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The Regional Development Centre (RDC) is a centre to promoteinnovation, technology transer and enterprise in the wider region and is
based on the DkIT Campus.
Dundalk Institute o Technology to lead2.5m project to create 90
sustainable jobs in SME sector
Dundalk Institute o Technology (DkIT)
is to lead a three-year project that will
create 90 sustainable jobs in small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) in border
communities in the Republic o Ireland,
Northern Ireland and western Scotland.
The project, called ICE (Innovation or
Competitive Enterprise), will see the
Regional Development Centre at DkIT
partnering with the University o Ulster,
University o Glasgow and GlasgowCaledonian and has been allocated2.48
million in unding by Interreg IVA, the
cross-border co-operation programme
managed by the Special EU Programmes
Body (SEUPB).
The initiative will concentrate on
counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth,
Monaghan and Sligo in the Republic,
all o Northern Ireland, and western
Scotland.
Focused on skills development in a
network across the three areas involved,
ICE will work with 90 companies in an
intensive innovation programme aimed
at increasing turnover in participating
companies by at
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Competitive Enterprise (ICE), contact the
Regional Development Centre at Dundalk
Institute o Technology on (042) 937 0413.
Small and medium enterprises
have tremendous potential to
help lay the oundations or
economic recovery
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each company will be involved in
the innovation process so that the
programme reaches 270 individuals.
In total, 270 companies will attend 27
inormation sessions to be held
between now and 2011 with 135 o
these to undergo an innovation audit
to measure progress.
Irene McCausland, External ServicesManager, DkIT said ICE was a timely
and relevant initiative in the current
economic climate. Small and medium
enterprises have tremendous potential
to help lay the oundations or economic
recovery and this is especially true
in the border region as well as in
Northern Ireland and western Scotland
where there is an established culture
o entrepreneurship. Their business
prospects will improve as they gain a
competitive edge by innovating across
all their operations.
The businesses that participate in
this programme over the next three
years will be acilitated in introducing
new or radically changed products and
services as well as internal processes and
changed business models. In addition,
we will work with them on opening new
market segments or niches, she added.
The approach will be very
much one o learning by
doing and the role o
this Institute and our
partners at partners at
University o Glasgow,
Glasgow Caledonian
and University o Ulster
will be one o upporting
companies to grow a own
in-house skills and build an
innovation culture. With day-
to-day pressures taking
precedence, there can be a
particular issue or smaller
companies in nding
the time and resources to
engage in innovation but it is only
by innovating that they can hope to
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Getting access to nance in a cash-
strapped economy is not easy so Dundalk
Credit Union has launched a new scheme
that it hopes will encourage budding
student and graduate entrepreneurs.
The Credit Union, which is celebrating
its 40th year in business, has created the
Dundalk Credit Union Student Innovation
Fund at DkIT to mark its anniversary and
to give something back to the community
o which it has been a part or our
decades.
The 15,000 und is the rst o its kind
in Ireland. Its aim is to provide essential
unding or third-level student projects
that show potential or commercial
success. It will go towards marketing,
prototyping and other related costs or
approved projects.
The und was launched by the Minister
or Justice Equality and Law Reorm,
Dermot Ahern TD, at the Dundalk Credit
Union oce. Speaking at the launch,
Minister Ahern commented, This
most welcome and positive initiative by
Dundalk Credit Union the rst o its
kind in the country should serve as a
template or other organisations and
Institutes to replicate.
Billy Doyle, General Manager o Dundalk
Credit Union, expressed his Boards
delight at being able to support student
enterprise at DkIT.
This is a novel idea which we believe will
result in many more students exploring
new venture creation and ultimately sel
employment something badly needed
in these challenging times. As part o
our 40th birthday celebrations we are
delighted to be able to make this positive
and meaningul nancial commitment to
both DkIT and Dundalk itsel.
With the downturn in the economy,
the concept o sel-employment is now
becoming a real career option or third-
level graduates, noted Sean MacEntee,
Incubation Centre Manager, Dundalk
Institute o Technology, at the launch.
To be considered or unding, an
applicant will need to show some
evidence that a market exists or the
product or service being promoted. To
apply or unding support, students must
be in ull-time attendance on one o
DkITs undergraduate or postgraduate
courses. The Regional Development
Centre in DkIT will administer the und
and signicant interest is anticipated.
