Galway Bay FM Newsroom - A team at NUI Galway has been awarded €1.2m in funding to lead a European project on building innovation in higher education.
Idea to Impact - or i2i - aims to train students and staff enhance the start-up ecosystem in a network of Universities and colleges.
The project will train more than 800 students and 300 staff across a range of European educational institutes over a two year period.
It gets underway this month - with the ultimate aim of developing a more entrepreneurial mindset in disciplines including heath, technology, climate, culture and creativity.
NUI Galway, working with partner institutions in Spain, Greece, Slovakia and Bulgaria, has been awarded €1.2m to lead the project.
The research team says it looks forward to demonstrating the potential of the west of Ireland as a leader in the Entrepreneurial domain - and working with like-minded partners to build innovation capacity and create a foundation for future funding in the field.
