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Email: studentvolunteering@universityofgalway.ie
Visit us! ALIVE in Aras na Mac Leinn
The ALIVE student volunteering office is located beside the Hub, Áras na Mac Léinn. The Hub is University of Galway's student common room, a great space to hang out, eat lunch, watch TV, play pool and have a chat.
The ALIVE office is located right beside the Hub, and we are open from 2-6 Monday - Friday for drop-in queries and a chat!
University of Galway ALIVE (@universityofgalwayalive) • Instagram photos and videos
Student Support and Engagement Hub
Linda Fitzgerald - Student Volunteering & PVA Manager
Nichola Keegan - Student Volunteering & PVA Snr Admin
Maeve McMahon- Student Volunteering & PVA Admin
Email: studentvolunteer@ul.ie
Instagram: Instagram
Facebook: Facebook
TikTok: UL President's Volunteer Award (@ul_pva_) | TikTok
Linkedin: UL Student Volunteering Office - PVA: Overview | LinkedIn
Contact : UCD in the Community
Email: ucdic@ucd.ie
Telephone: 01 716 2409/2268
Address:
Coote Hub, First Floor, UCD Village Block E4,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4
Contact:
Claire Flannery
TU Dublin Student Volunteering Co-ordinator
Instagram: instagram.com/tudublinvolunteering
Societies & Volunteering Office
TU Dublin
Aungier Street
D02 HW71
Ireland
Lead Coordinator of the UCC EmployAgility Awards Programme.
Tel: +353 (0)21 490 4802 main reception number
Email: careerawards@ucc.ie
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Atlantic Technological University (ATU)
Rosalynn Bovaird, ATU Donegal: rosalynn.bovaird@atu.ie
Kelley Hester, ATU Sligo: kelley.hester@atu.ie
Email:
● Meadhbh Hannon, Student Volunteer Coordinator, DCU Volunteer
● Emily Cathcart, VP for Community and Citizenship, DCU Students’ Union
● Office of Student Life, ( studentlife@dcu.ie )
Social Media:
● Webpages: DCU Volunteer
● Instagram: DCU Volunteer
TikTok: DCU Students’ Union
Student Volunteer Ireland is a social enterprise driven by Irish higher education institutions that have created together a national collaborative platform and a shared online resource to connect students and Volunteer Involving Organisations such as community groups, charities, schools, hospitals, public bodies, non profits and NGOs across Ireland.
Student Volunteer Ireland manage the innovative software www.StudentVolunteer.ie and comprise of Executive, Management and Advisory Groups to guide the growth and development of student volunteering initiatives for enabling and rewarding student volunteering.
Our Mission
To consolidate, strengthen, enable, and promote higher education (HE) student volunteering in Ireland. Our work focuses on delivering higher education civic engagement policies and practices by acknowledging, sustaining, growing, reporting, researching, and recognising student volunteers across the sector.
Our Vision
Every third-level student in Ireland has the opportunity to volunteer and this activity is recognised and supported throughout their volunteering journey.
Read our Strategy that documents our history, our impact and our plans for growing student volunteering movements across Ireland through four pillars and fifteen actions.
In partnership with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education we deliver our micro-credential Digital Badge to staff, students and partners that seek to enhance their practice with theoretical and research frameworks.
Enabling Student Volunteering Open Course
Read our Impact Report that outlines the societal and economic impact of student volunteering.
Our Impact Report shares our three stakeholder perspectives - Student, Community and Higher Education - on the benefits of student volunteering.
Our Annual Conference is a gathering of students, community partners and HEI staff to connect on all things student volunteering!
2026 Theme - Exploring Volunteering for the SDGs
2025 Theme - Empowering Sustainable Development
Across HEIs the Gaisce Medal and its personal and professional development opportunities are supported. Student Volunteer Ireland are Strategic Partners of Gaisce. Together we support President Award Leaders (PALs) to support students to volunteer towards their Gaisce medal.
Funded by Irish Aid, Student Volunteer Ireland and Gaisce have teamed up to deliver 2025/2026 series of workshops, Symposiums and Residentials for student volunteers on Global Citizenship themes: SDGs, global issues, systemic challenges, system changes, and roots of inequality.