The Dundalk Credit Union Student Innovation
Fund will open in September 2009. Applications
orms are available rom Garrett Duy
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the rate o imaging or the device to
be really useul to the team. So began
a remarkable, symbiotic development
partnership between Andor and the
SMRC which has lasted to this day.
There are a number o aspects to the
partnership. One is that the SMRC tests
new equipment and provides eedback to
Andor in eect becoming a beta testingsite or its latest technology. Another is
that the SMRC uses Andor technology
in its experiments and publishes papers
supported by data obtained using this
equipment. Thirdly, the SMRC acts
as a demonstration acility or Andor
equipment, which means that potential
Andor customers can come to the SMRC
and try out the equipment or themselves.
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oces within the RDC, consists o a
motorised microscope attached to a
conocal head, a bank o our lasers, a
number o scientic cameras and variouscouplers, plus associated sotware. The
equipment is suciently powerul to allow
the simultaneous imaging o up to our
wavelengths o light.
The equipment will be used to urther
SMRCs research eorts into studying the
role o a variety o ions, such as Ca2+
within cells and how these are aected by
modulating ion channels. These channels
are proteins, which act as molecular
switches to permit various ions such as
sodium, calcium and potassium to fow
in and out o cells. The infux and efux
o the ions modulates the activity o the
cells and thereore can infuence their
contractile state. One ocus o the SMRC
research is to examine i diseases such
as urinary incontinence or Hirschprungs
Disease, a condition that causes bowel
obstruction in inants, may be treated by
targeting ion channels.
In the S MRCs electrophysiology labs,
researchers record ion channel activity and
then in the adjacent Cellular Imaging Labs,
they use Andor technology to create visualimages o that activity. In time, Hollywood
is hopeul that through gaining a better
understanding o ion channel behaviour it
may be possible to develop drugs that can
manage such conditions. And in his view,
Andor has played an invaluable role in the
research eort by supplying technology
that allows his researchers to gaze into
cells and tissue and understand their inner
workings.
Its been a antastic journey with Andor;
weve really enjoyed it, he says.
It is a journey that has proven not only that
can academics work well with industrial
partners but that the partnership can have
signicant benets or both sides..
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The Institutes strategy o
ocusing research eorts
on a small number o key
areas where there is critical
mass, sustainability and
relevant expertise has been
an unequivocal success, writes
Dr Tim McCormac, Head o
Research at DkIT
One o the big changes that have taken
place at Dundalk IT over the past ve years
is the amount o research thats conducted
here. But it has not just been a question ogreater output: the research being done at
the Institute is now highly ocused, too.
Realising that it would be ar better
to excel in a small number o research
disciplines rather than be just average
at a large number, we decided to invest
in strategically important growth areas
o research that were aligned with our
emerging strengths in specic areas. As
a result, the Institute has established a
strong reputation in several research areas,
including ageing and health, energy and
the environment, sotware engineering,
music and entrepreneurship.
The research activity is spearheaded
by six research centres, one o which,
the Smooth Muscle Research Centre,
is proled on the previous page. The
other ve are Netwell (Social Networks,
Environments and Technologies or
Wellness and Ageing-in-place); the
National Freshwater Research Centre;
the Centre or Renewable Energy; the
Sotware Technology Research Centre;
and the Centre or Entrepreneurship
Research (CER). The Institute has also
recently established three research groups
in Creative Media, Electrochemistry and
Organic Resource, which also contribute
strongly to the overall research output.
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DkIT researchers have secured an
impressive23 million in research unding
in the past ve years through national
unding bodies such as the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Health Research
Board, Science Foundation Ireland,
the Higher Education Authority and
Enterprise Ireland. Funding secured rom
the latter agency, primarily through the
Commercialisation Fund, represents
nearly one-quarter o the total research
unding secured in the past ve years,
thus highlighting our researchers ability
to secure unding or technology transer
activities as well as actual research. Their
Dr Fergal McCaery joined
DkIT in February 2008 as an
SFI-unded Stokes Lecturer
within the Department o
Computing & Maths and
a researcher within the
Sotware Technology Research
Centre (STORC)
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unding rom sources outside the State,
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There are currently more than 50
registered postgraduate research
students at DkIT. This represents almost a
250% increase since 2003. The increase
can be directly attributed to the creation
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groups, and their immediate impact
on its research activities. At present,
approximately hal o all research
postgraduate students work within the
six research centres, with close to 90%
involved in research consistent with the
Institutes established research themes.
