Seamus Hoyne

Seamus is a Chartered Engineer with 25 years experience across energy, climate action and education sectors working both Nationally and Internationally. He is passionate about developing innovation solutions to address skills and capacity needs for climate action. He leads the Faculty of Flexible and Work Based Learning in TUS, overseeing multiple industry engagement initiatives including upskilling 1,500 adult learners per annum. He coordinates the Digital Academy for Sustainable Built Environment (DASBE) initiative and has developed a wide range of sustainability programmes across energy, environment and management disciplines including a recent programme on ESG and Carbon Accounting for SMEs. He is Principle Investigator for the Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI) within TUS and his current research is focused on utilising futures thinking for sustainability planning in universities. He works extensively across Europe and leads a number of skills and capacity building initiatives for the European Commission.