Water Institute Events

The Water Institute’s Prof. Fiona Regan will be speaking at Environment Ireland this October – Ireland’s major environmental policy and management conference. Her talk will discuss ‘Innovations In How We Monitor Our Water Environment’. The event is in its 15th year and is run with the Environmental Protection Agency and Dept of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

The event will be an excellent opportunity to discuss pressing matters for the sector, allowing industry leaders, experts, practitioners and policy makers both nationally and internationally to share and connect. The conference has been advertised as a must-attend for those in the environmental sector, with the Dáil having declared a climate and biodiversity emergency.

For more see:

https://www.environmentireland.ie/

This is an opportunity for companies to meet face-to-face with experts at Dublin City University (DCU) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) who are actively engaged in research that has applications across many industry sectors. You can profile your business, outline the challenges for your business, explore new ideas and understand the various options to collaborate and fund R&D projects through state and European supports. Companies with both an established R&D programme and start-ups with new ideas are welcome.

The purpose of these meetings is to facilitate targeted exchanges between researchers and industry and explore opportunities for collaboration through access to talent, knowledge transfer, training and industry/academic partnerships.

Following a light breakfast the plenary session will outline research at DCU & DkIT and how the institutions collaborate with industry. You will hear from companies who have previously collaborated with DCU & DkIT. This will be followed by pre-scheduled one to one meetings which will take place between individual DCU & DkIT researchers/business development managers and industry representatives who are interested in extending their R&D capability by working with third level institutions.

Speakers

• Richard Stokes – CEO DCU Invent & Director of Commercialisation, DCU
• Prof. Noel O’Connor – CEO Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• Lewize Crothers – CEO and Founder of Exit Entry
• Neil McLoughlin – Technology Transfer Manager at DkIT
• More to follow

Focus of the event

• Get to know the research capabilities at DCU & DkIT
• Learn how to fund R&D through collaboration with DCU & DkIT
• Meet with research experts to discuss challenges for your business
• Find out how DCU & DkIT do Business

Main Sector/Topic Areas

• ICT & Digital Services
• Internet of Things
• Lifesciences and Health
• Biopharmaceuticals
• Medtech
• Advanced Manufacturing & Materials
• Engineering
• Water Resource Management
• Energy & Environmental Sustainability
• Social & Economic Concerns
• Manufacturing Competitiveness
• Physical Science
• Education
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Business Innovation
• Social and Ethical Impact
• Legal Studies
• Communications and Public Engagement
• Social Enterprise

The 30th Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquium will be hosted in a collaboration between the ESAI (Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland) and the DCU Water Institute. The conference will be hosted in Glasnevin, DCU. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Ireland’s Water, Energy & Environment in a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.’

Environ is the longest running and largest forum for environmental researchers in Ireland with an average of 275 delegates attending the event annually. It provides a high-visibility platform for young and experienced researchers to present their findings to an audience drawn from academia, government bodies and agencies, as well as industry.

A number of events run over the three days, including a variety of workshops, oral and poster presentations, plenary speakers, Q&A panel discussions and a conference gala dinner.

For more information, please see the following link.

This event will discuss forthcoming activities for World Water Day 2022 on the theme of ‘Groundwater’ and introduce the 2022 edition of the UN World Water Development Report on the same theme.

Through a multi-stakeholder approach, the World Water Day 2022 campaign on the theme of groundwater will contribute to a raised public, policy and scientific awareness of the opportunities and risks of addressing groundwater in the context of achieving SDG 6.

Groundwater provides almost half of all drinking water worldwide, about 40% of water for irrigated agriculture and about 1/3 of water supply required for industry. It sustains ecosystems, maintains the baseflow of rivers and prevents land subsidence and seawater intrusion. Despite its importance, groundwater is invisible. And out of sight oftentimes also means out of mind.

Through this event that will introduce World Water Day 2022 and the UN World Water Development Report on the theme of groundwater, participants will be able to shape the campaign through suggestions of activities but also get the information and the tools needed to raise awareness of groundwater.

We cannot live without water, many millions don’t have enough and flooding regularly hits areas of Ireland and of countries around the world.
These complexities of water will be discussed in an online round table hosted by the Mary Mulvihill Association and DCU Water Institute.
The panel will include people with particular interests in water quality, our damp weather, equity and security of supply, and the pleasures of contemplating rivers, lakes and seas.
The wonders of water include its chemical simplicity (H2O) and its biological indispensability, its calming and healing qualities. The worries of water include the dangers it represents and the challenges of managing it equitably and effectively.

This panel discussion takes place ahead of World Water Day (22 March) which this year has the theme of Groundwater.

It also takes place in association with the Mary Mulvihill Award, a science media competition for students which this year has the theme, Water. Entries for this competition may
address the theme from social, political, scientific, engineering, artistic or other perspectives.

The panellists for this discussion will include:

• Susan Hegarty, Head of the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University and leader of citizen science projects on water quality
• Padraic Larkin, former deputy director-general of the Environmental Protection Agency and former chair of Water JPI, a European programme on Water Challenges for a Changing World
• Theo Dorgan, poet, social commentator and ocean sailor
• Niamh Shaw, STEAM artist and prospective space explorer, who wants to know if there is water on Mars

Please register in advance for this meeting:

https://lnkd.in/gSMsJex2

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.