One o our strategic aims is to
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areas. This will ensure that not only will
the Institute produce the well motivated
and highly trained researchers that are
required or Irelands economic revival
but that it remains an attractive research
destination or undergraduate students
wishing to pursue a research career.
The principal mechanisms that will drive
the development o structured PhD
programmes include leveraging the
expertise available through the Research
Alliance within the IOT sector, which is
unded through the Strategic Innovation
Fund, and the Institutes existing
strategic partnerships with universities.
In addition, the Institute is preparing to
roll out, in September 2009, a series o
generic skills training modules or all
researchers across the Institute.
In conclusion, over the past ve years
Dundalk IT has dramatically upped its
game in relation to research by ocusing
its eorts on a number o specic
areas. In doing so, it has developed
a reputation that in some cases truly
merits the description world class.
This is a very welcome development
or the Institute whose standing within
the national and international research
community is greatly enhanced. It is
good news rom a national perspective,
too, because it clearly shows that the
Institute and its researchers are playing
their part in creating the smart economy
that is needed to set the country on
a course o sustainable growth and
prosperity.
For more inormation on the Institute's research
activities please contact Dr Tim McCormac
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west coast o Ireland. Seaweeds can grow
quite ast and you can get a lot o biomass
out o them. The aim o our research is
rst o all characterising whats in them
and, secondly, investigating their potential
or energy use. This will involve ermenting
them or biogas and experimenting with
bioethanol production rom seaweed.
The latter will be done using the biouel-
testing laboratory at DkIT.
One o the ultimate objectives o the
project is to nd a more sustainable
way to meet the energy requirements o
remote, dispersed communities, which
currently rely heavily on ossil uels being
transported to them. Developing a
sustainable local source o energy would
help oset this reliance. In addition, with
the European Parliament calling or 10%o road transport uel to come rom
renewable sources by 2020, sustainable,
industrial-scale biouel production has
become an urgent challenge.
The BioMara team will also be initiating
joint projects with companies with the
aim o developing commercial applications
rom the research.
The6 million BioMara research project
was launched in April and is expected to
last our years. It has received4.9 million
rom the EUs Interreg IVA programme,
with additional unding coming rom
Highlands & Islands Enterprise, the Crown
Estate, Northern Ireland Executive and the
Irish Government. DkITs research partners
on BioMara are Sams, the University oStrathclyde, Queens University Belast, the
University o Ulster and the Institute o
Technology, Sligo.
The our-person research team at DkIT will
include two PhDs and two postgraduate
researchers, along with a cross-border
education ocer whose job will be to
produce educational material or schools,
communities and businesses to make them
more aware o the bioenergy area and the
opportunities aorded by it.
More inormation: [email protected]
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heading up a major research project looking at ways in which water quality can be permanently
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Using seaweed to power your car may seem ar-etched but
DkIT researchers are involved in a project which is exploringthis and other possibilities or the humble marine plant.
DkITs Centre or Renewable Energy
(Credit) is one o the six academic partners
involved in Sustainable Fuels rom Marine
Biomass (BioMara), a new UK and Irish
joint project that aims to demonstrate the
easibility o producing third-generation
biouels rom marine biomass.
The ocus o the project is to harness
bioenergy available rom the marine
environment, explains Dr Paul MacArtain,
Research Manager at Credit. The
two major areas were looking at are
macroalgae otherwise known as
seaweed and microalgae, which are
micro-plants.
BioMara is being led by the Scottish
Association or Marine Science (Sams),
an independent marine research institute
whose particular expertise is in microalgae.
Credits ocus, on the other hand, is on
macroalgae (seaweed).
They grow relatively quickly, depending
what part o the world youre in, and
theyve been exploited or ood use since
the second world war, says MacArtain,
who adds that Ireland, particularly its
craggy west coast, is extremely rich in the
marine plant.
There is a lot o seaweed around the
SeaweedphotographcourtesyofSams
Dr Caroline Gilleran, Lecturer, DKIT
and Dr Paul MacArtain, Credit
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