BiOrbic Welcomes Foróige to UCD
Young people are crucial to the continued development of the bioeconomy and we recognise they are an important stakeholder of our research. As part of a new partnership between BiOrbic and Foróige, Ireland’s leading youth organisation, BiOrbic staff welcomed four groups of young people to the centre. Participants travelled from Mahon, Glanmire, Beara and Nenagh…
Read MoreBack for the Future goes on tour!
This year, we took our online STEM escape room, Back for the Future, on tour around Ireland! As part of SFI Science Week and funded under its discover programme, 124 students and adults solved puzzles in an attempt to make Ireland sustainable and save the planet. Back for the Future is an escape room themed…
Read MoreTeam PhytoTowel come second at the Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe!
Huge congratulations to Team PhytoTowel for coming 2nd place in the Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISC-E)! The team representing BiOrbic and Ireland was made up of Laura Healy, Charlene Vance, Jia-Lynn Tham and Alice Hand. The BISC-E competition is run by the Biobased Industries Consortium with the aim to raise awareness and involve students…
Read MorePint of Science: Back to Nature
Should we avoid all plastic? And how do we get everyone on board with sustainability? These were some of the topics covered at BiOrbic’s first event in collaboration with Pint of Science! We heard about how we can capture CO2 to make ‘bioplastic’, as well as how we might convince the public to use more…
Read MoreSummer School on Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development 2022 – Early Registration Open!
Early registration is open for the 4th International Summer School on Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development which will be held next year at the Perrotis College in Thessaloniki, Greece from Monday 6th to Friday 10th of September 2022. The aim of the Summer School is to attract university students (late pre-graduate, master and PhD) to…
Read MoreBiOrbic’s Rubbish Ramble!
You’d be amazed to learn how much rubbish you can find if you just have a look around! That’s what two of BiOrbic’s researchers and some wonderful members of the public did on Saturday 23rd October as part of Bioeconomy Ireland Week. Two teams led by researchers Tanja Narancic and Burcu Akkoyunlu took to the…
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