Posts by Amanda Mathieson
Marine Bioeconomy Study Visit to Tromsø
In November, Cathy Keenan, BiOrbic’s Business Development and Commercialisation Officer travelled to Tromsø the main regional centre in Northern Norway as part of a cross-agency group from Ireland. The group included representatives from Údarás na Gaeltachta, Nua na Mara, Marine Institute, BIM, ATU Galway and BiOrbic. The main aim of the Study Visit was to…
Read MoreBack for the Future Tour 2022
The Back for the Future Escape Room Tour returned for 2022 and this time it was fully in-person! A team of two actors and two technicians took our climate change-themed escape room on the road for SFI Science Week. This year we hit Navan, Kilkenny, Portlaoise, Shannon, Blessington and Dundalk, taking the escape room to…
Read MoreBudding Scientists team up with BiOrbic for BT Young Scientist
Juliette, Aoife and Honor, three secondary school science students from Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin, were keen to understand more about plastics and biodegradable plastics. Led by Juliette, the three students approached BiOrbic in December 2021 to see if they could carry out some experiments at BiOrbic labs in UCD as part of…
Read MoreTalent4BBI Welcome Event
Last week, BiOrbic’s Talent4BBI hosted its first official in person event for the Marie Curie Early Stage Researchers in UCD last week. The ESRs took part in an immersive week of workshops and talks from BiOrbic researchers and staff, 7 of whom attended in person while 3 attended online from Ecuador, Colombia and India. The…
Read MoreNua na Mara and BiOrbic sign Memorandum of Understanding
BiOrbic, Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre and Nua na Mara, Marine Innovation Development Centre have signed an MOU to collaborate and lead the way for the development of Ireland’s blue bioeconomy. The objective for this MOU is for both parties to engage together to strengthen, promote and develop co-operation in research, development and innovation, commercialisation, education and training in the…
Read MoreBiOrbic at Munster Science Fair
Yesterday, BiOrbic researchers headed down to Mallow for Munster Science Fair! It was a hectic but fun day interacting with hundreds of families and discussing bio-based products. Upstairs, Hannah Gould gave a talk entitled ‘How will we live in 2050?’, exploring what the world would look like when our toilet paper comes from sour milk…
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