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Cobh Harbour to Host Ireland’s First Living Sea Wall

University College Cork (UCC), through the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences and the UCC Sustainability Institute, has announced the installation of the Living Seawalls in Cork by Marine Ecologist Dr Louise Firth, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability.

Cobh Harbour to Host Ireland’s First Living Sea Wall

University College Cork (UCC), through the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences and the UCC Sustainability Institute, has announced the installation of the Living Seawalls in Cork by Marine Ecologist Dr Louise Firth, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability.

(L-R): Dr Waleed Faisal, CEO ArrayPatch, Áine Denn, Co-Founder, Altify and Darren Cunningham, CFO ArrayPatch.

UCC spin-out awarded €50K by InterTradeIreland to scale microneedle technology

ArrayPatch, a spin-out company from University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Pharmacy has been announced as a Regional Winner in the InterTradeIreland All-Island Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition 2025.

Programme Director at Ignite at University College Cork Eamon Curtin with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science of Ireland Mr James Lawless TD.

UCC business incubation programme awarded €1M by Higher Education Authority

IGNITE, the award-winning business incubation programme run by University College Cork (UCC) is among five Irish higher education institution initiatives to have been allocated a performance funding award of €1M, in recognition of the programme’s exemplary performance in working towards the achievement of national strategy and policy priorities.

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