Our Commitment to Sustainability

The MIC ACIS 2024 Organizing Committee are proud to share a number of important sustainability initiatives @ACIS 2024:

• Sustainable Catering
• ACIS 2024 – Slow Travel Award
• Native Reforestation Initiative
• Sustainable Transport

Masterchefs are a local catering company who have strong commitments to sustainability. Masterchefs are our catering partner and have worked closely with us to reduce the environmental impacts of catering @ACIS2024, through:

• No single use materials
• Locally sourced, seasonal produce
• Commitment to zero waste

You can read about Masterchefs County Limerick farm here.

Academic conferences remain a source of significant travel-related environmental impacts, chiefly from air travel-related emissions, but also including impacts from travel by car, taxi, bus, van etc.

Our ‘Slow Travel Award’ acknowledges those colleagues who have gone above and beyond in travelling to be with us in Limerick via the most sustainable options available. Whether by foot, ferry, camel, canoe, tandem, train, bicycle, bus, horse or (electric) Honda, we want to hear about your slow and sustainable journey to ACIS 2024. 

This is not an exercise in “flygskam” (“flight shame”) as our Swedish friends put it! Many of our delegates face significant time-pressures related to conference attendance, or may have to travel over vast oceans to join us.

Rather, we wish to celebrate those travel pioneers setting an individual example to positively influence others through their low-carbon and sustainable journey to ACIS 2024.

Should you wish to enter the ‘Slow Travel Award’, please provide us with a short (300 word) narrative describing your journey to ACIS 2024 and explaining why you deserve this accolade! Email: ACIS2024@mic.ul.ie.

Also, tweet us on your slow travel journey to let us know how things are going! #ACIS2024slowtravel.

We have partnered with Wolfgang Reforest, a social enterprise who aim to start a movement of people to plant trees and to reforest Ireland. Read more about Wolfgang Reforest here.

Wolfgang Reforest are currently regenerating Tomnafinnoge woods in Co. Wicklow, located deep in the River Ow valley just beyond Aughrim. Wolfgang Reforest have already planted 30,000 across two sites. In the coming years, the aim is to plant 30,000 more fast-growing native trees here, with the help of supporters, and in doing so, to use funds raised to acquire further sites to reforest.

You can learn more and join the project here.

**please note, this is not an ‘offsetting’ initiative.

Public Transport

Detailed information on public transport in Limerick City is available here.

Bike Share

TFI Bikes is a great way to get around Limerick. Bike stations are located throughout the city to provide a healthy and convenient means of transport. A 3-day TFI Bike Share pass is available for a low fee and can be accessed here.