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  On Wednesday, April 4,  Dr Stephen Hynes and Professor Paul Holm presented  a recent scientific evidence review report produced by the Horizon 2020-funded SAPEA consortium, “Food from the Oceans at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. Stephen was nominated to SAPEA expert working group  that produced the report by the RIA. The report advises… | Read on »

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Call for Papers JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Special Issue on: Looking Inside Born Globals and International New Ventures: Strategic Orientations for International Growth Final Deadline for submissions: 31st July 2018   Guest Editors: Natasha Evers Marketing Discipline, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway Email: natasha.evers@nuigalway.ie   Gabriela Gliga Marketing Discipline,… | Read on »

Every day, at every meal, people across Ireland are reliant on a global network of actors to produce, process and distribute the food that they consume. But the dominant system of industrialized food provisioning is unsustainable both from a socio-economic and an environmental perspective. The additional demands that will be made on the food system… | Read on »

HSE recommends that all healthcare workers (HCW) in Irish health services receive the seasonal influenza vaccination each year. The recommended national uptake target is 40%. Compared to adults working in nonhealthcare settings, HCWs are at significantly higher risk of influenza1. Achieving a high uptake of influenza vaccination among HCWs is recognised as a vital infection… | Read on »

Read the full Irish Times article here EPA report: Norton, D., Hynes, S. and Boyd, J. (2018). EPA Research Report No 239: Valuing Ireland’s Coastal, Marine and Estuarine Ecosystem Services, EPA Publications, Wexford. Read the full EPA report here

SFI awards- 2.8m in funding to five leaders in Irish science policy Silicon Republic (Web) (Main), 26/02/2018, Unattributed for both postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, for a period of up to four years. The winners include: Prof Helena Lenihan, University of Limerick Prof John McHale, NUI Galway Prof Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin Dr Alma… | Read on »

NUI Galway was delighted to welcome partners from Ireland, UK, France, Spain and Portugal to NUI Galway this week for the MOSES kick off meeting.  The MOSES project is funded through the EU’s Northern Periphery & Arctic (NPA) Interreg programme. The MOSES project will examine the ‘blue’ growth path for the sustainable development of the… | Read on »

New EPA report by SEMRU researchers launched An EPA report on the economic value of Ireland’s marine and coastal ecosystems has just been published [EPA Research Report No 239:  Valuing Ireland’s Coastal, Marine and Estuarine Ecosystem Services]. The work undertaken by SEMRU researchers, Daniel Norton and Stephen Hynes, and John Boyd from the Galway Mayo… | Read on »

NUI GALWAY – 05/02/2018 Over a barrel: oil hikes will push up more than just fuel prices Sunday Independent (Main), 04/02/2018, p.8, Louise Mcbriide damage competitiveness and in an uncertain world with Brexit, the outcome would generally be bad.” Interest rates could also increase, according to Alan Ahearne, director of the Whitaker Institute in NUI… | Read on »