UCC Research

IERC - International Energy Research Centre at Tyndall has installed a pioneering renewable energy system in a Cork City home, as part of the EU Horizon Europe-funded MiniStor project. Dr Carlos Ochoa, Senior Researcher IERC said: “The MiniStor device has the potential to provide homes in Ireland and Europe with another option, in addition to building fabric improvement, heat pumps and domestic solar panels, to achieve a future with clean and affordable energy for all.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/g-Bz4SVV #EnergyStorage #Tyndall #Sustainability Cork City Council - Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí Samaneh Fakouriyan Pádraig Lyons

📢 University College Cork's INFANT Research Centre forms part of the CanVas consortium which has recieved a €10.7M from the Disruptive Technology Innovation Fund (DTIF). Announced by Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless. The grant will help develop one of the first ever therapeutics for early brain injury by advancing CanVas-001 to clinic. CanVas is led by HAON Life Sciences, a leading cell therapy biotech in partnership with INFANT, UCC, NIBRT National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training and HiTech Health CanVas-001 is an allogeneic investigational product containing two placentally sourced cell types; ECFC (Endothelial Colony Forming Cells) and MSC (Mesenchymal Stromal Cells). CanVas-001 has demonstrated significant therapeutic benefit in large animal preclinical models of early brain injury. Professor Geraldine Boylan, Director of the INFANT Research Centre at UCC, said: “We are thrilled the CanVas project has received a DTIF grant to advance new class of cell therapy to clinic for early brain injury. This partnership between INFANT, HAON, NIBRT, HIH combines world-class research and industry expertise all working together to improve outcomes for neonates and their families. This funding by the Government is a very positive and welcome investment in children's health research.” 🗞️ Read all about it here: https://lnkd.in/e2YuSBFf Deirdre Murray | John Cryan | UCC Research | Enterprise Ireland | Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment | UCC Medicine and Health | Helen Whelton | John O'Halloran | Mark O’Neill FCA

Researchers at University College Cork are leading a national survey of Irish primary schools to evaluate how well schools make space for children to play. Dr Michelle Bergin from the School of Clinical Therapies (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy) is the lead researcher on the Research Ireland ‘Making Space for Play in Irish Schoolyards’ project. https://lnkd.in/eDfFPPKg UCC Medicine and Health | Margaret McGrath |

On Tuesday evening, we held our Scale and Grow SMEs event with Enterprise Ireland, as part of Innovation Week.   The event highlighted how to secure funding support for research collaborations and access top research talent at UCC.   Thank you to our speakers Christian Stafford and Brian Murphy from Enterprise Ireland, Raghuram Badmi from UCC Research, Chrys Ngwa (PhD) and Helmut Simonis from Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, and Rachel O'Leary and Sally Cudmore from UCC Innovation, who helped attendees explore a variety of programmes and funding opportunities that help to scale and grow companies through research and innovation.   #euinmyregion 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Many thanks to HERA- Humanities in the European Research Area and Research Ireland for supporting our 'Home in Crisis' project. It is already such a joy to be working with wonderful colleagues Miriam Cullen Dina Lupin & Hugo Reinert, and partners Empatheatre, Client Earth, Preparing Our Home & Cork Migrant Centre, to bring our plans to life.

Research Ireland has recently awarded a total of €414,844 to three research projects under the HERA- Humanities in the European Research Area initiative. The HERA ‘Crisis – Perspectives from the Humanities’ Call aims to set innovative research agendas that enhance the humanities’ contribution to addressing fundamental human and societal challenges within the European Research Area.  The successful Irish awardees on these European consortium projects are:   CHRYSES: Mapping Environmental Health Crises – Public Understanding through Myths and Science (Dr Jenny Butler, University College Cork): €164,878 CoastARTS: Coastlines as Zones of Ecocultural Crisis: Shaping Resilience through Transnational Performance-based Arts (Professor Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway): €158,796.10 Home in Crisis: Deconstructing ‘home’ in crisis – Understanding intersecting crises through the lens of ‘home’ (Dr Marie Aronsson-Storrier, University College Cork): €91,171 Read here: https://lnkd.in/exszNNn9 #ResearchIreland #IrishResearch #Humanities #HERA

🎉 We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Best Research Project in The Education Awards. 💜 The shortlisted research project is the Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy in Ireland (EDI-CPI) which is led by Prof. Brian Walsh at INFANT,UCC and funded by the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. EDI-CPI aims to reduce the age of a Cerebral Palsy(CP) diagnosis in High Risk newborns to <12 months. This collaborative project is currently ongoing across all the tertiary maternity hospitals in Ireland. Kudos to all those involved in EDI-CPI project. 👏 Winners will be announced early May - best wishes to our colleagues in University College Cork who have had 12 x entries shortlisted across 8 x categories. #EducationAwardsIrl UCC Research | Jean Conway | Geraldine Boylan | In4kids

Join us tomorrow for a session on "Demystifying IP: Identifying and Managing IP for Researchers" from 12-1pm. A key contributor to innovation is intellectual property management. This event will help researchers learn more about how to identify and manage their IP, the supports that UCC Innovation provides to researchers, and how to boost research impact. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eMAu_azT

An innovative project to approach climate change communication has received funding at University College Cork. Four towns across Ireland will be shortly chosen and hairdressers in each town will be provided with a suite of training materials about climate change and the role that local communities can play in addressing it. The training materials will be co-developed by UCC, The Environmental Forum (TEF) and hairdressers, based on the "Discourses of Climate Delay" research, which highlighted the pervasive and complex ways in which the need for climate action is downplayed. The project, 'A Brush with Climate', will utilise UCC’s expertise in climate change and communications and The Environmental Forum’s experience of local community climate action. Workshops with hairdressers will co-develop role play methodologies to assist in conversations on local climate mitigation and adaptation actions including the top six most impactful personal climate actions. The project is led by Dr Maria Kirrane from the Office of Sustainability and Climate Action working with the Research Ireland MaREI Centre at UCC and received €63,000 in funding under the Research Ireland Discover Programme, aimed to inspire broader public engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). https://lnkd.in/eu5xpgiw