Conducting Credible Societal Impact Research: Investigating the Irish IT Gender Equality Gap

This event will be delivered by Eileen M Trauth, Professor Emeritus Information Sciences & Technology Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and Regina Connolly, Professor Information Systems, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland and Lero FI This presentation describes our research paper “Investigating the Nature of Change in Factors Affecting...

Wanted: a maps app that works inside a building

Opinion:such an innovation could hugely improve the provision of emergency medical and fire services in public buildings First published in RTÉ Brainstorm, on Thursday, 19 January, 2023. Most of us are familiar with Google Maps and have used it many times to find our way around the city or country. In fact, this app takes...

Minister Martin Heydon launches €7m Sustainable Digital and Data Research Programmes

Lero and Adapt researchers at the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at Maynooth University will lead two sustainable digital and data research programmes launched by Minister Martin Heydon. The €7 million Digi+ and ENTRUST programmes, will focus on sustainable digital transformation and data and are funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklowdowska-Curie programme. Digi+...

Irish tech firm secures exclusive access to IP from Lero and DCU project

Pioneering software companyfourTheorem has secured exclusive access to intellectual property rights – focusing on the application of AI in software architectural transformation – developed by Dublin City University and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. The deal enables fourTheorem ​​to commercialise all Future Software Systems Architectures (FSSA) project output. The programme ‘Fission’...

Lero wins Young European Research Universities Open Science Award

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has been awarded 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 at an...

Lero announces new €2.9m postdoctoral fellowships programme

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is to invest €2.9 million, creating 16 postdoctoral fellowships. The programme will develop world-class software expertise to facilitate responsible innovation focusing on privacy, trust, inclusion and fairness. Lero director Professor Brian Fitzgerald of University of Limerick is coordinating the SyMeCo (Systems, Methods, Context) research training programme....

ICSE to bring 1,500 delegates to Ireland

The world’s premier software engineering conference, ICSE, is coming to Dublin in 2027, it has been announced. Approximately 1,500 delegates are expected to attend, resulting in a projected boost to the economy of more than €2 million. Professor Brian Fitzgerald, the director of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, said this is...

Cyber Skills Ireland launches CheckMyLink service for safer online shopping

Recent consumer research* shows that nearly 40 percent of Irish shoppers plan on doing a mix of in-store and online shopping this year. As we approach the festive season and ever more people are shopping online for gifts, Cyber Skills is launching a new national online service to help shoppers check if sites are legitimate...

16 students receive Johnson & Johnson’s WISTEM2D Awards in partnership with Lero

Johnson & Johnson announced today its prestigious Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Undergraduate Award recipients from the University of Limerick, in partnership with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, headquartered at the University of Limerick, marking the seventh year since the awards inception. The Award recognises outstanding female students in STEM2D disciplines: Science,...

2023 Scratch Competition now open

Schools from all over Ireland are invited to register and take part in the 2023 Scratch Competition. Scratch is a visual programming language that makes it easy for young people to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music and art – and share their creations on the web. Scratch is developed by the MIT Media...