WIT- good news

robtri

from RTE today


Waterford Institute of Technology is to lead one of five new Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Research Clusters.
It represents a €5.86m investment led by WIT and spearheaded by Dr William Donnelly, Head of Research at the Institute.
The industry partners involved with the Institute in the Federated Autonomic Management of End-to-end Communication Services strategic research cluster are Cisco Systems, Galway; LM Ericsson Limited, Dublin; IBM Ireland Product Limited, Dublin; Telefónica I+D, Madrid, Spain; and Hewlett Packard, New Jersey, USA.


Full Story -
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0226/waterford.html

mike65

robtri wrote: »

Institute in the Federated Autonomic Management of End-to-end Communication Services strategic research cluster

Wow they sure know who to coin a snappy title.

More seriously is this news that can be the start of a potenialy significant development strand turning WIT into MIT (lite) or just a minor project? And where are the other four clusters?

merlante

Tánaiste defends €24m research spend
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0226/1224241834558.html

"Ms Coughlan highlighted the Waterford investment, the first cluster to be established at an institute of technology. Each cluster has at least one academic partner and one or more firms attached to it. The partners collaborate in research with the expectation that new products would arise."

Bards

merlante wrote: »

Tánaiste defends €24m research spend
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0226/1224241834558.html

"Ms Coughlan highlighted the Waterford investment, the first cluster to be established at an institute of technology. Each cluster has at least one academic partner and one or more firms attached to it. The partners collaborate in research with the expectation that new products would arise."

hopefully this is the 1st real step towards long overdue University Status coupled with increased funding towards research

merlante

Bards wrote: »

hopefully this is the 1st real step towards long overdue University Status coupled with increased funding towards research

I also know for a fact that these awards were made on merit and on the ability to deliver the highest quality research, as opposed to some sort of regional hand-out. The fact that this kind of investment is coming into WIT at a time like this tells a lot.

jimmytheman

one of the pieces of research is into the futureof the city centre -
Wit & chamber of commerce got together 10 businesses inc City Square - Georges Court, Mulligans, Shaws, Revolution, and a few others
they plan to organise focus groups to see how the cty centre can be improved - how and why pople shop in city - and how ofter -

calculate footfall figures for each area of the city - shopping & night time area -
then make recommendations on the possible futuer trends in the city - and use ot to steer city council in the right direction

mecco

jimmytheman wrote: »

one of the pieces of research is into the futureof the city centre -
Wit & chamber of commerce got together 10 businesses inc City Square - Georges Court, Mulligans, Shaws, Revolution, and a few others
they plan to organise focus groups to see how the cty centre can be improved - how and why pople shop in city - and how ofter -

calculate footfall figures for each area of the city - shopping & night time area -
then make recommendations on the possible futuer trends in the city - and use ot to steer city council in the right direction

is that a research project in WIT at the moment? I dont think that project is connected to the SFI research cluster though, is it?

jimwaterford

mecco wrote: »

is that a research project in WIT at the moment? I dont think that project is connected to the SFI research cluster though, is it?

its funded by enterprise Ireland - researched by WIT

mecco

i hope they come up with good suggestions, because they could count the current footfall in the city centre (even relative to this time last year) on their hands!! OK, on a Saturday afternoon they might need to use their toes too!! :-)