TU Dublin celebrates a successful Green Week 2025
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TU Dublin’s Green Week 2025 was a great success, concluding 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 Blanchardstown community to collaborate on environmental action, explore innovative ideas, and champion sustainability.
TU Dublin welcomed staff, students, neighbours and the wider community to get involved during Green Week, partnering with Microsoft and Trees on the Land to plant 1,800 native trees at TU Dublin, Blanchardstown. Students from the University’s 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 1,800 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 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, clothes swaps, and workshops on doughnut economics.
Speaking of the Green Week schedule of events, Vice President for Sustainability, Jennifer Boyer said:
Green Week brings together students, staff, the local community, policy makers, industry and NGOs with an aim to raise awareness and stimulate discussion on environmental action across a week of university-wide engagement. The initiative is a leading example of how a university community, embedded in and responsive to its region, can shape and drive local climate action with far-reaching impacts
Find out more about Green Week and TU Dublin’s commitment to sustainability