TUDublin Polytechnic Summit

The Summit will also provide an opportunity to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 and will offer us all an opportunity to explore the ways in which we
can collaborate more effectively using our new-found virtual engagement skills. The 2021 Polytechnic Summit will take place from Wednesday 2nd June 2021 to Friday 4th June
2021 at Technological University Dublin. TU Dublin is the first of many previous firsts – beginning as Ireland’s first technical school in the 1870s, to becoming Ireland’s first College
of Technology in the early part of the twentieth century, to Ireland’s first Institute of Technology in 1978, and now Ireland’s first Technological University.

PS2021 offers local and virtual participants the unique opportunity to network, to collaborate, to visit, to inform, and to learn from the development of TU Dublin, and from developments
at other practice-based higher education institutions. PS2021 will be held in the East Quad building at TU Dublin’s brand new City Centre campus, which is among the largest modern
educational construction projects in Europe. Participants will get to explore and present topics that are core to polytechnic education in our new state-of-the art facilities in the heart
of Dublin city.

Abstract Submissions

Submissions on these broad themes can be refined and focused through the inclusion of
keywords that describe your submission and allow us to organise our tracks to make them
more inter-related, connected and interesting.
When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to indicate the area(s) of your abstract by
selecting five (or more) topic areas. Keywords to consider include the following:
21st Century
Student
Alliance
Applied Research
Apprenticeships
Arts in Polytechnic
Assessment Modes
Collaboration
Communication
Craft
Creativity
Culture
Curriculum
Design
Diversity
Earn-and-Learn
Engineering
Environment
Equality
Experiential
Learning
Employability
Gender
Global Pandemic &
Response
Global Teaching
Graduate Skills
Inclusion
Innovation
Instructional
Design
Integrated
Research
Intercultural
Competence
International
Leadership
Learning Spaces
Organisational
Design
Participation
Pedagogy
Planet
Polytechnic
Polytechnic
Experience
Polytechnic
Learning
Polytechnic
Teaching
Programmes
Practice-Based
Learning
Representation
Research /
Teaching Nexus
Scientific
Student-Centered
Sustainability &
Summer School
Sustainability
Teamwork
Technology
Trades
University
Abstracts may be submitted up until Friday 22nd January 2021. Further information is
available by emailing: polytech.summit2021@tudublin.ie.