Are Centres Details
- 1. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] The Applied Research Enhancement (ARE) programme is supported by Enterprise Ireland and the National Development Plan. Since the EI ARE Programme has commenced in 2005, 17 applied research centres of excellence in 11 Institutes of Technology have been funded with seed funding in order of €1.25 to €2.0 million for a 3 to 5 year period. This results in a total financial commitment of approximately €23 million to date. This seed funding provides for procurement of a dedicated core research team led by an industrial experienced Centre Manager, dedicated lab space and provision of specialised equipment. The objectives of these centres are • To enable regional development by introducing innovative technological solutions through collaboration with industrial partners • To develop the next generation technology platforms for the benefit of Irish based industry through a dedicated applied research strategy The centres can be divided into 3 technology clusters • ICT & Software • Bio Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical • Bio-Medical Devices & Materials Details of the 16 current ARE centres and their contact details can be found in the following pages.
- 2. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] ICT & Software Letterkenny WiSAR Wireless Sensor Applied Research CDI Centre of Design & Innovation Sligo Dundalk CASALA- Centre for Affective Software for Ambient Living Awareness Athlone SUNAT Seamless Use Through Network Abstraction Technologies Waterford 3CS Centre for Converged IP Communications Services Cork TEC Technologies for Embedded Computing
- 3. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] ARE ICT & Software Funded Centres CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE I OT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY CONTACT TEC Cork TEC focus is on the development of Embedded Technologies for Embedded www.cit.ie Computing Technologies (i.e. electronics and Computing software) for the next generation systems and http://www.tec-centre.ie/ components in the applications of consumer electronics, entertainment devices, household Kieran Delaney appliances, cars, airplanes, e-health, etc Tel: 353 (0)21 4326379 Email: [email protected] Waterford 3CS undertakes applied research in the domain of 3CS www.wit.ie converged IP (Internet Protocol) based Centre for Converged IP communications services. This includes the Communications Services convergence of access networks (fixed, IPTV, Barry Downes http://www.3cs.info/ wireless, and mobile) & of network architectures based Tel: 353 (0)51 302932 on IP Multimedia Subsystem. An example of this is Email: [email protected] the development of software for the creation of mobile phone internet pages.
- 4. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] SUNAT Athlone SUNAT research has a focus on facilitating the rapid Seamless Use Through Network www.ait.ie prototyping, creation and delivery of mobility enabled Abstraction Technologies applications by developing a Service Enterprise www.ait.ie/faculties/engineering/as Architecture for Adaptive Mobility (SEAAM) Anthony Cunningham rc.shtml Tel: 353 (0)906483096 Email: [email protected] WiSAR: is a centre of excellence in wireless sensor WiSAR Letterkenny network (WSN) technology which aims to become the Wireless Sensor Applied www.LyIT.ie hub of research and applied solutions for technology Research Centre companies in the NW region. The research themes of Website www.wisar.org the centre are to develop WSN solutions in the Body Area & Built Environment Networks for industrial David Tracey collaborators. Tel 074 9186454 Email: [email protected] Dundalk CASALA objective is to work with Irish industry to CASALA- www.dkit.ie achieve product innovation, business competitiveness, Centre for Affective Software for and market leadership in the emerging ‘ambient Ambient Living Awareness assisted living’ (AAL) sector. The AAL refers to the drive to provide ICT solutions to extend the time the elderly can live in their home environment Rodd Bond-PI Telephone:042 9391080 Email [email protected] Centre Manager Andrew McFarlan Tel 0870 516705
- 5. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] CDI Sligo CDI fosters & supports more effective design within Centre of Design & Innovation www.itsligo.ie Irish industry and business through research in design http://www.designinnovation.ie management & methodologies and assisting companies to develop their design capabilities David Tormey Tel. 071-91-55496 Email: [email protected]
- 6. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] ARE Bio Life Sciences / & Pharmaceuticals Letterkenny IT CAMBio Centre for Applied Marine Biology Dundalk IT ICBC Ion Channel Biotechnology Centre Shannon ABC Limerick IT Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre PMBRC Pharmaceutical & Molecular Tralee IT Biotechnology Research Centre Waterford IT
- 7. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] Bio Life Science & Pharmaceutical ARE Funded Centre CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE INSTITUTE OF DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY CONTACT TECHNOLOGY CAMBIO Letterkenny CAMBIO has an applied research focus in 3 areas Centre of Applied Marine www.lyit.ie Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology Biomedical Marine Research http://www.cambio.ie/ Marine Food Processing and Waste Remediation Wolfram Bruck Tel: 353 (0)74 9186322 Email: [email protected] Shannon ABC Limerick Shannon ABC develops innovative products and Shannon Applied Biotechnology www.lit.ie ingredients from natural resources using novel Centre & processes to obtain value added food products, food www.shannonabc.com Tralee flavours and medicinal products. These products will www.ittralee.ie be used to create, enhance or add value to existing products in the food, healthcare and developing nutraceutical industries Benjamin Bradley Phone 066 7144217 Email: [email protected]
