Minister launches €2.9m privacy, trust, inclusion and fairness fellowship programme

Minister of State at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Niall Collins TD today formally launched the search for 16 world-class researchers to take up postdoctoral fellowships at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Minister Collins said the €2.9 million investment in the SyMeCo (Systems, Methods, Context)...

SyMeCo COFUND Launch

10 .30 -11.00 Refreshments and Networking Tierney Building Ground Floor 11.00-11:15 Photos           Tierney Building Ground Floor         11.15-11.45 Welcome Prof Brian Fitzgerald, Lero Centre Director   Opening address Professor Norelee Kennedy, Vice President for Research, University of Limerick Dr Kevin Walsh, Head of SFI Research Centre Programme...

Lero researcher among SFI Frontiers for the Future grant recipients

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, has announced 62 grants valued at €42 million to support research across 13 higher education institutions through Science Foundation Ireland’s Frontiers for the Future Programme. Among the recipients is Lero’s Professor Gabriel-Miro Muntean, from the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City...

Clare student takes top prize at 13th National Scratch Coding Competition

A County Clare student was named overall winner of the 13th annual National Scratch Coding Competition, organised by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and the Irish Computer Society. The national finals brought together top-scoring teams from schools and clubs across the country with participants, aged six years and older, demonstrating their...

Event : Lero/FMCI workshop

Lero in conjunction with FMCI will be hosting a joint workshop on May 24th to explore the routes to funding research in connected autonomous vehicles and battery technologies in Ireland. The workshop will be held at the Future Mobility Campus (Bay 80, Shannon free Zone, Shannon, Co Clare. V14 WV82). The workshop will feature keynote...

Event : Code Plus Inspiring a new generation of women in Computer Science

Minister for Education launches four-year research partnership between Lero, MTU and Liebherr

Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, launched a substantial four-year research partnership between Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd, Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Munster Technological University (MTU). The project will develop and expand Liebherr’s existing systems for ‘smart cranes’ which help to safely and efficiently move millions of shipping containers around...

New business development manager named at Lero

Lero has appointed Padraig Costello as its new business development manager. Padraig, a graduate of University College Dublin (UCD) and Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), brings with him a wide array of skills garnered over a 20-year business development career in the automotive, banking and general finance sectors. “Lero is one of the top...

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...