Innovation - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Trinity-led SHAPE-ID project at the forefront of new LERU report

LERU provides an important update to its seminal 2016 study on interdisciplinarity whose findings have been referenced worldwide. It also acknowledges the key insights that the SHAPE-ID (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) consortium has made to the field of interdisciplinary research since the 2016 report.

3 Apr 2023

Innovation|Research

New nurse-driven Irish TB smartphone study published on World TB Day

The study from the HIHI Trinity Hub at St James’s Hospital shows remarkable health system savings, increases treatment access and supports self-management in the community.

24 Mar 2023

Health|Innovation|Research

Trinity researchers compete in Sustainable Development Goals Challenge

The researchers, who aim to recycle heat from meat production in Zambia, have secured funding as one of six teams that will compete to chase a first prize of €1 million in the Sustainable Development Goals Challenge (SDG).

10 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Creativity and brain science collide at Creative Brain Week 2023

The exciting week-long event puts Ireland on the world stage, hosting global experts to discuss creativity's impact on our health and well-being through the themes of conflict, joy and imagination.

6 Mar 2023

‘Team Phoenix' soars as Trinity researchers win Air Quality Data Hack 2023 Event

Six researchers from Trinity’s Schools of Engineering and Computer Science and Statistics scooped the top prize of €1500 as winners of the recent Air Quality Data Hack 2023 Event.

6 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Is Irish sign languages legislation fit for purpose?

A conference this week will bring together policy makers, academics, community leaders and civil servants to evaluate if legislation recognising sign languages is fit for purpose.

22 Feb 2023

Innovation|Research|Society

Provost's Innovation Challenge 2023

Another successful Provost Innovation Challenge at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace where students tackled the topic: Student Accommodation

15 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Innovation

New research consortium aims to explain quantum measurement

The project is jointly led by Maximilian Lock and Nicolai Friis in Vienna and Felix Binder, who leads the Quantum Information Theory Group in Trinity’s School of Physics in Dublin.

7 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Trinity named 16th most international university in the world

Trinity College Dublin is the 16th most international university in the world in 2023, based on staff, students, research collaboration and international reputation, according to a new list from Times Higher Education (THE).

2 Feb 2023

Innovation|Research|Students

Trinity duo win ERC Proof of Concept grants

Drs Sarah McCormack and David Finlay have won highly competitive Proof of Concept grants and will now use the funds to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.

24 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Ready, Set, Go: Have your say on the Provost’s Innovation Challenge 2023

The annual Provost's Innovation Challenge@Tangent is an intensive 3-day hackathon when Trinity students from multiple disciplines gather to brainstorm solutions to some of our biggest social issues.

3 Jan 2023

Environment|Innovation

Trinity researchers receive SFI Research Infrastructure awards

The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland and to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland.

29 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Accessible digital skills education programme for adults with intellectual disability continues to grow

Researchers from Trinity, who are spearheading an accessible digital skills education programme that will support better health and social inclusion outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities, have international plans for 2023 – with a roadshow in the UK an early highlight.

26 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Society

Finding festive treats in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland is an online treasure trove of historical records where we can learn a lot about Christmas of the past, explains Ciarán Wallace, in this article that was first published by RTE History.

26 Dec 2022

Culture|Innovation|Research

Five students receive first Three Ireland Connect to STEM scholarships for women

Administered by the Faculty of STEM and Trinity Access and worth €20,000 each over a four-year undergraduate degree programme, the scholarship scheme to benefit 25 students in total aims to attract women from Ireland to study STEM subjects at Trinity.

6 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Community|Innovation|Students

Trinity spinouts celebrate Knowledge Transfer Ireland Awards success

Trinity spinouts SilverCloud Health and ProVerum Medical secured the Commercialisation Impact and People’s Choice awards respectively when the annual Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards ceremony took place this week.

2 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

New early detection programme offers new insights for frailty detection

A newly-launched research programme - FRAILMatics - is discovering new objective signals of frailty that could translate into the next generation of transdisciplinary diagnostics for ageing adults.

29 Nov 2022

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Orla Hardiman named 2022 SFI Researcher of the Year

Trinity researchers won three of nine awards at the 2022 SFI Summit event to celebrate the best of Irish research.

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

New project will equip police with advanced technologies to combat disinformation linked to crime

VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures.

16 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

New study explores IL-25 as potential target for inflammatory disease

A new study, published recently in the journal Antibody Therapeutics, describes the discovery of a novel antibody which may have therapeutic potential by blocking the progression of inflammation caused by the cytokine interleukin-25 (IL-25).

15 Nov 2022

Health|Innovation|Research