Dr JB McCarthy, Vice Dean Internationalisation & External Engagement at Cork University Business School, represented University College Cork at a recent meeting of faculties of economics and social sciences from across the UNIC alliance of universities, 4-6 June 2025.

University College Cork's student representatives for UNIC in the academic year 2025/26 are Margarita Linetska and Sadhbh Tierney.

Dr Birce Demiryontar, Project Coordinator of UNIC, and Scientific Coordinator of Migration Research Center at Koç University Istanbul, visited University College Cork on a staff exchange visit, 9-11 June 2025. 

The University of Oulu is offering open online courses for the academic year 2025/26. 

The University of Lodz is offering open online courses for the academic year 2025/26. 

Dr Breffní Lennon, Research Fellow at the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and School of Engineering and Architecture, is a winner of the UNIC Best Paper Award for his paper on sustainability and citizen energy communities, co-written with Dr Niall Dunphy, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Architecture/ERI.

Prof. Owen McIntyre is co-awardee of the UNIC Best CityLab Award for the sustainability law CityLab initiative entitled ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’, hosted at University College Cork in June 2024. The win is shared with the co-organisers of the initiative, Dr Alberto Quintavalla and Renée Knoop of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Alex Sheehan, former UNIC student rep at University College Cork (UCC) and graduate of UCC's School of Law, is National Winner for Ireland of the European Charlemagne Youth Prize (ECYP) 2025. 

A Master’s programme created via the University of Post-Industrial Cities in Transition (UNIC) alliance and jointly delivered by eight universities, including University College Cork (UCC) was recently announced as the ‘Best Master’s Programme – Science, Technology and Built Environment’ at the Education Awards 2025.