Sustainability Action Lab
Sustainability Action Lab supports TU Dublin academics, students and partners from all sectors of society to collaborate on United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aligned themes and challenges.
It involves academics and students engaging partners from civil society (charities, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises), industry, or government in co-learning activities in the real-world. Through Sustainability Action Lab, students, academics and Collaboration Partners can work together on knowledge exchange and co-creation and engage in critical thinking.
Each collaboration is designed to benefit all who take part. The collaboration partner becomes part of a co-learning process that examines an aspect of sustainability that is important to them; students enhance their learning through collaboration, developing and applying their specialist subject skills, and knowledge of sustainability, while receiving course credits for their work; and TU Dublin Academics create an environment for transformative learning for their students.
The aim of Sustainability Action Lab is to help develop the key competencies needed across society to successfully navigate the transition to becoming a more sustainable society, economy and environment.

Register for the 2025/2026 programme
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 submissions is 12:00 noon, Monday 16 June, 2025. For more information, read this Sustainability Action Lab Guidance Document.

SLWC+ pilot
14 Students Learning with Communities + (SLWC+) pilot collaborations took place during the 2024/2025 academic year. Read more about the pilot programme here

TU Dublin’s Impact Stories
These stories showcase how students, staff, & societal partners are working together to build a more sustainable, inclusive future - highlighting not just the breath of activity taking place across Faculties, Schools and programmes, but the meaningful difference made when we do it together