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From NCAD. 21 October 2025.
NCAD and partners collaborate on CO-CREATE Ireland: Art and Design Research Network for Inclusive Futures.
NCAD ile Belfast Sanat Okulu at Ulster University have been awarded almost €4 million for Co-Create Ireland: an Art and Design Research Network for Inclusive Futures. CO-CREATE Ireland is a collaboration with multiple organisations, North and South,including additional academic partners Atlantik Teknoloji Üniversitesive Limerick Üniversitesi CO-CREATE Ireland will realise a pioneering new programme for socially-engaged art and design research in Ireland. The scheme will formally launch in March 2026.
About CO-CREATE
CO-CREATE is an island-wide network for new thinking and innovative making in art and design. The programme will offer opportunities for PhD and post-doctoral researchers to develop new projects through collaboration with an array of community and cultural organisations across four research themes. The programme aims to engage the creativity of diverse communities and foster forms of co-created research that will help to drive societal transformation and cultivate inclusivity in public services, climate action, health and inclusive heritage.
CO-CREATE is a Shared Island initiative within the North-South Research Programme, administered by the Higher Education Authority on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Sciences. It is one of only four Shared Island projects funded as part of the North-South Research Programme — and the first to be awarded to the field of creative practice.
Across the four main areas of research activity – public services, climate action, health and inclusive heritage – CO-CREATE researchers will explores issues such as:
- How can co-created models of design and participatory art practice help to strengthen community-led approaches to public services, supporting the development of local solutions for pressing issues like childcare and stimulating social enterprise?
- How artists and designers can collaborate with local initiatives in fostering environmentally aware and ecologically sustainable practices, prioritising local ecosystems and circular economies based on peer-to-peer skills-sharing?
- How design research might help to foster more inclusive approaches to healthcare, responding to the increasing pressures of ageing populations, rising youth mental health issues, and regional disparities in care access?
- How the work of artists can support the implementation of more inclusive models of public heritage, helping museums and other public spaces to develop critical conversations on intersectional injustice and societal representation?
CO-CREATE will establish a robust new infrastructure for advanced art and design research training and knowledge exchange in Ireland. In addition to support the work of researchers and collaborating organisational partners, NCAD and the partner institutions will develop a series of ‘shared Island’ short courses in applied creative research methods for societal transformation. These courses will further support researchers through formalising a multidisciplinary all-island doctoral network across art and design, focusing specifically on engaged research.
With academic partners in all four Irish provinces and twenty-three other affiliated institutions across the island — from cultural organisations and local development groups to craft enterprises and ecological initiatives — CO-CREATE research projects will forge multiple new connections: initiating new conversations on the potential of art and design to advance innovation and inclusivity in social and community contexts.
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From December 2025, the CO-CREATE academic partners will be inviting applications for full-time and fully funded PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the areas of public services, climate action, health and inclusive heritage. These four-year opportunities will pioneer embedded, collaborative work as a core feature of the research experience.
The official launch of the CO-CREATE programme will take place in March 2026.