Focused expertise
Tap into a concentrated team of researchers in AI, climate and sustainability, working full-time on your specific problem for five days.
AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox
Tackle your company’s climate and sustainability challenge with AI.
The Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water, in partnership with Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet, invites forward-thinking companies to take part in an intensive, one-week AI Sandbox event at Trinity College Dublin, where AI will tackle your climate and sustainability challenges.
Bring your most pressing AI and sustainability challenge and a team of AI specialists, climate modelers, hydrologists and energy experts will use their skills to deliver innovative, research driven solutions you need. Over five days, your problem will be analysed, modelled, and prototyped. You’ll walk away with early-stage solutions, tested code, open-source documentation, and a strategic report tailored to your business.
Business benefits
Turn a climate or sustainability challenge into a practical AI prototype
Over five focused days, your organisation gets concentrated technical expertise, structured experimentation and tangible outputs designed around a real business challenge.
Rapid prototyping
Watch your challenge evolve from concept to near-solution within a week, complete with tangible outputs and tested code.
Risk-free experimentation
Safely test AI models and data strategies without disrupting existing systems or committing to a large transformation project.
Open-source outputs
Receive openly shared outputs, from code to methodology, to support replication, internal learning and future development.
Reputation enhancement
Position your company at the intersection of applied AI, environmental leadership and enterprise innovation.
Who’s involved?
Led by climate, data science and sustainability research expertise
The AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox brings together specialist academic expertise, applied research capability and industry-focused delivery to help companies explore practical AI solutions for climate and sustainability challenges.
Sandbox Lead Instructor
Andrew Parnell
Deputy Director of the Co-Centre and Professor of Data Science for Weather and Climate at University College Dublin.
Data science expertise
Specialist focus on weather, climate and applied analytics.
Research-led delivery
Connecting enterprise challenges with academic and technical capability.
Research Partner Institutions
Delivered with a broad research network across climate, biodiversity, water, data science and sustainability.
AI Sandbox case studies
See how organisations are turning climate challenges into AI prototypes
Explore practical examples from the AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox, including how enterprise challenges were shaped, tested and developed into early-stage AI solutions.
2026 programme case study
Prototyping the Future: How Enterprise AI is Solving Real-World Climate and Operational Challenges
A practical look at how Galetech Group and Grant Thornton Ireland used the sandbox to move from operational climate challenges to early-stage AI prototypes and deployment roadmaps.
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2025 programme case study
Turning Climate and Sustainability Challenges into Rapid AI Prototypes
See how ODOS Tech and Zinto Labs used the sandbox to explore AI-led solutions for land-use mapping, agricultural sustainability analytics and marine preservation.
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Apply to take part
Built for organisations with a real challenge to solve
The AI & Climate Sustainability Sandbox is for companies ready to bring a defined sustainability, climate or operational problem into a structured AI sprint.