- 8. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] PMBRC: Waterford PMBRC: Pharmaceutical and Molecular Contact Pharmaceutical and Molecular www.wit.ie Biotechnology Research Centre at the Waterford Niall O’ Reilly Biotechnology Research Centre Institute Technology will generate a stimulus for Phone (051) 306167 innovation, new ideas and technology transfer for the Email: pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries based [email protected] in the South East of Ireland. The 2 research themes to be undertaken by PMBRC are Drug Delivery Technologies & Development of Novel Process Technologies ICBC Dundalk The multidisciplinary Ion Channel Biotechnology Ion Channel Biotechnology Centre www.dkit.ie Centre (ICBC) at Dundalk Institute of Technology is a http://ww2.dkit.ie/research/smrc centre of excellence in applied research capable of exploiting opportunities in life sciences for the economic benefit of regional and national Irish based Bio-Pharmaceutical Industries. The Centre uses a combination of physiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, electrophysiology and organic chemistry to focus on commercialising the results of the 3 identified applied research themes for the centre for the two Contact disease states of – urinary incontinence and Mary Earle osteoarthritis Phone 00353 429370475 Email: [email protected]
- 9. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] Biomedical Devices / Materials DIT CREST Centre for Research in Engineering Surface Technology Galway-Mayo IT Tallaght IT GMedTech MiCRA Micro Sensors Galway Medical for Clinical Analysis Technologies Centre Waterford IT SEAM South Eastern Applied Materials Research Centre Cork IT CAPPA Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Control MEDIC Medical Engineering Design and Innovation Centre
- 10. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE INSTITUTE OF DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY CONTACT TECHNOLOGY GMEDTECH Galway-Mayo GMEDTECH offers an advanced product performance Galway Medical Technologies www.gmit.ie testing service on both a regional and national basis by http://www.gmedtech.ie/ engaging medical device development companies to identify their product test needs, GMEDTECH enable implantable medical products to be tested in environments that very closely match the in-vivo John Kelly: condition Tel: 353 (0)91 742870 Email: [email protected] MiCRA Tallaght MiCRA targets the rapidly growing biomedical Micro Sensors for Clinical diagnostics market, in particular the point-of-care Analysis www.ittallaght sector, in particular new devices to enable early http://www.it- .ie/ diagnosis and real-time results, i.e. the development of tallaght.ie/research/micra/ biosensors for the main targets in a kidney and liver function test. Oliver Worsfold Tel:353 (0)1 4042084 Email: [email protected]
- 11. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] SEAM Waterford SEAM has identified 3 research strands: South Eastern Applied Materials www.wit.ie 1). X-ray Micro-tomography http://www.wit.ie/seam 2). Microwave Processing & Remediation of Materials. 3) Magnetically Targeted Nanoparticles in Biomedicine Ramesh Raghavendra Phone: 051 – 845648 Email: [email protected] CAPPA Cork The Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Centre for Advanced Photonics www.cit.ie Analysis (CAPPA) at the Cork Institute of Technology and Process Analysis is a focal point for industry-led applied research in www.cappa.ie Optics and Photonics in the Cork region. The CAPPA centre develops new photonic devices and techniques that will find applications in process analytical technology, in particular for the pharmaceutical and medical -technology industries. Eamonn O’Neill Tel: 087 9669803 Email [email protected]
- 12. Applied Research Enhancement Programme Centres of Excellence for Enterprise Development Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] MEDIC: Cork MEDIC as an applied research centre of excellence Medical Engineering Design and www.cit.ie will generate a stimulus for innovation, new ideas and Innovation Centre technology transfer in the research themes of Smart Medical Devices for Assistive Rehabilitation. This objective will be achieved by consolidating and Contact enhancing the research capability within CIT in two Pat O’Connor specific and focused research strands namely Smart Tel 086 8048111 Surgical Devices & Smart Rehabilitation Devices. Email [email protected] CREST Dublin CREST is a national centre of excellence in the applied A Centre for Research in www.dit.ie research area of specialised coatings. The Centre has Engineering Surface Technology grown from the initial three staff members to ten full- http://www.crestdit.com/ time DIT staff members and six CREST postgraduate students. The Centre serves up to 100 clients per annum, has delivered three commercial licenses for Contact DIT, filed one patent and published 14 research John Colreavy publications in the field of surface coatings The centre Tel (0)1 4027940 has 3 predominant research themes: Corrosion Email Control, Hygiene Surfaces & Air Quality [email protected]