CATALISI Partner Providing Global Leadership on Impact Assessment

University College Cork (UCC) is one of eleven partner organizations in the Horizon Europe funded project CATALISI – Catalysation of institutional transformations of Higher Education Institutions. The project seeks to accelerate change in Research Capacity in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through acceleration services and targeted transformation pathways and interventions.

UCC is leading the CATALISI evaluation and impact assessment, supporting the participating HEI’s with a Theory of Change approach to evaluate their interventions and indeed their overall impact. UCC is a global leader on impact oriented research and innovation, and was placed 8th globally in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings in 2021.

UCC recently published (December 2024) an Economic and Societal Impact Report UCCEconomicandSocietalImpact2024.pdf, which is an assessment of the impact of UCC’s activities in its region, nationally and internationally. This peer reviewed report and the methodologies its uses, intersects and aligns well with the impact focus at the core of the CATALISI initiative.

The analysis reflects best practice applied in other impact studies of universities and higher education institutions in Ireland, and more broadly including the UK. The results confirm the significant and growing social and economic impacts of UCC locally, nationally and globally.

The UCC Report offers a high-level framework or exemplar for others across the CATALISI Network, European University Alliances and HEI’s submitting to the Times Higher Education World University Impact Rankings, on how to capture the economic and societal impact of their higher education institutions. 

On behalf of the UCC Catalisi Team including Dr. Martin Galvin, Dr. David O’Connell, Ciara O’Halloran, Matteo Pallocca.

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