To mark the 20th annual Science Week, which takes place from the 8th – 15th November, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D.

As part of EU Code Week in October Lero hosted two programming workshops in St. Mary's Secondary School, Corbally Limerick and in Presentation Convent Mitchelstown Cork. Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way.

Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre - has been elected President-Elect of IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing). Limerick-born Professor Hinchey will be the first Irishman to be elected President of the organisation since it was established under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960. 

Best paper awards have been presented to Dr Fergal McCaffery and Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon from Lero @ DkIT for papers presented at The First Int

Limerick headquartered Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, has helped Ireland win a prestigious international technology conference. Ireland beat off stiff competition to host the 37^th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will take place in the Convention Centre, Dublin in December 2016. An estimated 1,500 global delegates and their partners are expected to generate up to €2m to the local economy.