An €120,000 cross-border research partnership project examining the participation of 11,000 third-level students across Ireland in sport and physical activity is being led by a consortium, with Waterford Institute of
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Work being undertaken at NUI Galway has great potential for clean-energy production, a leading expert in bioenergy and biorefining has told a bioenergy conference in Dublin. The expert in question

Soapbox Science is coming to Dublin. Event organiser Dr Natalie Cooper talked to Claire O’Connell. In April, Front Square at Trinity College Dublin is due to play host to a

HEAnet, Ireland’s National Education and Research Network, has been enhanced with a new national all-optical transmission network installed and commissioned by Coriant, a global supplier of optical transport solutions. The

The Irish Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Minister, Richard Bruton TD and the Employment and Learning Minister for Northern Ireland, Dr Stephen Farry MLA, have signed a ground-breaking Collaboration

NUI Galway and Intel have signed an agreement to jointly conduct research on many core technologies in High Performance Computing (HPC) and big data analytics. The research will be carried

The National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Dublin has exceeded targets by raising €40m in commercial follow-on investment for Irish digital start-ups, the centre announced today. With a combined market

President of Letterkenny Institute of Technology Paul Hannigan is the new chairperson of Institutes of Technology Ireland for 2014. A native of Donegal, he has served as president of Letterkenny

The Chinese government is investing €300m to establish a new international university campus of UCD in the coastal city of Yantai in the province of Shandong. It is hoped that

University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out Logentries has received the NovaUCD 2013 Innovation Award in recognition of its global success and impact. Accepting the award, one of the co-founders revealed new

Horizon 2020, the EU’s big R&D funding programme, will offer major opportunities to Irish researchers There is real value in participating as an “expert” for the European Commission. For emerging

The European Investment Bank is providing a loan of €100 million to fund the University of Limerick’s four-year capital development plan. The €224 million plan, which runs from 2014 to