Renaissance Academy launches a 'gym for the mature mind'

Filling a niche for the over-50s seeking continued education and social engagement in a post-Covid environment

Mark Conway, Renaissance Academy. Older people. Lifelong learning. Continued education

Renaissance Academy has launched into the Irish market as a ‘gym for the mature mind’. Aiming to promote lifelong learning among those who are seeking to take up new skills and meet like-minded individuals, the facility based at Leopardstown, Co Dublin, provides over 28 in-person courses with an emphasis on social engagement to later-in-life audiences.

The courses hosted by the academy include technology, architecture, gardening, design, photography, philosophy, entrepreneurship and politics.