Stories

This is a repository of stories and images describing how people in Limerick have used the Citizen Innovation Lab to co-create a sustainable future for the city. It includes solutions explored through Open Innovation Calls and illustrates how people can use the Citizen Innovation Lab digital tools for collaboration.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) create a way to think about how we can live more sustainably now and in the future. Citizen Innovation Lab stories can be filtered by UN SDG.

We want this repository to grow over time. If you would like to take part, check out our events and news where you can find details of how to get involved.

Open Innovation Call 3

E-Cargo Bike Share Project

The E-cargo Bike Share Project began in late November with the delivery of our bike from the Dutch Bike Shop

Decarbonizing local Rowing Clubs

St Michaels Rowing Club and Shannon Rowing Club

Two local rowing clubs have come together to collaborate with the ambition to decarbonise club buildings and operations

Community Energy Sensors

Garryowen Residents Association

Funded through a +Cityxchange Open Innovation Call this project seeks to compare and contrast energy use of a variety of housing types in Garryowen.

First Steps to Saving Energy

Garryowen CDP

This project seeks to address the lack of information for communities regarding energy interventions and climate issues.

Solar Energy for St Johns Band

St Johns Brass and Reed Band

St Johns Brass and Reed Band has opened up its premises to use by the community of Garryowen.

Decarbonising Together

Limerick Civic Trust

Maeve Stone & Alex Gill

This project celebrates the potential for Limerick Civic Trust with Cracking Light to become a leader in seeding environmental system change workin...

Garryowen Community

Veronica Santorum & Daniel Clancy

Garryowen Community Development Project are excited to gather climate-related ideas and solutions by working with artists to have a "community conv...

Island Community Partners

Patrick Mulvihill of Amicitia & Heather Griffin

This project worked together with Nicholas St Youth Space to co-create an interactive, place-based, installation that sparked conversation and enco...

Meadowbrook Residents Association

Wrkshop Architects

Meadowbrook Residents Association brought members of their community together and started conversations about Decarbonisation to initiate some new ...

The Munster Indian Cultural Asso...

Chelsea Canavan & Deirdre Power

We are working towards building awareness and developing practical steps to enabling sustainable change in our every day, encouraging the community...

Positive Energy Champions

Low-carbon Transport in Limerick

Anne Cronin

I represent the Limerick Cycle Bus - a voluntary group of parents and children that cycle to and from school each day from the northside of the cit...

Low-carbon Transport in Limerick

Tom Spillane

I will be examining the current transport system that exists within Limerick, and trying to reduce the reliance of carbon heavy modes of transport ...

Understanding Energy Use

Andrew O'Connell

There is huge potential for St. Michael’s in harnessing the river to power our launches and the clubhouse in a clean and sustainable way.

Empowering Communities

Úna Walsh

My plan as a Positive Energy Champion is to help empower communities. I believe the only way we can achieve the aim to reduce our carbon footprint ...

Understanding Energy Use

David O'Connor

Over the next 20 weeks I plan to work with the +CityxChange team to incorporate their knowledge into the management of Council buildings by impleme...

Low-carbon Transport in Limerick

Cathie Chappell

I drive an electric car, but feel unable at present to make longer journeys due to the lack of charging points, I would like to monitor this, and h...

Empowering Communities

Bill Kelly

We aim to energise the citizenry of Limerick City to become actively involved in the energy transition.

Understanding Energy Use

Siobhán O'Reilly

We are working with +Cityxchange partners Integrated Environmental Solutions IES, using their modelling platform to get a better understanding of h...

Empowering Communities

Aoife McKeon

I am an Industrial Biochemist and my family own Abbey River Coffee in Limerick City. We have worked on environmental initiatives and hope to spread...

Open Innovation Call 2

Petrol2PV

St Michael's Rowing Club

SMRC would like to install PV Panels on the roof along with some lithium Iron batteries. The energy will be used for electrical consumption but als...

Georgian HeatXchange

Gráinne McInerney

To recover waste heat from the café restaurant on the ground floor for use in the café and the apartments above.

Greening The Smart Grid

The Urban Co-Op

Solar-assisted Alotments in Canon Ui Brien Park. To energise the citizenry of Limerick City to become actively involved in the energy transition an...

Solar Carport

Metaltech Ltd

To install a solar charged carport to generate clean, renewable energy. This energy can then be used to charge electric vehicles parked inside whil...

Open Innovation Call 1

Green Urban Museum 2

Limerick Mental Health Association

Using images from the Hunt Museum Collection and the Limerick City Museum, Makers from LMHA Women's and Community Groups will hold workshops with a...

Green Urban Museum 1

The Hunt Museum

The Green Urban Museum proposes the creation of a wider network of public spaces in the heart of Georgian Limerick, including laneways, public squa...

Incredible Edibles

limerick City Tidy Towns

An incredible edible garden on a Limerick; A lane, where the public could pick and enjoy the produce; A sustainable garden maintained by volunteers...

StreetSeek AI

Deepseek AI

This new understanding of our city will provide key insights to a number of stakeholders including city planners, businesses and positive change fo...

Wall of Belonging

LiveableLimerick

This project aims to transform a largely forgotten laneway into an Art Gallery with an InstaWall similar to that in Paris (Wings of Europe Mural) a...