Name recognition challenge in science arena for NUI Galway

Galway Bay fm newsroom – NUI Galway and University College Cork are facing a name recognition challenge in the world science arena
No delegate surveyed last week at Europe’s largest science conference, the Euro Science Open Forum, correctly named NUIG or UCC
The EuroScience Open Forum takes place every two years and more than 4,000 scientists, students, journalists and policy makers attended it in Copenhagen
The Sunday Times asked 90 delegates from 26 countries, 13 of them from outside the EU, if they could name any Irish university
Trinity College Dublin was the most familiar with 31 per cent being able to name it
The next best was University College Dublin at 7 per cent followed by Dublin City University and University of Limerick both at 1 per cent
No delegate correctly named NUI Galway or University College Cork
2 per cent of delegates said University of Galway while 8 per cent said University of Cork and Cork University
No delegate mentioned NUI Maynooth
In summary – one third of delegates surveyed knew the exact name of an Irish university, one third came close and the final third could not name any Irish universities