GALWAY COLLEGES JOIN RESEARCH PACT

Date Published: 19-Jun-2009

NUIGalway and GMIT have signed a major agreement with other colleges to boost innovation in the Border, Midlands and West [BMW] region.

The colleges have signed an agreement with 5 other higher level institutions to combine their strengths for promote research.

The heads of NUIG, GMIT, Athlone IT, Dundalk IT, Letterkenny IT and Sligo IT and St. Angela’s in Sligo will combine resources under Líonra, the higher education network.

According to today’s Irish Times, the collaboration will see the pooling of resources in areas such as biomedical science and engineering , environment, marine and energy and health services research.