Play-with-AI to Create a Landscape Vision

Test the use of Artificial Intelligence tools as you generate a landscape vision of the future. UCD’s Landscape Architecture department invites you to visit us at the UCD Festival 2025, where you can design your ideal landscape. Be inspired by our students’ work, sketch your own ideas and watch as these ideas are transformed into… Continue reading Play-with-AI to Create a Landscape Vision

Intel Showcase

Located in the O’Brien Centre for Science, the Intel Showcase will feature interactive exhibits designed to inspire curiosity and spark imagination. Discover the incredible world of hands-on science and explore the endless possibilities of the world of science.

SMARTlab XR

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SMARTlab brings the Amazon rainforest, the bee motels of rural Europe, the lotic fauna of Kerry’s Iveragh river, and the world of the Irish boglands to life.  Come along and experience the shift in perspective by ‘being in’ nature through virtual reality and botanical olfactory scent.  The World Sensorium Conservancy, endorsed by UNESCO as a… Continue reading SMARTlab XR

Selfie with Pepper the Humanoid Robot

Come and meet Pepper, our friendly, humanoid robot. And don’t forget to take a selfie with UCD’s greatest tech star!

Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet

Meet the researchers behind the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems to explore the link between the food choices you make, your health and the health of our planet. With the Planetary Health Plate as our guide, our team will help you discover more about the importance of vegetables, fruits, legumes, and nuts, through creative tasks… Continue reading Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet

UCD Access & Lifelong Learning Craft Café

Join us one and all to imagine and Think Again about your UCD Future. Try out the craft café, a place to sit and chill and enjoy some light refreshments.

Fight Crime with the Amgen DNA Detectives!

Go undercover with the DNA Detectives to combat crime! Engage in the techniques used by forensic scientists to solve crimes and help uncover the mystery of stolen information from Amgen. Can you crack the case?

Master Micropipetting with Amgen

Let's Chat About the Science Behind Medicine

In association with colleagues in Systems Biology Ireland and UCD Conway Institute, join us to explore some key tools of the Biotechnology Lab and get the chance to try your hand at micropipetting. The skills that scientists need to use this tool are usually taught in the lab, but at the festival join UCD researchers… Continue reading Master Micropipetting with Amgen

Hands-On Chemistry

10/6/18 NO REPRO FEES - In excess of 15,000 people descended on the UCD campus, on Saturday, 9th June as temperatures soared for the third annual UCD Festival, fast becoming one of the country’s most popular fixtures on the summer family festival calendar. PICTURED IS Annabel Purdy from Delvin, County Westmeath experimenting with liquid Nitrogen.Festival goers were invited to open their minds and let loose their imaginations as they explored a taste of the innovation, creativity and research that takes place on UCD campus every day. Attendees were greeted with a jam-packed schedule of fun and interactive events, with six festival zones and over 100 free events to enjoy. The huge numbers on campus immersed themselves in a day of hands-on fun and discovery. Festival goers got to experience UCD’s Folklore Collection, jumped into the Family Fun zone, found out more about diverse views and life experiences with talks and debates and got a little closer to the latest advances in Science, Engineering, Innovation and Technology. This year's festival was kindly sponsored by Intel, Microsoft, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council and UCD Sport and Fitness. ENDS For further press information, please contact TRA Brands | The Reputations Agency Suzie O’DeaSuzie@thereputationsagency.ieM. 086 331 8800 Nicole FennerNicole@thereputationsagency.ieM. 086 8641544 Stephanie CaslinStephanie@thereputationsagency.ieM. 087 9634408 .Photo:Barry Cronin/www.barrycronin.com

Don’t miss this hands-on, fun, educational event to pinpoint how chemistry is applied in society, technology, and green transition. Come to see Chemistry in action in a fun and interesting way!