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EU Climate-Smart Rewilding Project Planned for Galway

By Ryan Harmon 20 April 2023

A new project funded by Horizon Europe called wildE has been launched to develop climate-smart rewilding as a nature-based solution to the twin threats of climate change and biodiversity loss in eight sites across Europe. The Irish rewilding initiative will take place on lands in Galway including Ireland’s largest wind farm, the Galway Wind Park […]

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Lero Wins Young European Research Universities Open Science Award

By Ryan Harmon 24 February 2023

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has won an award for a European prize recognising its commitment to open science principles. The centre launched its Open Science Charter and an Open Source and Open Science Programme Office last October. The Young European Research Universities Open Science Awards were announced on February 14 […]

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New €2.9m Fellowship Training to Develop World-Class Software Expertise

By Ryan Harmon 31 January 2023

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre for Software, is to invest €2.9 million in a new fellowship training programme to develop world-class software expertise, creating 16 postdoctoral fellowships. The programme will focuse on privacy, trust, inclusion and fairness. Lero director Professor Brian Fitzgerald of University of Limerick is coordinating the

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33 Research Infrastructure Projects Bag €53m in SFI Funding

By Ryan Harmon 20 January 2023

A new wave of funding has been announced to support 33 high-impact research infrastructure projects across Ireland. These endeavours will receive a total investment of €53.3m through the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Infrastructure Fund. The funding was announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD.

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Cork’s Carnival of Science returns for 2022

By Ryan Harmon 11 May 2022

Cork’s Fitzgerald Park will be transformed into an unmissable Big Top science extravaganza on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June 2022 as Cork’s Carnival of Science makes a highly anticipated return. A carnival atmosphere will descend on Leeside as young and old are invited to explore, investigate, experiment, and discover the wonders of science, with […]