BiOrbic’s Sustainability Cafes
BiOrbic has developed a new ‘sustainability cafe’ that can be taken into primary schools to inspire young children with ideas for how they can be sustainable. The cafe has five stations: Each station takes about 10 minutes to run the activity with 6 students. After each 10 minutes, the students rotate to the next station,…
Read MoreMuckross Park College Visits BiOrbic
On Tuesday over 170 female students visited BiOrbic to learn more about the bioeconomy. Spending the entire morning at UCD, 50 5th years and 120 second years were able to take a tour of the university, visit some of the BiOrbic labs and took part in a bioeconomy workshop. First the bioeconomy was introduced to…
Read MoreBiOrbic attend EARMA Conference
BiOrbic was represented at the recent EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators) conference which was held in Prague from April 24 – 26th, 2023. The conference explored key areas around widening and deepening the role of the RMA (Research Management and Administration) profession. Over 1,400 delegates were in attendance from across Europe with…
Read MoreGuide to Research Funding: From a SFI Centre Perspective
In 2021, the BiOrbic funding team joined forces with two other SFI Research Centres, I-Form and iCRAG, to develop a research funding training programme entitled, ‘Guide to Research Funding: From a SFI Centre Perspective’. This programme is a joint collaborative undertaking between BiOrbic, I-Form and iCRAG. All three centres have come together to develop a…
Read MoreTalent4BBI Winter School 2023
The first #Talent4BBI Winter School was a success! The complete ESR team finally met together for the first time after all relocations were finalised to their respective host institutions, with two days of workshops and talks about business cases in the bioeconomy presented by members of our institutional host, Biopolis S.L. (ADM), at the Parc Científic de la Universitat de…
Read MoreBiOrbic awarded SFI Discover Programme funding for “Generation Glas”
BiOrbic are delighted to have been awarded funding through the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme 2023. The SFI Discover Programme aims to empower diversity inclusion in STEM through public engagement projects across Ireland. The awardees of the funding are to use the funding to build connections with less-represented voices, or with those who would not…
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