Climate Entrepreneurship (P. Grad. Cert.)

Course Overview

You can find the main webpage and application link for this Springboard+ funded course here.

On this programme, you will learn the fundamentals of idea development, creative problem solving and innovation. You will be able to identify and respond to today’s climate action opportunities and value in a focused manner. You will be equipped with the entrepreneurial skills to introduce new and improved solutions to today's climate change impacts and the future environmental risks.

You will learn to approach problem-solving in an innovative way, by using tools and techniques to brainstorm new ideas and applying lateral thinking. By engaging with entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders and industry mentors in an informal learning environment, you will learn the fundamentals of both and by availing of valuable peer-to-peer learning you will experience the process of bringing an idea through from development through to implementation.

This course will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to climate change goals as set out by government by equipping you with:

• A set of frameworks and tools to identify and generate entrepreneurial opportunities that will have a positive impact on climate change.
  
• The skills to plan and develop strategies, action plans or sustainable ventures that contribute to climate change mitigation and drive economic development.
  
• The ability to analyse theoretical concepts associated with systems innovation and entrepreneurship in relation to climate change.
  
• The communication skills to interact with stakeholders and enable behavioural changes with multiple stakeholders, enable behavioural changes and explain their influence to drive position climate action.
  
• The knowledge & skills to evaluate ethical, social, commercial and political factors in decision making to support climate entrepreneurship.

Funding eligibility is as outlined in the Springboard+ website.

Applicants must be in possession of a level 8 honours degree (or equivalent), in any discipline from a recognised institution and supply an academic reference as one of the two references required. Those with demonstrated entrepreneurship aspirations will be prioritised.

Applicants who do not meet the entry requirements may still be considered if they can demonstrate their suitability for the course based on recognition of prior learning (RPL) under Trinity’s RPL policy and procedures.

English Language Requirements

All applicants to Trinity are required to provide official evidence of proficiency in the English language. Applicants to this course are required to meet Band B (Standard Entry) English language requirements. For more details of qualifications that meet Band B, see the English Language Requirements page here.

All students are required to have a laptop or a PC, a webcam and stable Internet connection.

Graduates from this programme will be equipped with the entrepreneurial skills to plan and develop strategies, action plans and sustainable ventures that address urgent environmental challenges and drive economic development. Graduates have effected change in their own workplace, pursued careers in consultancy, and gone into further academic research.