Sustainability - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Centre for Academic Practice awarded National SATLE Impact Award

The award recognises the Centre for Academic Practice’s initiative, ‘Embedding Education for Sustainable Development across the Disciplines at Trinity", which supports the integration of sustainability into teaching, learning and curriculum design across the University.

1 Apr 2026

Awards and Funding|Sustainability

Trinity team's new chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data centre communications

Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centres behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient.

31 Mar 2026

Innovation|Research|Science|Sustainability

Why rural Ireland holds the key to transport decarbonisation

Recent research conducted through a collaboration between the Schools of Physics and Engineering, and published in the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, explores decarbonisation of transport, and the particular challenges that exist in Ireland due to our population density and geography.

31 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Health and Sport Week keynote: Dr May van Schalkwyk addresses industry harm

Dr May van Schalkwyk, public health doctor and researcher gave the Health and Sports Week keynote address in Trinity Long Room Hub this week to a full house with attendees from the civil service, health services, non-governmental organisations and activists from a wide range of sectors.

26 Mar 2026

Business|Health|Society|Sustainability

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths"

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

26 Mar 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Sustainability Leadership Awards 2026

Provost Linda Doyle and Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action Jane Stout kicked off the awards held in Portal on Monday 9th March as part of Trinity's 24th annual Green Week. The awards are in their fourth year running, an initiative conceived and led by Sustainability Manager Jane Hackett.

11 Mar 2026

Sustainability

Green Week 2026: Trinity gathers to celebrate leadership in sustainability

This will be Trinity’s 24th Green Week, a time when our community gathers to put a spotlight on sustainability through talks, events and workshops. There are over 20 events to choose from, including the inaugural Sustainability Leadership Awards as the unofficial kick-off on Monday 9 March.

5 Mar 2026

Community|Sustainability

Trinity team delivers new universal design guidelines for long-term residential care settings

Researchers from Trinity recently launched new universal design guidelines to enhance quality of life, sustainability, and resilience in long-term residential care settings for older people in Ireland.

3 Mar 2026

Community|Environment|Health|Research|Sustainability

Endangered marine life is being caught in fishing nets, but it doesn’t need to be

Dr Nicholas Payne from Trinity's School of Natural Sciences co-authored this piece for The Conversation, following a new four-year study from Ireland’s national Marine Institute which highlights the particular problem tangle nets are causing in Ireland.

19 Feb 2026

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Trinity College Dublin to become vape-free campus

Trinity will become a tobacco and e-cigarettes free campus from 18th March 2026 onwards.

18 Feb 2026

Community|Environment|Society|Sustainability