UCD community engagement during COVID-19
2020/21 Events
- UCD community engagement during COVID-19
- Hope Fest 2020
- Volunteering in the New Academic Year
- Get Ready for a Lifetime of Volunteering
- CELT Community of Practice Meeting
- Dublin Simon Community Voucher Appeal
- Green Gown Awards
- CELT Network Symposium
- UCD Community Sing-Song
- UCD Volunteer Engagers Coffee Morning
- Introduction to Mindfulness for Women
- 'Volunteer Engagers' Coffee Morning
UCD community engagement during COVID-19
Nationwide, there has been an outpouring of community engagement during the COVID-19 situation. It is heartening to see so many people volunteer in a safe way, adhering to Government and HSE guidelines, to help family, friends, neighbours and their communities.
Please see below for some articles of the amazing work being done by members of the UCD community! (Articles posted at https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/)
- 22% of parents avoided accessing healthcare for their children over COVID-19 concerns, national survey finds
- Ireland must prepare for “inevitable” COVID-19 resurgence, Oireachtas committee hears 1
- UCD-led projects aimed at 'reopening Ireland' receive SFI COVID-19 funding
- UCD expert calls for COVID-19 safety incentives for businesses to help better protect workers
- COVID-19: UCD leads on Irish clinical trials testing if blood thinners can help patients avoid ICU
- CeADAR makes AI projects available for free to support COVID-19 R&D activities
- Five UCD-led research projects awarded COVID-19 Rapid Response Funding
- COVID-19 school closures risk worsening existing educational inequalities
- Airflow video shows how easily coronavirus can be spread by coughing
- HSE doubles COVID-19 testing capacity through UCD NVRL to 10,000 following GMI agreement
- (opens in a new window)Irish universities help fight the pandemic
- UCD Institute of Food and Health launch National COVID-19 Food Study
- HSE doubles COVID-19 testing capacity through UCD NVRL to 10,000 following GMI agreement
- UCD Centre for Emergency Medical Science fills in PPE knowledge gap
- UCD volunteers use 3D printing to produce PPE for front-line COVID-19 medical staff
- (opens in a new window)UCD healthcare students set up a volunteer service to deliver medicines to vulnerable people who are self-isolating
- Colin Keogh, UCD engineer, leads Irish efforts in global race to build ventilators
- UCD professor leads Irish clinical trials as part of global effort against the virus
- (opens in a new window)First call centre outside HSE set up at UCD to provide coronavirus support