CCAE micro-credentials 2026-27

Delivery schedule for three Level 9 micro-credentials at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, University College Cork. Each carries 5 ECTS over 12 weeks. The schedule is built around people in full-time work and learners studying remotely: every session can be joined online live or watched on demand, so you choose the level of live participation that fits your week.

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An introduction to the CCAE micro-credentials

Eight and a half minutes covering what a Level 9, 5 ECTS micro-credential involves and how AT6012 and AT6031 run through the week. It closes on the two routes to apply.

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AT6012

Design Research: Technology Transformations

Starts
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Live sessions
Wednesdays 10:00 to 13:00, ends 9 December 2026
Delivery
12 three-hour lectures, live online, with 89 hours of asynchronous activity. Guest speakers join during the live slot and in the shared lunchtime series.
NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksOnline

Brief and twelve-week programme · Module page on ucc.ie

AT6020

Research Methods II: Digital Storytelling and Immersive Fictions

Starts
Friday 23 October 2026
Live sessions
Mondays 14:00 to 17:00, twelve workshops, 26 October to 1 February 2027. No sessions over the Christmas break.
Friday sessions
From Friday 23 October 2026The module commences on this Friday. The rest of the Friday pattern is being confirmed.
Delivery
12 three-hour workshops (laboratory sessions), delivered remotely, plus 4 one-hour lectures hosted in the shared lunchtime series and 100 hours of independent enquiry.
NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksRemote

Module page on ucc.ie

AT6031

Reviving Buildings: Methods and Praxis for Adaptive Reuse and Resilient Retrofit

Starts
Wednesday 25 November 2026
Live sessions
Wednesdays 13:00 to 14:00, eight sessions, 25 November to 3 February 2027
Module runs
12 teaching weeks, to 3 March 2027
Delivery
8 one-hour lunchtime lectures in the shared Wednesday hour, with 11 two-hour seminars/webinars released as evening on-demand recordings and 90 hours of asynchronous activity.
NFQ Level 95 ECTS12 weeksBlended

Module page on ucc.ie

The week at a glance

The recurring pattern when all three modules run together (late November to early December 2026)

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
10:00 to 13:00
AT6012 lecture, live onlineweekly three-hour session with guest speakers
13:00 to 14:00
AT6031 live session, in the shared lunchtime hourThis hour is AT6031's own weekly live slot, and it is open to AT6012 and AT6020 learners too. Guest speakers are hosted here.
14:00 to 17:00
AT6020 workshop (laboratory session)three hours, online
AT6020 Friday sessiontime to be confirmed
Evening
AT6031 seminars/webinars released as evening on-demand recordings. Recordings of every live session across the three modules stay available throughout.
The lunchtime hour on Wednesdays is shared. Learners on any of the three modules can attend, and the four AT6020 lectures are hosted here. AT6020 also meets on Fridays and commences on Friday 23 October 2026; that pattern is being confirmed and this page is updated when it is.

Term timeline

September 2026 to March 2027, one column per week. Click any week for the detail.

AT6012, Wed 10:00 to 13:00 AT6020, Mon 14:00 to 17:00 AT6031, Wed 13:00 to 14:00 Field trip, no classes Commences, pattern to be confirmed Christmas break
Click a week above to see its sessions.

The working resources

What the modules actually run on. Everything here is live, and AT6012 works on these surfaces and writes back into them.

ENGAGE

The platform, and the spine

Instruments

Tools, games and data

Courses

Alongside this one

  • Solving for Zero, the participatory action research MOOC for community-led climate research
  • The field-trip atlas, emergy multi-model scenario planning. Currently built on Marseille and being rebuilt on Rome
  • ENGAGE, the wider community-engaged research platform

Designed for working people

These schedules were planned around the working week. Live sessions sit at lunchtime or in a single weekly block, so a learner in full-time practice can join from the office or site, and a remote learner can join from anywhere. Live attendance is encouraged and never required: every lecture, workshop (laboratory session), and guest talk is recorded, and recordings stay available for the full run of each module. Learners working around jobs or caring commitments can complete any of the three courses entirely from the recordings and asynchronous material, or mix live and on-demand participation week by week.

Guest speaker dates for the shared lunchtime series will be announced at the start of each term.