Course Summary
Design for Climate Action imagines real, positive, and impactful change, generating dynamic and creative concepts to address complex environmental and social challenges resulting from climate change.
This course looks to equip emerging learners with an awareness and understanding of climate change issues and the urgency for meaningful action, while also providing tools, methods, and platforms to influence behavioural, personal, professional, and sectoral change.
The Professional Certificate in Design for Climate Action develops skills directly aligned with Ireland’s and Europe’s most urgent sectoral priorities. The programme equips participants with an understanding of climate change issues and the design tools, methodologies, and platforms needed to influence behavioural, personal, professional, and sectoral change.
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Career Sectors
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Entry Requirements
Application Details
Apply To NCAD
Applications via springboardcourses.ie to open in June 2026
Application Date:
22/09/2026
The Student
Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests. If these interests do not describe you, this course may prepare you for work you may not find satisfying.
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, the performing arts or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Career Progression
Graduates develop competencies in climate-responsive design thinking, collaborative project development addressing environmental and social challenges, carbon literacy, and the ability to communicate and implement meaningful climate action through creative practice.
These skills are directly applicable in roles across sustainability consultancy, creative industries, public sector climate action teams, NGOs, and enterprise sustainability functions.
