Dublin Learning City Festival 2026
The Dublin Learning City Festival returned from Wednesday, 22nd to 25th of April 2026, and what a celebration of learning it was!
This year’s theme, To Belong, brought residents together to meet new people, explore fresh ideas, and discover new ways to learn across Dublin. Over four days, the festival created space for connection and curiosity across the city.
Thank you to everyone who joined us on their lifelong learning journey at the Dublin Learning City Festival 2026!
From our full lineup of FREE events, we hope you found something that sparked a new learning adventure.
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Learning Neighbourhoods: Bringing Lifelong Learning Closer to Home
Dublin Learning City’s Learning Neighbourhoods programme is about one simple idea: everyone should be able to find learning, training and educational opportunities right on their own doorstep. Since the programme began, we’ve worked with local communities across the city to map out what’s already there, connect residents to it, and build networks that make lifelong learning part of everyday neighbourhood life.
So far, two areas of Dublin have been officially recognised as UNESCO Learning Neighbourhoods — with a third now underway.
Dublin awarded prestigious UNESCO Learning City Award 2021
Investing in human capital is crucial to Dublin’s successful development, and lifelong learning is key to this endeavour. As a learning city, it pursues the principle of ‘learning for work, life and fun’ through wide-ranging initiatives coordinated by six local colleges and institutes together with further partners. The ‘Your Place is Here’ campaign encouraging enrolment in higher education regardless of educational background, age, or individual circumstances, and the Healthy Dublin City project offering six learning programmes to improve citizens’ personal, physical and mental health are just two of the many initiatives available to Dublin’s population of more than 1.2 million.
Access the multimedia story to learn more about the UNESCO learning city of Dublin
Video message by Alison Gilliland, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland
D2/D4 Pearse Street, Ringsend & Irishtown announces UNESCO Learning Neighbourhood
/in News /by Emer MurphyKey UNESCO Dublin Learning City Festival 2026 Event
Dublin’s third Learning Neighbourhood was announced today in St Andrew’s Resource Centre, as part of the Dublin Learning City Festival 2026 with James Lawless, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science of Ireland. Read more