Enterprise Academy Fellows Spring 2024
Enterprise Academy Fellowships
Incubating Solutions for Business Needs
The Enterprise Academy Fellowship programme supports staff wishing to co-create skills and innovation solutions with enterprise, which are aligned to TU Dublin’s strategic goals. Staff in academic faculties, professional services, research or innovation centres are eligible to apply. To date, the Enterprise Academy has awarded 16 Fellowships across a variety of projects and sectors.
Funded by the Human Capital Initiative, Enterprise Fellows are seconded from their regular role on a full-time basis for one semester.
The Fellowship programme is a unique and exciting opportunity for staff across TU Dublin's academic faculties, professional services, research or innovation centres. Enterprise Academy Fellowships provide time out to pause intense schedules, explore, experiment, and deliver skills and innovation solutions for enterprise.
About the Fellowship Programme
The Enterprise Academy Fellowship programme is a unique and exciting opportunity for staff at TU Dublin. Seconded from their regular roles, Fellows are given the time, space, and resources to work on a wide range of projects aligned with TU Dublin’s strategic plan, and building on existing strengths across the university to support the Enterprise Academy’s mission to transform university-enterprise engagement for the benefit of Irish society and the economy.
The Enterprise Academy Fellowship provides time out to pause intense schedules, explore, experiment and deliver skills and innovation solutions for enterprise. Fellows will be immersed in a ‘velcro’ ecosystem where staff and students from enterprise, academia, professional services, innovation, research and our international partners come together for the common purpose of innovation, talent and skills development.
View our presentation from the Fellowships Information Session 30th September 2024
Fellows will be based in their host organisation and in the Enterprise Academy, an “internal incubator” for TU Dublin, which will help staff translate between enterprise needs and academic solutions, align projects to the university strategic plan, navigate our complex systems, integrate our collective expertise and co-create solutions around priority enterprise needs.
Leveraging the best practice of prior fellowship colleagues, Fellows are supported throughout the innovation lifecycle to deliver skills and innovation solutions for enterprise. Mainstreaming and delivery remains the responsibility of the home Faculty, School or Unit and all projects need the firm commitment of the relevant line manager from the outset.
The Enterprise Academy offers:
- Full semester secondments with backfill to the home School/unit (to a maximum value of €25,000)
- Ground-breaking educational models for Accredited Talent Development
- Tools and techniques for effective discovery
- Coaching through the full innovation lifecycle, from ideation to mainstreaming
- Curation of high-quality online content to support skills solutions
- Assistance with securing funding (Springboard, Innovation Vouchers, and other funding applications)
- Navigation of internal and collaborative quality assurance processes
- Cultivation of enterprise ecosystems including Enterprise Faculty in priority sectors
- Communities of practice around common challenges, joining the dots across our education, research and innovation strengths
- Professional development plans including coaching and training as entrepreneurial educators
- National/international market development and sector-facing intelligence
- Championing business process transformation within TU Dublin for university-enterprise engagement.
We are not currently accepting applications.
