TU Dublin Plants 1,800 Native Trees to Mark Green Week 2025
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TU Dublin Green Week was launched on Friday 07 March with a landmark tree planting event at the University’s Blanchardstown campus, reinforcing TU Dublin’s commitment to sustainability and biodiversity. Running from Monday, 10 March to Friday 14 March 2025, Green Week is an annual celebration, bringing together students, staff, and the community to collaborate on environmental action, explore innovative ideas, and champion sustainability.
To launch Green Week, TU Dublin welcomed students, staff, neighbours and the wider community to get involved during Green Week, partnering with Microsoft and Trees on the Land to plant over 1,840 native trees at TU Dublin, Blanchardstown. Over 20 students and staff and 13 volunteers from Microsoft worked together on the planting activity. Coordinating the activity on the day was Culinary Arts and Food Technology lecturer in Horticulture, Rachel Freeman, and School of Informatics & Cybersecurity lecturer, Tom Nolan, with support from Societal Engagement (Sustainability and Partnerships) and Campus & Estates, as part of the Green Week programme of environmental action across TU Dublin.
Students from the University’s TU655 Network Technologies (Learn and Work) programme have been participating in work placement at Microsoft Datacentres in Dublin since 2021.
Speaking of the tree planting event and launch of Green Week, Helena Fitzgerald, TU Dublin’s Head of Societal Engagement said: Planting 1,840 native Irish trees on our campus is not just an environmental initiative; it’s a commitment to fostering a sustainable future. Planting trees shows our responsibility to protect the natural world, improve biodiversity, and create a greener, healthier space for future generations. By taking this step, we’re not only enhancing nature on campus but also cultivating connection between our students, community partners and the environment.
Across each of the five TU Dublin campus locations, students, staff, and the wider TU Dublin community had an opportunity to get involved in a range of solution-focused events throughout Green Week, including talks by renowned guest speakers on nature restoration and on the intersection between climate and architecture, campus and beach clean-ups, film screenings, clothes swaps, and workshops on doughnut economics.
Speaking of the Green Week schedule of events, TU Dublin's Vice President for Sustainability, Jennifer Boyer said: I extend my deepest gratitude to all of the people across the TU Dublin community for their contributions and commitment to protecting the environment as seen throughout this year's Green Week. TU Dublin's Green Week engaged more than 1620 people and 11 community and industry partners across the Dublin region as part of a dynamic series of sustainability and environmental action activities. All events were co-created by students, staff, the local community, industry partners and NGOs, in order to mobilise TU Dublin's practiced-based ecosystem to advocate, raise awareness and stimulate discussion on environmental action through a university-wide engagement campaign.