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€125m Research Income in 2022/23

Highest ever research generated income

44 spin-out companies created since 2008 based on UCC Intellectual Property

190 graduate founders working on 160 start-up ideas, the most successful of which now employ almost 370 staff

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Photo (L-R): Professor Sarah Culloty (Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC), Professor Barry O'Sullivan (Director of the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC’s Futures in AI and Data Analytics), Professor V.S. Subrahmanian (Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the Head of Northwestern Security & AI Lab), Professor John O'Halloran (UCC President), Professor Ursula Kilkelly (Vice President for Global Engagement at UCC).
13 Mar 2025

Northwestern University and University College Cork establish key partnership on Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, and National Security

The Northwestern Security and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NSAIL), under the leadership of Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, and the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC Futures on AI and Data Analytics at University College Cork, under the leadership of Professor Barry O’Sullivan, have entered into a partnership to support collaboration in the area of Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, National Security.
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Photo (L-R): Professor Sarah Culloty (Head of the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC), Professor Barry O'Sullivan (Director of the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC’s Futures in AI and Data Analytics), Professor V.S. Subrahmanian (Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and the Head of Northwestern Security & AI Lab), Professor John O'Halloran (UCC President), Professor Ursula Kilkelly (Vice President for Global Engagement at UCC).
13 Mar 2025

Northwestern University and University College Cork establish key partnership on Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, and National Security

The Northwestern Security and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (NSAIL), under the leadership of Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, and the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics and UCC Futures on AI and Data Analytics at University College Cork, under the leadership of Professor Barry O’Sullivan, have entered into a partnership to support collaboration in the area of Geopolitics, Artificial Intelligence, National Security.
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12 Mar 2025

€3.2M licence income distributed over last 5 years from UCC’s commercialisation activity

€3.2M of UCC licence income has been distributed university-wide over the past 5 years, with €1.3M distributed to inventors and a further €920K distributed to inventors’ schools and research centres. These are among the figures reported in UCC’s Innovation Impact Report for 2024, launched today by Vice President for Research and Innovation, Prof John Cryan and Director of UCC Innovation, Dr Sally Cudmore.
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12 Mar 2025

UCC subjects ranked in world’s top 50 and 100

UCC has been named as one of the world's top universities for the study of 29 subjects according to the latest world subject rankings produced by higher education analysts, QS. This is up from 24 subjects featuring last year. Nursing (27), Agriculture & Forestry (84), Law (94), Performing Arts (51-100) have been ranked in the top 50 and top 100 in the world.
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