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Higher Education Research Equipment Grant (HEREG) 2024


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UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science


Securing our future through research excellence. We are currently recruiting academic posts for UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science


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Technology Spotlight - DeepField : On Chip Magnetic Sensing for Surgical Navigation


A chip enabling scalable manufacturing, dramatically reduced costs, and faster assembly.


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Showcasing the companies that have emerged from UCC Innovation over the years, illustrating a diverse range of technologies across a wide variety of areas.


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Our Impact

€113m Research Income in 2021/22

Highest ever and 18% increase from 2020/21

44 spin-out companies created since 2008 based on UCC Intellectual Property

UCC have 20 European Research Council grant awardees, 10 of which were awarded since 2021 in Horizon Europe.

190 graduate founders working on 160 start-up ideas, the most successful of which now employ almost 370 staff

2,853 publication outputs in 2021

105,343 citations (2019-2021)

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18 Apr 2024

UCC IGNITE Awards celebrate business ideas from budding entrepreneurs

Innovation, sustainability and social impact are at the heart of start-up ideas presented at the IGNITE Awards & Showcase in the Hub, University College Cork on April 17th. The start-ups are working on innovative new products and services in the areas of water conservation, waste and the circular economy, mental health and wellbeing and recruitment and productivity.
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Photo: Professor John Cryan, a renowned researcher in the area of gut health features in the 'Hack your Health: Secrets of your Gut' Netflix documentary.
15 Apr 2024

Hack your Health: New Netflix documentary features UCC expert

Hack Your Health: Secrets of your Gut, a new Netflix documentary will premiere globally on Friday 26th April, and will feature a University College Cork (UCC) scientist who is a global expert on gut health.
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11 Apr 2024

Ireland’s climate policy is failing women and marginalised communities – new report

New report finds that government response to climate crisis is worsening inequalities for women and marginalised people. Energy poverty, housing poverty, food poverty, mobility and spatial injustices risk being exacerbated by the climate crisis and policy responses. The report was led by UCC researchers for Feminist Communities for Climate Justice, a joint project between the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Community Work Ireland.
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11 Apr 2024

Findings of first ever audit of Parkinson’s disease care in Ireland published

Significant delays between patient referral and their first clinic visit. Insufficient communication and information-sharing was evident. PD nurse specialists post are lacking nationwide.
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