The HEA Education for Sustainable Development Spotlight Series 2025: Case Studies Compendium brings together 115 case studies from higher education institutions across Ireland. It showcases how universities and colleges are integrating sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals into teaching, research, curriculum design, assessment practices and community engagement. It offers a comprehensive picture of national ESD activity and provides an accessible resource for educators and policymakers seeking examples of practice-based innovation.

This compendium provides practical insights into how education for sustainability is being implemented across diverse disciplines and institutional contexts. Readers can identify approaches that relate with their own institutional needs and consider how the underlying context, challenges encountered, enabling factors and resulting outcomes might be translated or adapted to suit their own settings. Engaging with the compendium can support curriculum development, staff collaboration and institutional strategic planning by grounding discussions in concrete examples of what has already been shown to work. It is also effective used as a reflective and exploratory tool, for example, as a catalyst for conversations within programme teams, as inspiration for new sustainability initiatives, or as a reference point for aligning teaching and learning with national ESD priorities.