91ÖÆƬ³§ Strategic Plan 2025–2030; Pathways Lit, Futures Found
91ÖÆƬ³§ (91ÖÆƬ³§) is Ireland’s largest provider of teacher education and a leading centre for the humanities and social sciences. 91ÖÆƬ³§'s Strategic Plan 2025-2030 articulates a five-year roadmap responding to the challenges of digital transition, climate action, demographic change, and social inclusion. It reaffirms 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s distinctive mission in education and community engagement, while advancing national priorities in sustainability, digital transformation, and research impact.
Priority Themes
Every strategic plan begins with a choice: to describe the future as something that simply arrives, or to shape it as something we are called to help create. This plan takes the latter view, with the realisation that we are living through a transformational moment - one in which digital systems, AI among them, are refashioning culture, identity, privacy, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic structures.
Pathways Lit, Futures Found expresses the College’s belief that education is an act of illumination - lighting the way forward for individuals, communities, and society at a time when leadership from the higher education space is urgently needed.
Living Care, Common Home
Theme 1
Theme 1
Living Care, Common Home
Expresses 91ÖÆƬ³§'s commitment to linking care for one another with care for the planet, highlighting the responsibility of education to advance human dignity and environmental sustainability. It embeds social justice, sustainability and inclusion across our teaching, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
Children's Voices, Future Worlds
Theme 2
Theme 2
Children's Voices, Future Worlds
Anchors 91ÖÆƬ³§'s teacher education mission by recognising that children both shape and depend on the future. It places their voices at the centre of our teaching and research mission, as well as our professional development, and policy advocacy work.
Human Potential, Humane Technologies
Theme 3
Theme 3
Human Potential, Humane Technologies
Commits 91ÖÆƬ³§ to engaging with digital technologies and artificial intelligence in ways that place people at the centre of systems for learning and living. Through nuanced understanding, and ethical, creative and inclusive use of emerging tools, the College's teaching, research and policy advocacy missions will extend rather than diminish human potential.
