Education
Second Year of Generation Glas Launches
Last week, BiOrbic, Ireland’s national bioeconomy research centre, and Foróige proudly launched the second year of their flagship youth sustainability ambassador programme, Generation Glas, with 25 teenagers taking part for 2024-5. Richard Bruton TD, Fine Gael spokesperson for the Environment, Climate and Communications, officially launched the programme on Wednesday 7th August. The event took place…
Read MoreBiOrbic ‘Slow Fashion’ Exhibition at UCD
The second edition of BiOrbic’s ‘Green is the New Black‘ slow fashion course culminated in a slow fashion exhibition at UCD last week. Run by BiOrbic researchers, the course is aimed at undergraduate students and focuses on the impacts of fast fashion, how we can transition to a sustainable model and most importantly, how students…
Read MoreBiOrbic at UCD Festival 2023
BiOrbic had a blast at the UCD Festival earlier this month. This annual free festival showcases the best of UCD and UCD-based research centres through performances, talks, hands-on science, interactive exhibits and more. At BiOrbic, our researchers got involved to teach the public a little more about the bioeconomy and sustainable daily choices. Those who…
Read MoreBiOrbic’s Sustainability Cafes
BiOrbic has developed a new ‘sustainability cafe’ that can be taken into primary schools to inspire young children with ideas for how they can be sustainable. The cafe has five stations: Each station takes about 10 minutes to run the activity with 6 students. After each 10 minutes, the students rotate to the next station,…
Read MoreMuckross Park College Visits BiOrbic
On Tuesday over 170 female students visited BiOrbic to learn more about the bioeconomy. Spending the entire morning at UCD, 50 5th years and 120 second years were able to take a tour of the university, visit some of the BiOrbic labs and took part in a bioeconomy workshop. First the bioeconomy was introduced to…
Read MoreBiOrbic awarded SFI Discover Programme funding for “Generation Glas”
BiOrbic are delighted to have been awarded funding through the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme 2023. The SFI Discover Programme aims to empower diversity inclusion in STEM through public engagement projects across Ireland. The awardees of the funding are to use the funding to build connections with less-represented voices, or with those who would not…
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