Convene is an ambitious five-year collaborative project funded by the Irish Government’s Human Capital Initiative under Pillar III - Innovation and Agility. Through Convene, dedicated teams at Technological University Dublin and University College Dublin are exploring new ways that academia and enterprise can work more closely together to meet priority and emerging skills needs.

We are working to address both culture change and system change within Irish higher education to increase our agility and make it easier for enterprise to engage with us.

As a collaboration between Ireland’s two largest universities, there is tremendous potential for impact. Our partnership demonstrates the synergies between a research-intensive university and a Technological University within a regional innovation ecosystem, a dynamic that relevant to Cork, Limerick and Galway in Ireland as well as other areas in the EU and across the world.

We share our learnings in a commitment to improving higher education for all.