Register for the Sustainability Action Lab 2025/2026 programme

EOIs still being accepted for the 2025/2026 academic year

Submissions for a Semester 1 collaborations can be made up to 12:00 noon, Thursday 11 September, 2025 and will be supported where feasible. EOI submissions for Semester 2 collaborations will remain open until Thursday 11 December, 2025. For more information, read this Sustainability Action Lab Guidance Document.

TU Dublin staff can submit their Expressions of Interest (EOI) to take part in Sustainability Action Lab for the 2025/2026 academic year. The deadline for first call submissions is 12:00 noon, Monday 16 June, 2025.

Note that EOI submissions for a Semester 1 collaboration can be made up to 12:00 noon, Thursday 11 September, 2025 and will be supported where feasible. EOI submissions for Semester 2 collaborations will remain open until Thursday 11 December, 2025. For more information, read this Sustainability Action Lab Guidance Document.

Please complete this EOI form

Contact

For additional information contact Helena Fitzgerald, Head of Societal Engagement on email at Helena.Fitzgerald@tudublin.ie

Key dates

• EOI launches on 12 May 2025
• Online Information and Q&A session on Thursday 05 June, from 12.00-12.45, join here
• EOI closes Monday 16 June 2025 at 12:00 noon
• Successful applicants notified on 18 June 2025
• Meet successful applicants on 19 June 2025, from 12:00-12:45pm

Principles for Sustainability Action Lab collaborations 

The following principles guide Sustainability Action Lab collaborations: 

• Sustainability Action Lab collaborations are based on partnership. 
• Collaborations are designed to be reciprocal – to be equally beneficial to all involved. 
• The focus of the collaboration is identified through a process of co-creation to enable rich interaction and to create a high-quality co-learning experience for all participants.  
• The prior learning and expertise of participants is respected throughout. 
• Collaborations have a clear sustainability focus and promote the possibility of positive societal change towards achieving the SDGs. 
• Activity is designed to be completed within the allocated time. 
• Collaboration outputs are shared with the Collaboration Partner through an exchange that allows students to reflect on the collaboration activity and to share their reflections with the Collaboration Partner. 
• Collaborations have clear personal and academic learning outcomes for students as part of programmes.  
• Collaboration activity requires students to reflect regularly and critically on their learning experiences: to allow students to make sense of their experiences and to learn about themselves as learners; to ensure students link their real-world learning to their classroom knowledge; and to ensure that students reflect on, question, and challenge, the causes and effects of societal challenges.   
• Collaborations are evaluated by all partners – students, TU Dublin academics, and Collaboration Partners - so that TU Dublin’s co-learning programme continues to develop to meet the changing needs of participants and of society.