The Undergraduate Awards

The Undergraduate Awards was founded in 2008 by two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Oisin Hanrahan and Paddy Cosgrave, as an initiative to celebrate students who propose fresh arguments and new approaches, providing undergraduate students with an opportunity to accelerate their ideas on a global platform. From humble beginnings, UA has rapidly expanded to include top-tier universities across the globe, and, in February 2012, the organisation was deeply honoured to receive the official patronage of the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. Spanning all institutions on the island of Ireland and select top-tier institutions in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom, the Undergraduate Awards is open to students in their final or penultimate year on an undergraduate degree course. In our quest to create a network of future thought-leaders and innovators across the globe, the Undergraduate Awards brings the UA winners to Ireland for the UA Summit - an action-packed three days that provides a collision point for the brightest undergraduate minds to collaborate, build relationships and revel in all that the city of Dublin has to offer.