Tagged: Universities
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SMI encourages Irish innovators to access Washington dollars News
26.03.2013 Amongst all the Irish-American meetings and engagements in Washington, DC, recently, consulting firm Strategic Marketing Innovations Inc (SMI) officially announced it would open... -
Ireland’s Student Assistance Fund receives extra €3m News
09.01.2013 Third-level students who are thinking about dropping out of college because they can’t afford tuition may receive some relief in the form of an extra €3m that Ireland’s Minister... -
BioInnovate programme cultivates med-tech innovation in Ireland News
10.09.2012 The BioInnovate Ireland programme is looking to train the next generation of innovators in medical technology. So what’s it all about, and how is it progressing so far? -
Irish universities jointly honour philanthropist Chuck Feeney News
06.09.2012 The universities on the island of Ireland today came together to jointly confer an honorary doctorate of laws (LLD) on the philanthropist Chuck Feeney for his contribution to... -
Recruiting more international students could support colleges and create jobs – report News
27.08.2012 A new report from the Ahain Group, a team of digital professionals with particular experience in social business, notes that international students could boost Irish colleges’... -
Universities to propose radical shake-up of college points system News
21.08.2012 Several universities are expected to submit proposals to Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today about a new structure for selecting students for third level places that may... -
TCD introduces student loan initiative to help more students access third-level education News
09.07.2012 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has introduced TCD Finance, a student loan initiative for current and new undergraduate students that will help spread the cost of Student...Categories: Education -
DCU to host free event Collaborate to Innovate, covering R&D and tech transfer News
15.06.2012 Dublin City University's (DCU) innovation and enterprise centre Invent is holding a free event called Collaborate to Innovate next Thursday at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin....Categories: Software Development, Science, R&D, Online Business, Networking & Telecoms, Networking, Multimedia, Marketing, Management, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, IT Organisation, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Funding, Engineering, Education, Economy, CIO, Application Design and Development -
Skibbereen to the world: Lord Puttnam lectures to go global News
08.06.2012 In what he describes as ‘conceptually relaunching the potential of what videoconferencing is’ Oscar and BAFTA award-winning director Lord David Puttnam is to deliver lectures to... -
Ireland leads the world for availability of skilled labour News
31.05.2012 Ireland has topped the world in a number of key competitiveness milestones, according to top-ranked Switzerland-based business school IMD, including availability of skilled... -
Science Council urges Govt to seize €80bn innovation opportunity News
29.03.2012 The Advisory Council for Science Technology and Innovation (ACSTI) has today called on the Irish Government to come up with a strategic and focused approach to secure a... -
Ireland’s €6.5m boost for applied research News
23.02.2012 The Irish Government is to inject more than €6.5m in funding into 58 research awards, as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s Technology Innovation Development Award programme....Categories: Government, Funding, Engineer, Energy, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Graduate, Green, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, R&D, Research, Science, Sustainability -
NUI Maynooth wins highly sought €2.5m software masters deal News
22.12.2011 The European Union has chosen NUI Maynooth as the lead university for a prestigious Erasmus Mundus double masters in dependable software systems (DESEM), worth €2.5m. -
‘Science is our oil’, SFI chief says News
21.12.2011 For all that has gone wrong in the Irish economy in recent years, science is going to be the one shining light to help put Ireland back on the global stage for its inventiveness...Categories: Green Tech, Economy, Education, Energy, Engineer, Global CIO, Government, Graduate, Green, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, Jobs, Life Sciences, Private Irish Business, R&D, Research, Science, Web 2.0 -
Facebook launches suicide prevention tool for concerned friends News
14.12.2011 Following its launch of a suicide prevention tool for Facebook users in Ireland and the UK earlier this year, Facebook has now created a similar suicide prevention tool for... -
SolarPrint and Tyndall in €25.7m European solar project News
08.12.2011 Irish solar cell start-up SolarPrint and Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute are just two of the industry and university partners from across the EU that are participating in a...Categories: Engineer, Energy, Green Tech, CIO, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Green, Intellectual Property, Investments, R&D, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
Science research in Ireland: the present and the future News
11.11.2011 Elena Irina Pascu takes a look at the scientific landscape in Ireland as it corresponds to the various universities across the land, underpinned by significant State investment... -
Deals done this past week News
26.09.2011 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish and global technology sector. -
CampusIT serves 400,000 students in the cloud News
06.09.2011 Irish education management systems provider CampusIT is now serving the needs of more than 400,000 higher education students around Europe on its cloud computing model. -
Two €5m tech centres launched to turn ideas into jobs News
20.05.2011 Two R&D industry-led technology centres have been launched with the objective of turning good R&D ideas into good jobs as part of the Government’s €55m investment in...