Research & Innovation

Research and Innovation are central to the vision for TU Dublin as a technological university. As the world faces significant challenges relating to, amongst others, climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, political instability, public health, our university is focussing on, as outlined in our Strategic Intent 2030, the “creation of new knowledge and the development of timely & practical solutions that address the SDGs.”

Our collective commitment to working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals is consistent with our longstanding culture of focussing research and innovation activity on delivery of positive impact in our society. Solutions to the SDGs require concerted efforts across society, with universities playing a key role in providing open and creative environments in which new ideas can be explored and tested.

The TU Dublin community has the energy and drive to play our part. Whilst we will actively support research and innovation activity from across the broad spectrum of disciplines pursued across all five TU Dublin faculties, we identify in this strategy a set of five research priorities, aligned to selected SDGs, where we believe that coalescing our efforts in a transdisciplinary manner will focus and amplify the excellence and impact of our work.