TU Dublin students scoop eight awards at the Smarter Travel Student Awards 2025

Published: 25 Apr, 2025

Once again, TU Dublin students have dominated the finalist boards at the Smarter Travel Awards 2025 scooping eight awards including three first place winning projects. The event took place on Thursday, 24 April 2025, at an event at the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin 7.

The Smarter Travel Awards saw over 260 finalists out of hundreds of participants from partners on the Smarter Travel programme. Seventy-seven projects were presented that encourage, support and enable sustainable and active travel on the commute to campus and beyond.

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Under the Engineering & Innovation category, School of Media, Blanchardstown campus, Creative Digital Media student Lincoln Ero, claimed the Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship award with their winning project ‘ScootWorkz’.

Under the Social Marketing category, second year Advertising and Marketing Communications students based at the Tallaght campus in the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Orla Byrne, Jasmin Luca, Denize Kalnina, Weronika Kuczyńska, and Lucia McGinley, claimed the Marketing & Communications award with their winning project ‘Walk, Bike, Share – Show the planet that you care!’

Under the Social Marketing category, postgraduate Sustainability Leadership students based at Aungier Street from the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Davi Costa , Heidi Kelly-Hogan, Katerina Kopecna claimed the Advocacy and Programmes  award with their winning project ‘Sustainable Travel Ambassador Programme’

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Under the Engineering & Innovation category, fourth year Advertising and Marketing Communications students based at the Tallaght campus in the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Kelly Laird, Caoimhe Milton, Adam Axmed, Exose Bakutu, Joanna Nkansah Otis, claimed second place in the Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship award with their project ‘Re-turn on leap’

Under the Social Marketing category, postgraduate Digital & Content Marketing student Blessing Dosunmu based at Aungier Street from the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, claimed second place in the Marketing & Communications award with their project ‘Bingo Eco – Battle of the Campuses'

Under the Social Marketing category, Postgraduate Digital and Content Marketing student based at Aungier Street from the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Ellen Gribbon claimed Second place in the Advocacy and Programmes award with their project ‘Roll-On Roll-Off’.

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Under the Engineering & Innovation category, School of Media, Blanchardstown campus, Creative Digital Media student Emma O’Connor, claimed third place in the Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship award with their project ‘Active More Often’.

Under the Social Marketing category, Postgraduate Digital and Content Marketing student based at Aungier Street from the School of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Joy Mukoya, claimed third place in the Advocacy and Programmes award with their project ‘The Greenwheel Lock’.

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Lecturer recognition awards were given to Hilda Burton, Niamh O’Hora and Roisin Vize, and thirty-three TU Dublin students were also finalists in four sub-categories.

 

 

Project Title	Name of Student(s)	Category	Sub-category
Campus Carpool	Sam Murphy	Engineering & Innovation	Digital and Concept Design
ShareFare Carpooling App	Magdalena Ohl	Engineering & Innovation	Digital and Concept Design
	Rachel Long
	Cara O’Riordan
	Amy Carr
Active More Often	Emma O’Connor	Engineering & Innovation	Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Leap Rewards	Darja Gubenko	Engineering & Innovation	Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Re-turn on leap	Adam Axmed	Engineering & Innovation	Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
	Exose Bakutu
	Caoimhe Milton
	Kelly Laird
	Joanna Nkansah
	Otis Kwadwo
ScootWorkz     (1st place winner)	Lincoln Ero	Engineering & Innovation	Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Bingo Eco – Battle of the Campuses	Blessing Dosunmu	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
Walk, Bike, Share – Show the planet that you care! (1st place winner)	Orla Byrne	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
	Jasmin Luca
	Denize Kalnina
	Weronika Kuczyńska
	Lucia McGinley
Leap Into Rewards	Sam Chapple	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
Loyalty Student Leap	Thai Lai	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
Making the Bus More Accessible to All: Confidence to Travel	Aoife Gallen	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
	Colin Marsh
	David Ward
	Kimolo Ndee
	Patricia Dias
The Green Kingdom Quest	Yu Ya Ko	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
The More the Merrier	Amit Kumar Tiwari	Social Marketing	Marketing & Communications
SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL AMBASSADOR PROGRAMME  (1st place winner)	Davi Costa	Social Marketing	Programmes & Advocacy
	Heidi Kelly-Hogan
	Katerina Kopecna
Roll On	Ellen Gribben	Social Marketing	Programmes & Advocacy
Step Up Challenge	Victoria Afariogun	Social Marketing	Programmes & Advocacy
	Tiegan Creighton
	Aleksandra Mysak
	Claudia Dica
	Sophie Rennix
The Green Faculty Initiative	Jade Kelly	Social Marketing	Programmes & Advocacy
	Cathy Mc Hugh
	John Corrigan
The Greenwheel Lock- A bicycle locking system	Joy Mukoya	Social Marketing	Programmes & Advocacy

TU Dublin is a Campus Partner with Transport for Ireland’s Smarter Travel for Campuses programme. TU Dublin works with Transport for Ireland to implement voluntary travel plans to promote and encourage students and staff to travel to campus sustainably and actively.