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...

Fitting Advanced Driving Assistance Systems to all cars could prevent 24% of British road crashes

Installing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) on all cars in Great Britain could reduce car crashes by 24%, researchers in Ireland and Luxembourg have found. The researchers from Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland and Motion-S, Luxembourg, also found Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is the most impactful...

Science Week in Lero

Lero researchers at UL are running web development workshops during Science Week. The researchers will introduce and explain HTML/CSS over a series of two workshops. Workshop 1 will introduce basic HTML concepts for students with no prior experience of HTML, Workshop 2 will build on workshop 1 and introduce CSS. These hands-on workshops are designed...

Creative Coding Workshops

A series of Creative Coding workshops for teachers to support Coding in Junior Cycle kicks off with Workshop 1 – HTML/CSS on Tuesday November 8th 2022. During this workshop teachers will develop a HTML/CSS ePortfolio to showcase their coding creations. Design and create a website using HTML and CSS.   Workshop 2 – Scratch takes...

US and Ireland cybersecurity researchers partner to improve global cyber resilience

Leading cybersecurity researchers from the United States, Ireland and Northern Ireland are partnering to identify and solve urgent, global cybersecurity challenges. The alliance between researchers from Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software headquartered at University of Limerick, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and Queen’s University Belfast aims to ensure that advances in cybersecurity...

Lero launches charter to make research freely available to all

Lero has launched its Open Science Charter which promotes making research openly available to all. The new charter will lead to increased visibility for researchers, greater opportunities for collaboration, and greater transparency in the research process. At the launch in University of Limerick, Director of Lero, Professor Brian Fitzgerald said, “Lero is committed to Ireland’s...

Lero partners with Abbey Machinery to develop autonomous farm equipment

The technological advancement of Irish-made autonomous farm machinery is being enhanced by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Abbey Machinery, under a new research partnership agreement. Lero researcher, professor Joseph Walsh, based at the Munster Technological University’s Kerry campus, is leading the partnership with Abbey Machinery. Prof. Walsh points...

Top software engineering researchers gather in Limerick for the World of Code Hackathon challenge

Some of the world’s top software engineering researchers arrived in Limerick for the World of Code Hackathon at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. According to Lero Director Prof Brian Fitzgerald: “The World of Code is the most significant software codebase globally with contributions from more than 50 million developers. Lero is...