Have a read about "Roots and Shoots" and stay up-to-date with Events
Check out our Project Launch: News Reel
Check out our Student Volunteering Conference: News Reel
StudentVolunteer.ie and Comhámh signed a partnership agreement to ensure that all volunteering opportunities promoted to students through our website are officially Comhlámh Code of Good Practice Signatories. This ensures that students are receiving excellent support and training as part of their overseas volunteering experiences.
The Code of Good Practice for Development Education at IDEA is a framework to support organisations that are committed to global citizenship education. StudentVolunteer.ie is a Code Member and adheres to the principles of social justice, student voice and democratic ways of engaging.
Localise lead on the development of the National Youth Volunteering Portfolio (MyVP) and StudentVolunteer.ie partner in this groundbreaking reflection and recognition tool to enable young people to reflect on their skills and learning in order to build their civic understandings and access educational and employment pathways.
The Volunteer Charter at Volunteer Ireland is the national framework to support volunteers and Volunteer Involving Organisations that are committed to good practice. StudentVolunteer.ie is a Charter Member and adheres to the principles outlined to ensure that both volunteers and VIOs are supported.
BICS - Board of Irish College Societies
BICS is a national organisation dedicated to providing a national forum for student societies in Ireland’s third-level institutes. Over the last 30 years, BICS has worked to promote interest in and recognition for the activities of third-level societies, including the establishment of the annual National Society Awards, a highlight of the academic calendar for student leaders across the country.
As partners Student Volunteer Ireland and BICS collaborate to enhance and enable national standards for student engagement, leadership and student-community action.
National Consortium for Peer-Led Transition
Student Peer Mentoring is a valued student volunteering activity within academia. Often more senior students are recruited, trained and recognised for volunteering to offer social support to incoming first-year students.
To learn more about peer mentoring visit the dedicated national resource coordinated at TCD:
The RPL in Higher Education Project
Realising the Potential of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Lifelong Learning Opportunities Project, which commenced in 2020, is funded by the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and co-sponsored by the Irish Universities Association (IUA) and the Technological Universities Association (TUA). The project has worked collaboratively with 14 partner Higher Education institutions and other key stakeholders to develop and promote RPL practices across the sector.
RPL is an important higher education policy and practice that aligns to StudentVolunteer.ie.
Volunteering builds real skills and learning such as teamwork, leadership, planning, communication, training and more. Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a way higher education institutions can recognise learning you’ve gained outside the classroom (including through volunteering) to support entry, advanced entry, or exemptions, depending on the institution and programme.
If you volunteer through a participating university programme, StudentVolunteer.ie can help you log your activity, build your volunteering portfolio, and (in many cases) access a certificate/record of your experience which is useful when you’re gathering evidence for an RPL conversation.
Explore More: Learn how RPL works on priorlearning.ie
The Limerick Framework for Action: Advancing the Global Health Promoting Campuses Agenda
Action 8 - “Mobilise and Empower Students to be Active Local and Global Citizens, Future Decision-makers, and Change-Agents.”
StudentVolunteer.ie is excited to support Action 8
This action emphasises:
Technological University Dublin: Student Volunteer Coordinator
University College Cork: Head of Partnerships
University College Dublin: UCD in the Community
University of Galway: Head of Engagement
University of Limerick: Student Volunteering Office
Student Representatives
Technological University Dublin: Head of Sport and Societies
University College Cork: Head of Research Culture, Engagement and Impact
University College Dublin: Dean of Students
University of Galway: Dean of Students
University of Limerick: Head of Student Affairs & Associate Professor of Student Engagement
Student Representatives
Members of our Community and higher education networks support us through our Advisory Board:
Our Student Advisory Group undertake training on decision-making in higher education with NSTEP.
Atlantic Technological University:
Dublin City University:
TU Dublin:
www.studentvolunteer.ie/tudublin
University of Galway:
www.studentvolunteer.ie/universityofgalway
University of Limerick:
www.studentvolunteer.ie/ul
University College Cork:
www.studentvolunteer.ie/ucc
University College Dublin:
www.studentvolunteer.ie/ucd
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