Sofia Antonopoulou (ESR1) and Siyuan Chen (ESR14) supported the Communication Office of DG Research & Innovation at their Horizon 2020 stand in the EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) 2018 on Sunday 16 September session, held in RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. This is an event open to the public, which allowed the stand to be visited by [...]
TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers competition is the largest competition for Young Researchers in Europe for the transport industry and takes place every two years. The best final year and PhD students in Europe compete with each other. This year's winners were selected out of 169 young researchers from 56 different European universities that [...]
By the third consecutive year, TRUSS participated in Science Week Ireland. Again, TRUSS organised an outreach activity together with the UCD School of Civil Engineering and the Willow Park Junior School in Blackrock (Dublin) on the Monday 13th November 2017 from 9.30 am to 11.30 am. The activity targeted 112 nine-years old students in teams of four and five. First, John O'Sullivan (academic [...]
On Wednesday 8th November 2017, the Masters in Civil Engineering at Escuela Politecnica de Mieres (University of Oviedo, Spain), hosted a series of presentations, composed mostly of research projects by students in their last year, as requisite for their Master degree. The event, titled "I Jornadas de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion en Ingenieria Civil" (JIDIIC2017), was [...]
Daniel Martinez (ESR12) and Loreto Manriquez (TRUSS PM) participated in an outreach activity hosted by UCD Civil Engineering School at 10.30 am on the 27th July 2017. The activity is part of a series of interactive workshops within the UCD High School Summer Program, that was managed by the postdoc researcher Abdollah Malekjafarian, who has collaborated in [...]
University of Nottingham (UNOTT) held Open Days on Friday 30th June and Saturday 1st July 2017. This a University event attended by thousands of students and their parents around the Campus, when they can talk to subject tutors about specific courses, meet current students, find out about what they would like to study and see all accommodation and award-winning facilities. [...]
The open day at the doctoral school in UPC is an activity mainly attended by masters students where Antonio Barrias (ESR11) and JJ Moughty (ESR10) talked about their PhD program experience. The aim is to clarify the pros and cons of a PhD, and entice possible students who would like to follow this path after the [...]
The University of Nottingham's 2017 annual Engineering Research Showcase was held on Thursday 4 May in room A09 of the Engineering and Science Learning Centre (ESLC). A full day of events, starting from 10am, was attended by about 150 people, mostly students and staff at the Faculty of Engineering. It consisted of posters, workshops and a keynote [...]
Sofia Antonopoulou (ESR1), Giulia Milana (ESR6) and Loreto Manriquez (TRUSS project manager) joined Dr. Aoife Ahern (WP3 leader and UCD Head of Civil Engineering School) for an outreach activity in Mount Anville Montessori Junior School (Dublin, Ireland) on Monday 13rd February 2017 from 8.45 am to 9.30 am. Mount Anville is a Sacred Heart Montessori Junior School [...]
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) held an Open Day on Saturday, 10th December 2016, from 9 am to 3.30 pm. The Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering had a stand at this event, where TRUSS ITN was represented by the early stage researcher, Rui Teixeira, hosted by that same institution. Rui distributed TRUSS brochures to the attendants, explained the objectives of [...]
