Supporting UCD's Global Engagement Activities
In providing the guidance and support to University staff on the development and management of global partnerships, the UCD Global Partnerships Team is responsible for:
- Providing guidance to other teams looking to develop an academic partnership with another institution.
- Ensuring successful and effective management of high-level incoming delegations to UCD from our global partners and global public bodies and ensuring successful outbound missions for the UCD President and Vice-President for Global Engagement.
- Management of global partnership submissions to the college Global Engagement Group (UMT GEG) chaired by the Vice-President for Global Engagement.
- Management of the recording of all UCD’s Global Engagement initiatives via our online partnership database (Rowan).
- Maintaining a formal Register of Agreements for all global university partnerships.
- Supporting Global Engagement strategic projects related to objective 2 of the UCD Global Engagement Strategy
- Developing and championing policy frameworks in support of global relations, and collating and analysing information on the University’s international partnerships and its global reach.
- Coordinating visits to the University by a wide range of formal delegations, and making arrangements for high-level overseas missions by senior UCD staff.
Meet the Team
Eve Brosseau
Associate Director, Global Relations and Partnerships
Eve heads up the Global Relations and Partnerships team. She leads on the development and implementation of strategies and annual work plans, whilst managing multiple key projects and initiatives across the global relations, partnerships and networks portfolio.
Nationality
Canadian
Location
Dublin
Aidan Prinsloo
Global Relations & Partnerships Manager
Aidan leads the Global Partnerships team, which strategically manages UCD's portfolio of global partnerships and provides expertise to the UCD community on all aspects of partnership design, relationship management, and review. The team is also responsible for driving UCD's global relations agenda, managing inbound and outbound delegations, events, and partner communications.
Nationality
South African
Location
Dublin
Lilla Korbuly
Global Partnerships Officer
Lilla leads on the implementation of target-driven strategies to expand the scale of UCD’s global collaborations. She works closely with the Global Partnerships Team on providing information, guidance and support on global partnership development, approval, and monitoring.
Nationality
Hungarian
Location
Dublin
Michelle Power
Global Relations Officer
Michelle leads on the implementation of the global relations function within UCD Global, with a particular focus on global partnerships, events, incoming and outgoing delegations. She coordinates with the Partnerships team to foster relationships with strategically significant global partner institutions, organisations, individuals, and major national Government stakeholders.
Nationality
Irish
Location
Dublin
Jack Morris
Global Partnerships Officer
Jack leads on the implementation of target-driven strategies to expand the scale of UCD’s global collaborations. He works closely with the Global Partnerships Team on providing information, guidance and support on global partnership development, approval, and monitoring.
Nationality
Irish
Location
Dublin
Olga Kierans
Global Relations Coordinator
Olga supports the implementation of the global relations function within UCD Global and provides administrative support on events, incoming and outgoing delegations, and international partnership management.
Nationality
Russian
Location
Dublin
Mary O’Connor
Global Collaborations Officer
Mary works with academics, to support due diligence and approval procedures in the management of global university partnerships, ensuring strict adherence to UCD procedures. She also facilitates the negotiation and drafting of university agreements with external partners. She manages the University's global partnership portfolio, providing high-level service, effective communication, and efficient processing of partnership proposals.
Nationality
Irish
Location
Dublin
The Global Partnerships Team and UCD
The UCD Global Partnerships team works with the UCD Global Learning Abroad and UCD Global Centres to ensure partnerships align with regional and mobility strategies. The team also consult with a broad range of units within the University to ensure partnership proposals, reviews, and renewals align with the University's goals and adhere to our central standards for agreements.
Governance, Curriculum and Quality
The University Curriculum team ensure that the university systems are in place for the creation of a new collaborative programme. The University Secretariat manage the approvals process for collaborative programmes and the submission to UPB and UMT. UCD Quality office review partnerships periodically. The partnerships team collaborate with the University Curriculum team, University Secretariat and UCD Quality to ensure that partnerships and the agreements are formulated in accordance with the University standards. The Global Relations & Partnerships team seeks assurances that the proposal has the full support of the College governing boards and the university management.
UCD Legal
UCD Global Partnerships team work closely with UCD Legal to ensure that agreements meet UCD and Ireland's legal standards.
Office of the UCD President
UCD Global Partnerships team will ensure that agreements signed by the UCD President have gone through legal review, strategic review (University management - Global Engagement group) endorsement and approval in advance of submitting the agreement to the UCD president for signing.
UCD Research
UCD Global Partnerships team consult with UCD Research if any academic/ professional staff has queries on a partnership that involves research activities with a UCD partner university or if there is overlap with UCD Global Partnerships.
UCD Colleges
UCD Global Partnerships team will ensure that the Vice-Principal International for each college has oversight of global partnership proposals and activity. The Vice-Principal International will provide input to the approval of proposals by the College, including the associated business case when it is presented at the Global Engagement group.
UMT Global Engagement Group
The UCD Global partnerships team manage partnership proposals that are submitted to the University Management team Global Engagement group. The committee is chaired by the Vice-President for Global Engagement, Professor Dolores O'Riordan. This group provides high-level oversight and coordination of the University’s global engagement efforts, For more information, you can email global.partnerships@ucd.ie.
|
Role |
Responsibility |
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Proposer (School or College) |
Proposal initiation, day-to-day management of partnership/programme |
|
School or College committee (Governing Board) |
Oversight of programmes |
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Vice - Principal International |
Sponsors the partnership at all phases |
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UMT-GEG |
University-level oversight and endorsement partnerships/collaborations |
|
UMT, UPB |
Approvers |
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University Secretariat |
University-level committee management and oversight of approval process |
|
UCD Global |
Management of Rowan and processing of formal agreements |
|
UCD Legal |
Provision of advice/assistance with formal agreements |
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Curriculum Team, Administrative Services (UCD Registry) |
Collaborative programme implementation |
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UCD Quality Office |
Management of Periodic Quality Review and Annual Programme Reporting |