2023 Winners

Please see below the winners and finalists from the 2023 Education Awards.

The winners were announced on Thursday, April 27th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, Dublin.

Best Education Outreach Award

WINNER:

Explorers Healthy Ocean Project & Ocean Champions Award - Camden Education Trust

FINALISTS:

  • ‘A Day in Life of a Scientist’ Campaign - SSPC
  • Current Chemistry Investigators - Trinity College Dublin and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo
  • Cyberwise - University College Dublin
  • Debunking the Myths - The Science Behind Our Sexual Health - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • Explorers Healthy Ocean Project & Ocean Champions Award - Camden Education Trust
  • Farmer Time - Airfield Estate
  • Junior Cycle Workshop Programme - TU Dublin
  • Parenting 365 - ELI @ NCI
  • Professor Fluffy Programme - University College Cork
  • Towards Greener Fragrances - Queen`s University Belfast

Best Community Academic Collaboration

WINNER:

The Open Door -MTU, Cork ETB, IASIO & Cork Prison (IPS)

FINALISTS:

  • Ashfield College & Shamrock Rovers
  • Setanta College x GPA
  • Smart Money Habits - LIA AND RPI
  • South East Technological University, Amanda Coogan and Dublin Theatre of the Deaf
  • The Open Door -MTU, Cork ETB, IASIO & Cork Prison (IPS)
  • Unhappy Endings? - Mary Immaculate College
  • University of Limerick City Centre Campus Mural

Best Industry/Business -Academic Collaboration

WINNER:

NCAD - Department of Nursing ATU Donegal, HSE and Axia Digital (Ireland)

FINALISTS:

  • Advanced Certificate/Special Purpose Award in Phlebotomy - TUG, MRHP & MRHT
  • Certificate in the Fundamentals of Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse - Dundalk institute of Technology
  • Current Chemistry Investigators - Trinity College Dublin and the Atlantic Technological University Sligo
  • Drogheda Institute and Amazon Web Services Data Centre Technician Programme
  • MACSI – University of Limerick
  • NCAD - Department of Nursing ATU Donegal, HSE and Axia Digital (Ireland)
  • P-TECH - National College of Ireland
  • Student Inc.- MTU, UL, UCC, ATU, TUS & MIC

Excellence in Sustainability

WINNER:

University College Cork

FINALISTS:

  • RCSI
  • University College Cork

Excellence in Diversity, Inclusivity, Equality

WINNER:

Leading Equality Diversity & Inclusion in the HE Sector and Beyond- SETU

FINALISTS:

  • Blossom4life
  • Brigit`s Basket - NCI
  • Dublin Business School
  • Leading Equality Diversity & Inclusion in the HE Sector and Beyond- SETU

Excellence in Education by a Professional Body

WINNER:

LIA

FINALISTS:

  • Law Society of Ireland Diploma Centre
  • LIA
  • PAT Business School & ACCA

International Engagement Award

WINNER:

Young Future Leader Programme - NCI

FINALISTS:

  • Setanta College
  • Young Future Leader Programme - NCI

Best Masters Programme

WINNER:

M.Sc. in Translational Oncology - Trinity College Dublin

FINALISTS:

  • DBS MSc Digital Marketing
  • DBS MSc Supply Chain Management
  • LL.M. in International Law - Faculty of Law, Griffith College Dublin
  • M.Sc. in Translational Oncology - Trinity College Dublin
  • MA Art and Environment - TU Dublin
  • MSc AgriFood Sustainability & Technology - University of Galway
  • MSc in Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development - Cork University Business School, University College Cork

Best Internship Programme Award

WINNER:

Graduate Leadership Programme- Ulster University

FINALISTS:

  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Graduate Leadership Programme- Ulster University

Best Graduate Training Programme

WINNER:

BMS

FINALISTS:

  • AbbVie`s Operations Development Program
  • BMS
  • Grant Thornton Ireland
  • Pfizer GBS Dublin

Best Research Project

WINNER:

The Student Psychological Intervention Trial (SPIT) - Atlantic Technological University, Donegal Campus

