance
- News
- Staff
- Schools and Departments
- Current Students
- Undergraduate Courses
- Postgraduate Courses
- International Students
- Research and Innovation
- Employability and Careers
- Outreach and Public Engagement
- Science Week
- Transition Year Programmes
News 2023
Teagasc/UCC International Agriculture Student Development Programme
Teagasc and UCC have come together to provide a new support programme for students from a number of agriculture focussed universities and institutes in developing countries.
This is new initiative is co-ordinated through the “Teagasc UCC International Agriculture Student Development Programme” and supports the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (in particular SDG 13 – Climate Action).
The new programme will provide direct education, mentoring and support for an initial tranche of three Walsh Scholar PhD students from East Africa who will be registered with UCC, and will be co-supervised by Teagasc staff in Moorepark.
The students will work on Climate Smart Dairy Production with the initial work areas clustered around improved dairy breeding, forage production, forage conservation, and farm system optimisation.
Each of the study areas are integrated into larger institutional support and development projects in Kenya, Eritrea and Tanzania supported by Irish Aid and the EU DeSIRA funding.
The new initiative will provide co-ordinated support from Ireland to colleagues in similar institutes in developing countries as they strive to develop an optimal climate smart food production system suited to their own country.
It will also provide a new knowledge exchange network between Ireland and the three countries that will extend beyond the life of the projects and support provided under this programme.
Teagasc and UCC staff recently met two of the students participating in the programme at Teagasc Moorepark.