Global Partnerships Team

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 ((opens in a new window)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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roles & Responsibilities

Role	Responsibility
Proposer (School or College)	Proposal initiation, day-to-day management of partnership/programme
School or College committee (Governing Board)	Oversight of programmes
Vice - Principal International	Sponsors the partnership at all phases
UMT-GEG	University-level oversight and endorsement partnerships/collaborations
UMT, UPB	Approvers
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
Curriculum Team, Administrative Services (UCD Registry)	Collaborative programme implementation
UCD Quality Office	Management of Periodic Quality Review and Annual Programme Reporting

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