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ATU Strategic Plan 2024-2028
One Year On

Impact Spotlights 2024-2025

Explore the Impact Spotlights associated with our five strategic Guiding Lights that have taken place between 2024-25.Contents

Enabling Education

Engaged Research

Connected Ecosystem

Transformed Organisation

Sustainability for the Future

One Year On

ATU Strategic Plan 2025 Impact Spotlights

Open Minds, Bright Futures

The Strategic Plan is built around five Guiding Lights.

Enabling Education, Engaged Research and a Connected Ecosystem are underpinned by Organisation Transformation and viewed through the lens of Sustainability for the Future.

President Dr Orla Flynn shares insights on ATU's Strategic Plan 2024-2028

We're shining a spotlight on some activities happening across ATU that align with our guiding lights.

Starting this April, each week we will share a selection of key activities related to a different guiding light:

Week 1: Introduction to the Strategic Plan
Week 2: Enabling Education
Week 3: Engaged Research
Week 4: Connected Ecosystem
Week 5: Transformed Organisation
Week 6: Sustainable Future

Monitoring Strategy Implementation

In total, 27 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were identified to monitor the implementation and performance of the five guiding lights.

These KPIs are regularly reviewed by the strategic sub-committee to ensure that they continue to align with the future vision of our organisation.

Keep reading for the list of strategy KPIs in the following slides.

Strategy KPIs for Enabling Education

We are tracking the number of:

Non-progression rates for Year 1
Graduation rates
Students accessing university via widening participation routes (e.g., HEAR, DARE, Mature, Access)
Apprentice students
Students who attended DEIS schools
Springboard+ students
Overall part-time and online learning students

How would you rate ATU's current campus culture in terms of inclusiveness?

Excellent
Good
Fair
Room to improve

We are tracking the number of:

Annual research expenditure
Successful funding awards
Postgraduate students
Postdoctoral researchers under TU Rise
Professors

Strategy KPIs for Engaged Research

What do you believe should be the top priority for research and innovation?

Growth and diversification in research funding
Expansion of the research community
Increase in collaborative research projects with industry

The TU RISE project is playing a major role in enhancing the institutional research capacity at ATU. Watch this space!

We are tracking the number of:

Enterprise engagements
Start-Ups supported on ATU campuses
External engagement activities
Persons reached through engagement activities
Cross-border activities
Total international students (non-EU)
Full-time international students
EU GREEN mobilities

Strategy KPIs for Connected Ecosystem

How much do you feel you know about ATU's activity and engagement with industry partners?

I know a lot
I know a little
I know nothing

Strategy KPIs (continued)

Organisation Transformation

Staff experience survey item (to be developed)
Postgraduate research student score for research experience from National student survey
Undergraduate student score for supportive environment from National Student survey
Annual surplus
Income from philanthropy/donations

Sustainability for the Future

Reduction in carbon emissions across campuses
New programme curricula from major Level 8 awards identified at programme validation stage that have embedded Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) content
Research projects focused on sustainability challenges e.g., clean energy and resource efficiency