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UCC STEM students represent Ireland at Enactus World Cup
Congratulations to Timothy McGrath, 3rd Year Computer Science, Elvis Seporaitis, 5th Year Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Sam Spillane, 2nd Year Civil & Environmental Engineering, who were part of the Enactus UCC team that represented Ireland at the Enactus World Cup 2022 in Puerto Rico.

Congratulations to the UCC, School of Computer Science winners 2021 and 2022 - Huawei’s ‘TECH4HER’ scholarship awardees
Huawei Ireland has announced details of the third year of its ‘TECH4HER’ Scholarship Programme which offers a total of €90,000 annually in financial awards broken down across three universities to eligible female students studying STEM subjects.
Congratulations to the UCC, School of Computer Science winners 2021 and 2022 - Huawei’s ‘TECH4HER’ scholarship awardees
Shaza Aldawamneh, BSc Computer Science
Sharon Coffee Henning, BSc Computer Science
Emma Rainsford, BSc Computer Science
Chen Yu Lin, BSc Computer Science
Aine Ginty, BSc Data Science and Analytics
Sarah Corbett, BSc Data Science and Analytics

Insight at UCC to coordinate a €9 million project to develop Europe’s AI-on-demand Platform
A University College Cork-led research consortium has secured €9 million from the European Union to develop the next phase of Europe’s strategically important artificial intelligence infrastructure known as the AI-on-demand (AIOD) platform.
The project, which runs until the end of 2025, is led from UCC by Professor Barry O’Sullivan, Dr. Gabriel Castane-Gonzalez, Shaun Gavigan, and Tanvir Badwal, of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and School of Computer Science and Information Technology. With UCC, the consortium comprises an additional 23 partners across 14 other European countries: Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. The project kickoff meeting takes place in UCC on the 6th and 7th of September.
The objective of the AI-on-demand platform is to bring together Europe’s AI community while promoting European values. The platform serves as a catalyst to aid AI-based innovation, resulting in new products, services, and solutions to benefit European industry, commerce, and society. By bringing people together, the community resource seeks to address the fragmentation of the European AI landscape and facilitate technology transfer from research to business. Initiated in 2019 with the support of the European Commission, the platform will continue to develop over the coming years through further investment that will see the platform add additional services and tools.

Ireland’s first Computer Science graduates reunite at University College Cork
Ireland’s first Computer Science graduates reunite at University College Cork
- Class of 1982 were the first in students in Ireland to graduate with a degree in Computer Science
- The alumni returned to UCC for a reunion on 26 August
- Notable graduates include Professor Anne Condon a world-renowned academic leader in the field of DNA computing