The Technological University Dublin's Enterprise Academy’s Collaborative Talent Development Community of Practice (CoP) is aimed at bringing academic and professional services staff, business leaders and policy-makers together to improve how universities and enterprise work together.
The central aim of our community of practice is to amplify the Enterprise Voice at TU Dublin through genuine member-led engagement. Our community offers a unique space for both faculty and enterprise representatives to jointly enhance university-enterprise engagement by sharing successful practices, emphasizing crucial University-Enterprise engagement drivers, and addressing specific challenges.
A community of practice is not merely a community of interest … members of a community of practice are practitioners. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems — in short, a shared practice. This takes time and sustained interaction.
- Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder (2002)
Our monthly events consists of faculty and professional services staff and industry partners who collaboratively curate each session's theme, content and learning outcomes, providing practitioners with a platform to share and exhibit their findings. During these sessions Community of Practice participants will gain:
- updated perspectives on critical and emerging skills
- insights into how to build relationship and networks between academia and enterprise
- university-enterprise engagement strategies for successful collaboration in developing future talent.
