Events
Page reviewed 3 September 2025
2025 Events & Programmes
- Winter Celebration (Q4)
 - Wellbeing Event (Q4)
 - WellUCD - Active Autumn Programme (Q4)
 - Start of Academic Year Celebration 2025 (Q3)
 - Fit February (Q1) 
  
- Learn to swim
 - Yoga, Pilates, Fitness Blast, Mindfulness
 - Social event
 
 - Fit February Team Challenge (Q1)
 - VIA Awards (Q1)
 - Retirement Event (Q1)
 - Memorial Event (Q2)
 - Long Service Awards (Q4)
 
2024 Events & Programmes
- Employee Winter Celebration (Event concluded)
 - WellUCD - Wellbeing Wednesday Webinars (Event concluded)
 - WellUCD - Free Health Screening (Event concluded)
 - WellUCD - Start your journey (Event concluded)
 - Start of Academic Year Celebration (Event concluded)
 - Launch of UCD Workvivo
 - Memorial Event (Event concluded)
 - Get Set For Summer 2024 (Programme Concluded)
 - Community Concert (Event concluded)
 - Staff Clubs
 - Fit February (Programme Concluded) 
  
- Learn to swim
 - Team Challenge
 - Fitness blast
 - Social event
 
 
2023 Events & Programmes
- Winter Celebration 2023
 - VIA Awards (Review in progress)
 - UCD Employee Wellbeing Day
 - Active Autumn
 - Start of Academic Year Celebration
 - Get Set for Summer
 - Ukraine Concert & Donations
 - Hello Spring!
 - Winter Fitness Programme
 - 20th IUA HR Conference
 
2022 Events & Programmes
- Employee Winter Celebration
 - Financial wellbeing - Protect yourself against increasing mortgage rates
 - Values In Action awards 2022
 - Autumn Fitness Team Challenge 2022
 - Healthy UCD Autumn Fitness 2022
 - On your bike! - Bike Expo 2022
 - World Mental Health Day 2022
 - Employee Thank You Day 2022
 - Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022
 - Puck'n Chat
 - Bike Day 2022
 - Spring into Summer
 - Climb Lyons Hill
 - Return to the workplace webinars- Mental Health & Wellbeing Supports
 - Volunteering for employees
 - 5+ Team Challenge
 - Financial Wellbeing
 
Recurring programmes and events / partner sites
- UCD Values
 - UCD Awards (Long service / VIA Awards)
 - Special Offers
 - Employee Clubs
 - UCD Staff Photography Club
 - (opens in a new window)Purl Jam (opens Purl Jam website)
 - UCD Community Choir (opens choir website)
 - Engagement Policies
 - Volunteering
 - Kids Colouring Books
 
2021 events & programmes
- 4Men- Men's Health Webinars
 - Back to the campus - Healthy UCD autumn programme
 - Step on it - Employee Step challenge
 - 4Women - Women's Health Webinars
 - Financial Wellbeing Webinar Wednesdays (FW3)
 - Ask the Vet - Webinar - Thursday, 29 July, 11am (45 mins)
 - Achieving Financial Wellbeing Webinar - Thursday, 27 May, 11 am (60 mins)
 - Workplace Wellbeing Day 2021
 - Find Your Balance - Webinar Series
 - Better Together Challenge - for UCDVO
 - UCD Challenge - for Special Olympics Ireland
 - Healthy UCD Spring Nutrition Seminars
 - Fitness classes live from UCD
 - Spectrum Life Wellbeing Hub introduction (19th January)
 
2020 events & programmes
- 2020 - Off-Campus Engagement! 
          
- Yoga
 - Drawing
 - Photography
 - Financial wellbeing
 - Purl Jam
 - Community Choir
 - Autumn Wellbeing Series
 
 - 2020 - Cybersafety for families
 - 2020 - Outdoor Fitness Classes
 - 2020 - Workplace Wellbeing Day
 - 2020 - COVID-related Private Health Insurance Update
 - 2020 - Social Distancing Step Challenge
 - 2020 - Women's Mini Marathon - Join Team UCD - Postponed
 - 2020 - RÁS (5K) in aid of UCD Volunteers Overseas - Postponed
 - 2020 - Feelgood February - Postponed
 - 2020 - Buying an electric vehicle with Michael Sheridan
 - 2020 - Financial Wellbeing - Updating you health insurance for 2020 with Dermot Goode
 - 2020 - Lunchtime Sketching Club
 - 2020 - Social Hurling
 - 2020 - UCD Village Market (Thursdays)
 
2019 events & programmes
- 2019 - Sustainability & electric cars
 - 2019 - UCD Awards
 - 2019 - Work / Life @ UCD - An employee engagement day
 - 2019 - Restart a Heart
 - 2019 - 'Step into Autumn' - 2019 Autumn Programme
 - 2019 - Values in Action Awards
 - 2019 - Step Challenge
 - 2019 - Financial Wellbeing page launched
 - 2019 - 'Social Hurling' - pilot programme
 - 2019 - Get set for summer! - 2019 summer programme
 - 2019 - Launch of Staff Clubs
 - 2019 - Healthy UCD Video showcases joint initiatives in the area of sport and health
 - 2019 - UCD Oskar's
 - 2019 - Kick start your year with Yoga, Boot Camp and 'Desk to 5K'
 - 2019 - RÁS (5K)
 - 2019 - International Women's Day (EDI site)
 - 2019 - Healthy eating week (Healthy UCD site)
 
2018 events & programmes
- Engagement Event 2018
 - 2018 Values in Action Awards
 - 2018 Culture & Engagement Survey
 - 2018 - Back to School (Autumn Programme)
 - 2018 - Get set for SUMMER! (Summer Programme)
 - Financial Wellbeing Programmes
 - 2018 Healthy UCD Step Challenge
 - 2018 Desk to 5K
 
2016/17 events & programmes
- 2017 Christmas Movies & Moments
 - 2017 Engagement Event - November 7
 - 2017 Healthy UCD Step Challenge
 - 2017 Photography Competition (Summer 2017)
 - 2017 Strictly UCD
 - Hell & Back 2017
 - 2016 GCC pilot programme with Healthy UCD
 - 2016 UCD Festival report - dancing, singing and drumming!
 - 2016 Culture & Engagement Survey