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Posters in research exhibition at Earth Institute

TRUSS fellows attended and presented posters from their projects in the exhibition organised by the UCD Earth Institute on the Wednesday 30th September 2015, to showcase the quality and breadth of research being undertaken within the Institute. Research posters and exhibits took place in the atrium of the 4th floor in the O'Brien Center for Science (Dublin, Ireland). In the photos, Sofia Antonopoulou [...]

TRUSS in 27th EAIE conference

Dr. Jennifer Brennan from Irish Universities Association, Ireland and Przemyslaw Jankowski, from the European Commission, Belgium were the two speakers at the Workshop 14 – “EU funding for innovative doctoral training cooperation”, that took place as part of the 27th Annual EAIE (European Association for International Education) Conference. The latter is Europe's largest international higher [...]

Article about TRUSS reaching 24,000 engineers in Ireland

The objectives of TRUSS have been published in the Website (www.engineersireland.ie), Newsletter and Journal of Engineers Ireland in the issue of the 14th July 2015. The three of them are estimated to reach 24,000 members from every discipline of engineering throughout the island. Engineers Ireland was established in 1835 as the professional body for engineers in Ireland, being [...]

Participation in ‘Future of the Doctorate’ conference

Dr. Aoife Ahern (WP3 leader) and Prof. Joan Ramon Casas (WP2 leader) from TRUSS attended "The Future of the Doctorate" conference in Riga on the 28th -29th May 2015 organized by the European Commission. The conference addressed the changing nature of doctoral studies in Europe and further afield and considered how doctoral students might be [...]

MSCA ITN 2014 – Info Day ‘A focus on implementation’

The project coordinator of TRUSS, Dr. Arturo González, attended the first H2020 ITN Coordinators’ Info day that took place on Thursday 30th April (08h30 - 17h30) organised by the MSCA ITN team of the REA in Brussels. The meeting was focused on specific ITN implementation matters and addressed to all Coordinators of H2020 MSCA ITN [...]

Outreach at Saint Joseph’s College, Garbally Park

Pictured is Professor Eugene OBrien of University College Dublin (centre) with Careers Guidance Councillor Roisin McSharry and Engineering teacher Paul Walsh.  Thursday 12th March, 2015. The talk was attended by a class of about 30 boys – approximately 18 years old – in the final year of 2nd level school at Saint Joseph’s College (Garbally Park, Ballinasloe, [...]

Favourable Evaluation of TRUSS proposal by the REA

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) proposal TRUSS was favourably evaluated by the Research Executive Agency and invited to grant preparation in September 2014. The ITN call is composed of three topics: European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID), and European Joint Doctorates (EJD), with EID and EJD being ranked in separate [...]