BT has again created a €75,000 accommodation grant to help regional schools around Ireland to compete in the 2015 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Since introducing the scheme in
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Waterford Institute of Technology is to lead a €2.8m digital research project to boost regional economic development in Ireland’s south-east through job creation, start-ups and commercialisation of research. Waterford Institute
The University of Ulster has launched a new stg£240,000 seed fund designed to stimulate growth and enhance competitiveness within the digital content sector. The Honeypot seed fund is part of the
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is recruiting 17 PhD scholars across a range of disciplines as part of its prioritisation of research growth at the institute. The 36-month scholarships, in
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has delivered what it says it the largest govt/industry collaboration yet – seven research centres in areas like big data amounting to an investment of €300m
Irish biotech start-up Inform Bioscience has signed a licence agreement with the Mayo Clinic in the US to acquire biomarkers for developing a prognostic test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy.
The new stg£6.8m Advanced Engineering Competence Centre in Belfast will focus on developing innovative solutions in the advanced engineering sector and aim to transform research into commercial success. Based at
Investment firms backed by Enterprise Ireland invested €5m more last year than in 2012, according to the semi-State agency. Firms using its Seed and Venture Capital Programmes invested €59m in
Ireland’s vibrant and growing software industry risks losing thousands of new jobs to other countries because of the shortage of suitable skills here. That is according to a study carried
Forty scientific projects ranging from microbiology to clean energies are to benefit from €23m in research funding, the result of a deal between Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Irish
Three researchers from the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have jointly been awarded €1.2m by Enterprise Ireland (EI) as part of its Commercialisation Fund to help them make their ideas
The Royal Society in the UK and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have signed an agreement whereby Ireland’s leading young scientists will be awarded a prestigious research fellowship by the Royal
The President of the European Research Council has said Irish scientists are not winning as much research funding from it as they should. Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum in
Chinese smartphone and telecoms equipment giant Huawei said its total R&D investment in Ireland will expand in the coming years and this year it will be US$6m. Huawei has three
Almost 400 new jobs are to be created across three counties by two multinational technology companies. SAP is increasing the numbers it employs in Galway and Dublin by 260, while
A venture capital company is to establish a fund of $172m (€125m) that will invest in Irish companies. The Government is to inject €30m into the fund, which will invest
More than 60 high-end science and technology research jobs, as well as 55 construction jobs, will be created at the new 20,000 sq-foot Science Park building at Letterkenny Institute of
Pfizer has opened a new $30 million unit at its Ringaskiddy facility. The New Product Technology Laboratory will allow the Cork plant to begin making drugs from the company’s R&D pipeline for
More than 200 scientists in Ireland are to receive a total of almost €50 million in funding for new research projects over the next five years. The money is coming
Clare-based food diagnostics firm AltraTech has secured significant financial backing after developing a single-use test kit that can identify the DNA content of a food sample in a matter of
Monday 7th April: The Irish Cancer Society and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have today announced a partnership that aims to support the establishment of a new Collaborative Cancer Research
UCD and Trinity College based researchers receive €3.2million funding from Science Foundation Ireland. 27th March 2014: President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, has today received three recipients of the Science Foundation
From today, some 50 companies and 6,000 workers at the East Point Business Park in Dublin will have access to a free outdoor public Wi-Fi network. The new Wi-Fi service
The UK prime minister David Cameron has announced additional funding of stg£45m for research into the ‘internet of things’ (IoT),
A new research centre for the development of new plastic technologies with far-reaching applications across multiple sectors has opened at
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today announced that innovative technology company, VCE, plans to create up
Clinical research group Venn Life Sciences has moved to address an EU ban on cosmetic and skincare products tested on
The Irish Government’s Office of the CIO has signed a €3.3m memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to handle security
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has said he will give US$1m to individuals or organisations in the technology sector who can
The trend of hi-tech start-ups locating their headquarters in Ireland shows no sign of slowing down with five North American
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has opened a call for female scientist applications to the Advance Award programme, which has a
Irish venture capital fund Tribal.vc has opened a new co-location hub for high- growth start-ups, on Dublin’s South William Street.
Voicekey Limited has recently been awarded the Second Phase of a SBRI mCommerce contract by the UK’s innovation agency, the
Ireland has performed very well in the latest competition of the European Research Council (ERC) for its top-up funding ‘Proof
‘Blue sky’ basic science is focused on advancing knowledge, but it can sometimes generate unexpected applications. That is why the
CONSENSUS, a research project on sustainable consumption involving NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin researchers, has successfully been awarded an
Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, TD, says he is looking into the possibility of the country joining
A new €30 million Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC), led by Tyndall National Institute in collaboration with University College Cork
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Government has launched a new photonic integration centre which will look to harness the
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 312 top scientists in its first Consolidator Grant competition. This new funding will
Marie-Louise Coolahan from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Martin Albrecht from University College Dublin are amongst the top
As part of Ireland’s New Year tech resolution, the Irish Research Council (IRC) will be making €16m available in funding
Biosciences startup Metabolomic Diagnostic has secured €750,000 in venture funding through a syndicate of investors including SOSventures Ireland Fund, AIB
Limerick is to receive 300 highly skilled jobs by 2016 after biopharma giant Regeneron Pharmaceuticals this morning revealed a US$300m
Horizon 2020, the European Union’s new €79 billion programme for research and innovation to create new growth and jobs in
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has today welcomed the announcement by the European Commission that it has allocated €1.7 billion in
Horizon 2020, the EU’s big R&D funding programme, will offer major opportunities to Irish researchers There is real value in
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