MTU International Women's Day Celebration 2025
MTU’s Empowering Women to Lead Conference to Showcase Leaders and Role Models in celebration of International Women’s Day
Empowering Women to Lead 2025,
MTU’s 7th annual International Women’s Day event, takes place on Friday, 7th March, 2025 in the National Maritime College of Ireland. The conference, which aims to broaden the horizons of students and highlight opportunities for their future careers, promises to be hugely exciting. MTU is delighted to be organising the 2025 festival as a core value of the Institute is to support, encourage and nurture inclusivity, diversity, and equality within the student, staff, and alumni community.
MTU International Women’s Day will present iconic Cork-based role models, who will share their successful career path stories and provide tips and advice for students on how they can embark on their own successful career journeys.
Speakers on the day include; Shane Casey, Actor in the Young Offenders Series/Movie and Playwright and recent recipient of Cork Person of the year Award 2024, Gillian Harford, Country Executive 30% Club and Commander Roberta O’Brien, Associate Head of NMCI.
MTU is committed to the Athena Swan initiative and in 2024 we achieved our first Bronze Institutional Award. The Athena SWAN Charter was established to encourage and recognise commitment to gender equality and advancing the careers of women in the higher education and research STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine) domain. The charter has since been expanded to take a more intersectional approach to gender equality with consideration of race and ethnicity, and specifically including our trans and non-binary staff and students. The Charter goes on to expressly include the need to create a safe & positive campus culture, ending sexual violence, bullying and harassment for the University community.
Praising the MTU Empowering Women 2025 International Women’s Day initiative, Prof. Maggie Cusack, President of MTU said: “I am very much looking forward to opening the MTU’s 2025 International Women’s Day and welcoming all speakers, students, performers and guests to this event which is showcasing role models from across the MTU community. Inclusivity is the first of the four core values of MTU, and across the university we are committed to achieving increased diversity in all key decision-making bodies. Well done to our colleagues from across MTU who have come together to organise this celebration.
MTU EMPOWERING WOMEN 2025 is a free MTU community event organised by representatives from across the university. All are welcome to attend.
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ABOUT MTU
Munster Technological University is the southwest’s newest technological university consisting of six campuses across Cork and Kerry. The University has a student body of 18,000. It is a leader in higher education both regionally and internationally through the provision of a wide range of programmes ranging from apprenticeships and undergraduate degrees to Master’s and PhDs.
