The Trinity TY Visions for Education programme

Applications for February 2026 open from 4th to 28th September 2025

The TY Visions for Education programme runs each year in February, from Monday to Friday between approximately 10.00 - 16.00 in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin.

We will focus the TY week around the theme of learning spaces of the future.  Our goal is to encourage fun, inclusion and collaboration. 

The programme involves sessions around design thinking, diversity and equity, leadership, student voice and empowerment and innovation for learning.  The participants will complete a team-based project focused on learning experiences for the future In the team … ALL SKILLS ARE NEEDED AND VALUED.

We value the voices, thoughts and insights of young people.  In this programme, we are seeking as wide a range of voices as possible and we will provide a safe and welcoming space for all.  If you require any assistance in order to take part in our programme fully or are worried this programme might not be for you, don't hesitate to contact us at TYeducation@tcd.ie. 

As there are a limited number of spaces, participants will be offered a place based on their responses in the application form. Our selection criteria aims to ensure we have a wide range of voices represented on the TY programme - young people committed to creating new visions for education. 

We reserve a number of places on the programme for students from DEIS and Trinity Access linked schools.

Application process:

To apply please fill out the TY Visions for Education Application Form here: https://forms.office.com/r/zZGV9z7e53

Please Note:  This application form must be completed by the TY student WITH their parent/guardian as we need parental consent to process the applicant's personal data.  

After completing the application form, you will receive an email with a link to a Dropbox folder where have to upload your TY Visions Application Form file. Please note that your application will not be considered unless this document is uploaded. 

What do you put in your TY-Visions application document? 

You need to answer these three questions:

1. What do you hope to gain from taking part in the Trinity TY Visions for Education programme?
2. What do you hope to contribute to the Trinity TY Visions for Education programme?
3. What are your ideas for making schools a better place for all?

You should then name your file as follows - Your Name - School Name -TY-Visions.pdf / .doc / .ppt

Files will only be accepted via the Dropbox link. We cannot accept anything by email. 

We will make offers of places by email to the successful students. We will also email your TY coordinator to let them know. When you are offered a place, you have 5 days to notify us by email confirming you are accepting the place. Due to an anticipated high demand, we can only offer a place to students once. If you do not accept your place within 5 days we will offer the place to the next student on the list.

Due to the nature of this waiting list system and the extremely high number of applicants, we will only contact you if you are successful in securing a place.

We are unfortunately unable to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants owing to the volume of applications anticipated.

For further information please contact us at TYeducation@tcd.ie

Here’s some feedback from our 2025 TY students: 

“My main highlights were doing activities such as creating projects on what changes we would make in schools.”

“I enjoyed all the collaboration and how lovely all the faculty members were.”

“My main highlight was going on the tour, scavenger hunt and walking around Trinity. It was amazing going around the beautiful campus!”  

“I enjoyed Monday tour of campus and finding locations around Trinity, Tuesday’s outside learning with my groups poem, the climbing wall and fencing on Wednesday and selling subjects to investors on Thursday.”

“I enjoyed meeting new people and learning about different disabilities and how they can affect learning.”

“I enjoyed the climbing wall, fencing, going to the art gallery and the geography workshop we did on the Tuesday.”