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...

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...