IGNITE Alum Dr Mark O'Sullivan and INFANT researcher Dr Alison O’Shea of Neurobell won the top prize in the 2022 Ideate Ireland competition. Two more research teams and a student from University College Cork and its research centres, Tyndall National Institute and INFANT Research Centre, were also awarded prizes in the competition.

Sunny Numbers, an e-learning platform powered by peer support that helps you to build data skills, has been named Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Best Business.

On Tuesday 15 March we hosted the Start-Up Lab Spring 2022 Grand Pitch event and each participant had to do a 3minute pitch to an adjudication panel.

IDEAS FOR IMPACT Spring 2022 award winners announced.

IDEAS FOR IMPACT is a 12 hour hackathon designed to find new ideas to solve the world’s biggest problems. 

On Friday 18th February we hosted a Student Entrepreneur Awards information session for UCC students interested in applying for the competition.

Are you working on a start-up idea that has potential for commercial, environmental or social impact?

Are you an undergraduate student, a postgraduate student or a recent graduate?

And do you have the ambition to work full-time on the idea in the future?

Then Start-Up Lab may be for you!

IGNITE UCC has revealed that it is shifting from two open calls per year to four open calls per year – taking on five start-ups four times a year instead of 10 start-ups twice a year.

A number of IGNITE start-ups have recently been profiled in the media.

Start-Up Lab Autumn 2021 Winners Announced.