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The Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis (CAPPA) is delighted to announce that it recently received over €550,000 worth of funding for two projects, PIXCAN and Photocell, through the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund program. When asked about receiving the funding, centre manager Dr Liam Lewis said, “We are delighted to have received this funding […]

Researchers and engineers from the Institute of Technology Sligo are using their knowledge, expertise and facilities to assist in the current fight against COVID-19. The institute’s  response was immediate when a call came from Sligo University Hospital (SUH) to provide assistance. As an initial response the Institute set to work collecting PPE from across the

As part of the Enterprise Ireland Capital Equipment call CAPPA Technology Gateway recently purchased a new Raman, Witec Alpha R microscope. The new microscope is an advanced version, Raman microscope having excitation wavelengths in the visible (633 nm) and Near Infrared (830 nm). CAPPA currently posses a Horiba Raman microscope with wavelengths of 532 nm

SEAM Technology Gateway Centre of WIT has won the IMR Manufacturing & Supply Chain Awards 2020 in the Industry Research Partnership of the Year category. The Awards ceremony was held in Citywest, Dublin on 29th January 2020. SEAM has won the prestigious  Knowledge transfer Ireland (KTI) Award under industrial consultancy category before and also have

The Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis (CAPPA) at Cork Institute of Technology has today launched their new EU-funded OPTAPHI project worth over €3.8 million. OPTAPHI is a European Double Doctorate Programme on “Optical sensing using advanced photo–induced effects”, and involves five partner institutions across Europe. The network was official launched by CIT President,

l-r: Dr Ramesh Raghavendra, SEAM Centre Director and Technology Gateway Manager; Michael Kelly, Centre Manager of 3DWIT; Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys; and Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan with 3D printed crests of their counties presented on the day So far, 2019 has been a

The SEAM Gateway is leading a Disruptive Technology Innovation-funded project called E-BAMBI, which will research the 3D printing of biomedical implants. The SEAM Gateway led a consortium comprising two SMEs – Schivo Medical and  Graph Engineering – multinational company, Stryker Ireland, and its sister Technology Gateway, CREST, to receive over € 1.9 million in funding

Cybersecurity attacks present one of the biggest threats to society today. Governments and industry alike exert great effort to frustrate these attacks them, frequently at an international level. Researchers at the COMAND Technology Gateway – Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) – have been working on Protective (Proactive Risk Management through Improved Cyber Situational Awareness), a

One of the larger projects that the COMAND Technology Gateway had direct input in proposing solutions for during 2018 was surrounding cyber-security. The aim of the project was to provide security teams with a greater cyber defence capability through improved cyber situational awareness (CSA). This would simultaneously raise their level of awareness of the risk

The MET Gateway is a winner at the Galway Chamber Business Awards 2018! The annual Galway Chamber Business Awards 2018 took place on 1st December in the Galway Bay Hotel. The awards are a celebration of the success of the Galway business community and were attended by a wide selection of Galway’s business and industry leaders,