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Interview: John Ashton, CBE, on climate change, politics and leadership News
18.06.2013 John Ashton, CBE, former special representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign Office, is in Dublin for the Climate Gathering. He spoke to Ann O’Dea about climate change,...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Government, Energy, Education -
Digital Hub CEO: digital competency needs to be pervasive across EU News
18.06.2013 Every country in Europe needs to ensure that digital competency is all-pervasive, the chief executive of the Digital Hub in Dublin told a gathering of the heads of eight...Categories: R&D, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Internet, Government, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Finland’s Digital Champion Linda Liukas in conversation with Silicon Republic at the IIEA (video) News
18.06.2013 Ahead of the Digital Agenda Assembly this week, the Institute of International and European Affairs hosted a public conversation with Finland’s Digital Champion and co-founder... -
Trinity College Dublin to offer free Open Online courses worldwide News
18.06.2013 Venerable university Trinity College Dublin is to offer free Open Online courses worldwide as part of a new global partnership with Futurelearn, which was founded by the Open... -
European nanotechnology forum opens in Dublin today News
18.06.2013 Europe’s largest nanotechnology event, the EuroNanoForum, is kicking off in Dublin today. For the next two days some 1,500 delegates from 50 countries will be convening at the... -
NASA selects eight new astronaut trainees News
17.06.2013 After a quest that has lasted more than a year, NASA has selected eight Americans from a pool of more than 6,000 candidates to take part in astronaut training at space centres... -
ESA’s Albert Einstein spacecraft connects with space station News
17.06.2013 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Albert Einstein spacecraft has successfully connected with the International Space Station (ISS) to supply provisions for the astronauts aboard... -
Career memes of the week: doctor News
18.06.2013 Daily apples, waiting times and bad handwriting feature in this week’s career memes that cheekily pay tribute to doctors. -
Clean, digital economy the focus of Dublin ‘gathering’ News
17.06.2013 It is gatherings galore in Dublin this week. As well as a meeting of Europe’s digital clusters in the Irish capital tomorrow, representatives from the IT, environmental and...Categories: Web, Sustainability, Software, Search Engines, Search, Science, Research, Networking, Internet, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Europe’s digital clusters to gather in Dublin this week News
17.06.2013 Eight digital clusters from around Europe, including Dublin’s Digital Hub, are to gather in the Digital Depot this Tuesday. The gathering precedes the European Digital Agenda... -
Aurion Learning now recruiting, plans to increase staff by 30pc News
14.06.2013 Belfast-headquartered Aurion Learning has started a recruitment drive to grow its team by 30pc over the next six months. -
CIT students scoop €10k in college entrepreneur awards News
13.06.2013 A team of students from Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has come away with a €10,000 prize and the accolade ‘College Entrepreneur of the Year’ after winning the top spot in... -
Software industry calls for overhaul of college access model News
13.06.2013 A group representing Ireland’s indigenous software sector has called for a shake-up of the college entry system so that the much-maligned points system is not the only way... -
CoderDojo named cream of the crop in Ben & Jerry’s social entrepreneur competition News
13.06.2013 Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield and a panel of leading business minds have named CoderDojo as winner of the Irish leg of the Join Our Core social entrepreneur...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Education, Economy -
TEDx event wraps up at UCD following talks on ‘foresight’ News
12.06.2013 University College Dublin (UCD) hosted its first-ever TEDx event today as 12 individuals connected with the college were asked to talk about the theme of foresight. -
Galway students to get a taste of aviation at Florida flight academy News
12.06.2013 Twelve students from Galway will have the chance to spend six days in Florida later this summer to carry out simulated aviation training at the National Flight Academy. The trip... -
Nanoweek expo to showcase nanoscience through art News
12.06.2013 With Ireland’s national awareness week around nanoscience and materials science kicking off this Friday, an art exhibition with a twist will be taking place at locations around... -
UCC researcher wins FameLab science competition News
12.06.2013 Fergus McAuliffe, a post-graduate researcher at University College Cork (UCC), has beaten off competition from 20 other finalists from across Europe, Asia and Africa to win the... -
The wizardry of Steve Wozniak - interview News
11.06.2013 While the public face of Apple for so many years had been represented by the charismatic Steve Jobs, for industry insiders the man who co-founded Apple in Jobs’ garage with... -
Creating cat memes is officially a paying job News
10.06.2013 A job posting online is seeking a fully qualified cat meme generator to work on a freelance basis in London for a fee of stg£200 to stg£300 per week.