FINALISTS:

  • GetReskilled
  • Irish Travellers` Access to Justice - ECHS, University of Limerick
  • SAMI Lab - National College of Ireland
  • The Student Psychological Intervention Trial (SPIT) - Atlantic Technological University, Donegal Campus

Best Use of Educational Technology/ICT Initiative of the Year

WINNER:

University of Limerick

FINALISTS:

  • City Colleges
  • College of Management and IT
  • PAT Business School
  • University of Limerick

Student Engagement & Communications Award

WINNER:

University of Limerick

FINALISTS:

  • Griffith Halls of Residence
  • Insurance Institute of Ireland
  • Transitions at MTU
  • UCC Skills Centre
  • University College Cork
  • University of Limerick

Overall Excellence Award

Winner::

University of Limerick

Best Online Learning Experience Award

WINNER:

Munster Technological University (MTU)

FINALISTS:

  • College of Management and IT
  • Diploma in Legal Studies and Practice - Griffith College
  • Higher Diploma in Computer Science - SETU
  • Law Society of Ireland Diploma Centre
  • Leadership for Inclusion in the Early Years (LINC) Programme
  • LIA
  • MSc in Management of Operations - DCU
  • Munster Technological University (MTU)
  • Online Teacher Summer Course Programme - Flúirse
  • The Blended Undergraduate Law Programme at Griffith College

Career Impact Strategy Award

WINNER:

The SURE Network

FINALISTS:

  • DBS Graduate Work Readiness Programme
  • Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Degree Programme - Munster Technological University
  • Setanta College
  • The SURE Network

Best Student Campus Award

WINNER:

University of Limerick

FINALISTS:

  • University College Cork
  • University of Limerick

Best Student Experience Award

WINNER:

Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Griffith College

FINALISTS:

  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Griffith College
  • Dublin Business School
  • LIA
  • MA Drama and Theatre Studies - University of Galway
  • Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science
  • The id Project - University College Cork

Best Library Team

WINNER:

Dublin Business School

FINALISTS:

  • Dublin Business School
  • Hibernia College
  • Law Society of Ireland Library

Best Marketing / Communications Team

WINNER:

University of Limerick

FINALISTS:

  • MCR Team - Southern Regional College
  • Trinity College Dublin Communications Team
  • University College Cork
  • University of Limerick

Best International Collaboration Project

WINNER:

Dundalk Institute of Technology and Heilbronn University Graduate School

FINALISTS:

  • Dundalk Institute of Technology and Heilbronn University Graduate School
  • ED-HOC INTERNATIONAL
  • EDGE - MTU
  • Flúirse Career College & Ansam Training
  • SPuMoNI - National College of Ireland

Best Collaboration Project

WINNER:

Global Summit comes to University College Cork

FINALISTS:

  • CPD Programme Development & Delivery - TU Dublin and Janssen Sciences Irleland
  • DkIT Level 9 Certificate in Perinatal Mental Health
  • Future Cast
  • Global Summit comes to University College Cork
  • Griffith College Faculty of Law and the Irish Institute of Legal Executives
  • POWER AGEING - Dublin City University Anti-Bullying Centre
  • Tonight with Gerry Kelly - Havelock Street Productions and Belfast Metropolitan College

Best Erasmus Programme

WINNER:

FINALISTS:

  • Ballyfermot College of Further Education
  • O Fiaich Institue
  • School of Medicine, University of Galway
  • The Well Project - Southern Regional College
  • University of Limerick

Best Further Education Provider

WINNER:

Drogheda Institute of Further Education

FINALISTS:

  • Cavan Institute
  • College of Management and IT
  • Drogheda Institute of Further Education
  • Law Society of Ireland Diploma Centre
  • LIA
  • O Fiaich Institue
  • Pitman Training
  • Progressive College
  • RCSI

Best Language School

WINNER:

Coláiste na hÉireann/ Gaelchultúr

FINALISTS:

  • Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre
  • Centre of English Studies (CES)
  • City Language School
  • Coláiste na hÉireann/ Gaelchultúr
  • Irish College of English