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Coup for Lero as it attracts world leading game developer

Professor Mike Hinchey, director, Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, welcomes Brenda Romero to the organisation. Photo Sean Curtin Brenda Romero to develop Master’s in Games Design at Limerick and support Ireland’s games industry Internationally renowned game designer Brenda Romero has be Read more..
Second day Of Teacher CPD for Junior Cycle short Course takes place in Intel Leixlip

Pictured at a Coding exploration day at the Intel Ireland Campus in Leixlip for the first group of 50 teachers who will teach the subject at Junior Cycle level See more information here.
University research not just for multinationals but SMEs and startups as well

Europe Startup Week event hears that funding should not put off SMEs accessing world class research Small firms and startups should not be put off accessing research through universities due to financial barriers. This was stated today (Monday) by Joe Gibbs, business commerci Read more..
Intel and Lero support Junior Cycle students in ‘Exploring Coding’

The introduction of computer coding courses for secondary schools has received a boost following the announcement of a collaborative initiative between Intel Ireland, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre – and Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) which was launched last week in the University of Lim Read more..
Evolving Critical Systems

Prof Mike Hinchey gave a Distinguished Lecture at INESC-ID, University of Lisbon in December. The INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to bring to the institute outstanding scientists, academics or practitioners to share their vision, and present their groundbreaking work. The series a Read more..
Award by the Association of Information Systems for Prof Brian Fitzgerald

Brian Fitzgerald has been awarded the inaugural Sandra Slaughter Award by the Association of Information Systems (AIS). This award recognizes long standing members who have provided leadership within the Association, particularly through such activities as participating in the SIGs/chapters/college Read more..
Minister O’Sullivan launches expanded national Science Foundation Ireland software research centre in €46.4m investment

90 software PhDs and 46 postdoctoral researchers to be developed at Lero over next six years Boosts infrastructure for FDI and indigenous tech firms Ireland “can be global centre for software research” Ms Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister for Education and Skills, today forma Read more..
Lero Technology Workshops

Lero members Fayola Peters, Solomon Gizaw, Anila Mjeda, Frederik Gossen and Clare McInerney ran Technology Workshops on Monday and Wednesday November 9th and 11th for Science Week. The visiting primary school children played with Lego WeDo, Lego Mindstorms, NAO Robot, Scratch, LightBot and 3D visual Read more..
Blockchain Hackathon

Quentin and Takfarinas won the third prize at the biggest Blockchain Hackathon (https://blockchain-hackathon.com/) in Europe which happened in Dublin between the 6th and 8th November with a project called "Open Charity", a safe, decentralized system allowing to issue IOUs ("I Owe You" tokens) f Read more..
Showcase of Irish Science and Technology

To mark the 20th annual Science Week, which takes place from the 8th – 15th November, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. attended a showcase of Irish science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at Government Buildings on Thursday Nov 5th. The event provided an insight into the inspirational and i Read more..