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UCD Hosts First C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Summer School 15Sep
UCD Hosts First C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Summer School

UCD recently hosted the first C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Summer School (1-5 September 2025), bringing together DCs, supervisors, partners and external experts for a week of training, collaboration, engaging talks and interactive workshops. The programme focused on Leadership & Innovation and Scientific Writing.

Study visits to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Liberties Community Project offered insights into how Dublin’s local authorities and communities are tackling sustainability and climate neutrality. Doctoral candidates also presented their research and received feedback from supervisors and external expert Prof. John Sweeney (ICARUS).

A big thank you to all speakers, partners, and participants and to our hosts at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) and the UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab for making the week a success!

Lecture: Practical strategies for self-management and boosting performance 26Aug
Lecture: Practical strategies for self-management and boosting performance

Speaker: Christoph Glaser
Date: Tuesday, 2 September, 10:00- 10:45am (followed by 15min Q&A and refreshments)
Location: MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland), Newman House, 85 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
Audience: Open to all academics, researchers, and professional staff

This guest lecture is organised as part of the C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network (funded by the EU MSCA Horizon Europe + UKRI), and supported by the UCD Earth Institute RC-EDI Committee.

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Buildings with trees and planting 22Oct
Webinar: Gender & Equality in Climate and Urban Research. Monday 4 November 2024, 1.00 -2.30pm CET

As part of the C-NEWTRAL network training, online modules will be delivered on aspects specifically targeting DCs climate-neutral research. The first of of these sessions ‘Gender & Equality in Climate and Urban Research’ has been opened to all early career researchers as part of UCD Earth Institute research culture and EDI events programme for 2024-2025.

Programme:

Dr. Paula Russell: Gender and urban planning

The lecture will discuss gender inclusivity in planning and will look at the manner in which a more gender focused emphasis in policy and practice can contribute to more sustainable and liveable cities.

Professor Sirkku Juhola: Connecting climate change and gender

This talk will address the main ways in which climate change connects to gender issues, by focusing on the impact, sources of emissions as well as the governance and science of climate change.

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Photo of C-NEWTRAL Supervisors' Kick Off meeting 11Apr
C-NEWTRAL Supervisors' Kick-off Meeting, 4-5th April 2024

UCD hosted a two-day (hybrid) Supervisors’ kick-off meeting, which brought together the C-NEWTRAL Host Institutions (UCD, UNIBO, UdG, UHEI, UH, QUB), Associated Partners (who will host and train the doctoral candidates) and External Advisory Board members. The College Principal (UCD College of Engineering and Architecture) Professor Aoife Ahern welcomed the project/network, which was followed by a presentation from the EU Project Officer’. Discussions for proceeding with the project activities for the next months were undertaken.

The kick-off was launched on day one with an event 'Research Culture across Europe' (organised in collaboration with the UCD Earth Institute Research Culture & EDI committee and C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network) with interesting discussions and insights from speakers Dr Lucia Alexandra Popartan (University of Girona) and Professor Jacopo Gaspari, (University of Bologna). The kick-off was a great start for the C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network!


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C-NEWTRAL Applicants Webinar Flyer 09Jan
C-NEWTRAL Applicants' Webinars. The information session will be held twice - depending on your time zone, please register for your preferred date:

- Monday 15th January 2024, 10.00-11.00 CET
Registration link: https://bit.ly/41dEI6a

- Monday 29th January 2024, 17.00-18.00 CET
Registration link: https://bit.ly/3S60dmq

The webinar is aimed at those who have not yet been previously awarded a PhD & interested in applying for C-NEWTRAL PhD vacancies (which are now open until 5.00 pm CET, 1st March 2024)

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Next Build Conference 2024 Flyer 01Dec
NEXT BUILT 24 International Conference - call for abstracts now open!

The 2nd edition of the International Conference on Challenges for the NEXT generation BUILT Environment (NEXT BUILT 24), will take place May 9-10, 2024 in Bologna (IT). The aim is to stimulate a reflection on the next generation built environment within a context of resource scarcity or heavily influenced by climate change impacts, assuming a strong forward-looking approach.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 15.
All accepted papers will be published in a NEXTBUILT 2024 special issue of IOP Publishing Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.

Visit the website for more information: https://next-built.org/nextbuilt-2024/
C-NEWTRAL vacancies open 06Nov
12 PhD posts for highly achieving candidates are available in C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network.

C-NEWTRAL is funded by the prestigious Horizon Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) aiming to advance integrated planning of climate-neutral cities, addressing multiple dimensions of #urbannature #urbanmobility #builtform #energy and #circularity, through citizen engagement and city governance decision-making support.
Application deadline is 1st of March 2024.