Example Initiatives for Sustainability

✓ Build innovative, resourced, and sustainable, new models of partnership, which support placement based activities, including in the private sector and international placements; Define non-traditional placement settings; [UL1.2.6; UL 3.2.3]

✓ Provide opportunities to share skillsets of support staff, thus enhancing career development opportunities and functional effectiveness; Review current and potential opportunities for professional and support staff, at local and faculty level, for involvement in activities that will enhance their career progression, e.g. project work, special interest committees and consult with them on what supports are needed to enhance career progression [UL 5.2.2]

✓ Support the development of cross-university - hospital - community governance structure for clinical and community research [UL 5.2.2]

✓ Increase numbers of students taking health programmes, including medicine, nursing & midwifery, allied health, and clinical psychology; and international students. Increase numbers of teacher education students in key need areas, such as maths and upskilling programmes [UL 1.1.3]

✓ Support academic and research programmes, and associated appointments, which benefit the Limerick health ecosystem. These might include inter-cultural competence, leadership and inter-professional working. The Health Science Academy will inform developments in the

Health space [UL 4.1.1; UL 4.2.2]

✓ Align our programme development with the needs of the Professional community (ie health, education etc); [UL 4.1.1]

✓ Encourage students and staff to participate in green internationalisation, via virtual exchange and collaboration [UL 3.1.2; UL 3.2.4]

✓ Encourage our students to participate in volunteering and the Presidents

Volunteer Award scheme [UL 4.1.1; UL 4.2.1]

✓ Commit to green targets related to work practices for the faculty and ask each staff member to set individual level targets for these (examples include: Reduction of Journeys, reduction of printing, increase use of digital media for marketing and programme materials, the proportion of hybrid); [UL 3.2.4]

✓ Support remote and hybrid working for EHS staff where business needs are met, including an individual and team ‘keep connected’ plan [UL 5.3.2]

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