We were delighted to welcome Niamh Smyth TD Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation to NovaUCD earlier this week as the guest speaker at the GenAI: From Prototype to Scalable Adoption event. University College Dublin.

Delighted that our second 6-month AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme kicked-off NovaUCD yesterday with 9 exciting start-ups, Ailtir, Leapifai, NestiFi, PacSana, Reactable AI, Run Audit, TrojanTrack, UniDoodle and UnitMode. ucd.ie/innovation/new… Exciting 6-months ahead.

From colourful flags to festival tents, UCD Estate Services and volunteers have worked tirelessly to bring the University College Dublin campus to life for today's #UCDFestival 🎪 With 100+ FREE events starting at 12pm, there's something for everyone - don't miss it! 👉 bit.ly/43xwSXV

Behind every great event is a team of supporters who help bring it to life! Thank you to our partners Intel Ireland, Medtronic Ireland and Amgen 🧪🔬🧬 for helping make the #UCDFestival such a success 👏

That's a wrap on #UCDFestival 2025! 🎉 Thank you to all who came, explored, discovered and celebrated with us. A special thank you to the behind-the-scenes heroes, our staff and volunteers, for making it all happen! 👏

You can still register to attend the Irish VC Live Podcast, sponsored by BVP and the IVCA_ie at NovaUCD on 12 June (12 pm to 2 pm) via eventbrite.ie/e/the-irish-vc… Beyondbmi TechIreland

We are delighted to welcome Liam Cronin to NovaUCD this morning as UCD's new Director of Innovation. In this key leadership role he will be responsible for driving innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation of research outputs. ucd.ie/innovation/new… KTI Connect

💙💛 University College Dublin rises to 118 in latest QS World University Rankings 🔹 A rise of eight places since last year 🔹Ranked 49th in the world and No. 1 in Ireland for Sustainability University College Dublin is ranked 118th in the latest QS World University Rankings

Congrats to Athena an early-stage start-up developing an AI coaching tool to help candidates perform confidently and authentically at job, or other high-stake, interviews, on winning the 2025 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition. Find out more - ucd.ie/innovation/new…

UCD spin-out Licovolt is set to create 10 new jobs following seed investment from Davencor Holdings. This will enable Licovolt to rapidly advance its technology development roadmap given the scale of the global opportunity for the company's technology. ucd.ie/innovation/new…

💙💛A planned €87 million expansion of sports facilities at University College Dublin is now underway The development is the second phase of the UCD Student Sports and Amenity Precinct Project, and will see the construction of a new three-storey multipurpose sports hall beside

ODOS, an Irish agtech start-up and a joint UCD-TCD spin-out, has closed a €680k funding round, to drive sustainability in the agri-food sector and expand its technological capabilities and enter new markets. ucd.ie/innovation/new… TechIreland KTI Connect

🚜🙌 Many congrats to agri-sustainability start-up ODOS on raising €680,000 in funding. A joint spin-out from UCD and Trinity College Dublin, ODOS is helping co-operatives and farmers measure, report, and verify their environmental impact. Already active across Europe, this

.University College Dublin welcomes today’s news that Ireland has become an associate member of CERN UCD Physics researchers play a leading role in the Irish community already active there, which will now expand due to the opportunities that membership will bring. ucd.ie/research/news/…

Head Diagnostics, an Irish medtech company headquartered at NovaUCD, has signed an exclusive global licence with Philips for a novel digital cognitive assessment platform developed by the health conglomerate. Find out more - ucd.ie/innovation/new… TechIreland

Great to see NestiFi a new AI-powered platform investment platform founded by Niall Dennehy, which allows parents, grandparents, relatives and friends to invest in a child’s future as a group, feature as today Innovator to Watch via The Irish Times. irishtimes.com/business/innov…

Novel control payload designed by University College Dublin EIRSAT-1 engineering team successfully demonstrates advanced satellite pointing in space 🛰️ Breakthrough wave-based control platform represents a leap forward for #CubeSat missions ucd.ie/research/news/… UCD College of Engineering & Architecture UCD Innovation

Congrats Sports Impact Technologies on securing €650k in pre-seed funding to accelerate the roll-out of its sports wearable that detects head impacts in real-time to enhance player safety & performance by eliminating undetected concussions. ucd.ie/innovation/new… Enterprise Ireland TechIreland

Feeling right at home in Ireland thanks to the strong agricultural heritage we share. Today, we’re at Lyons Farm, University College Dublin’s research and teaching farm which promotes science-driven education and innovation for the agri-food industry. 🇮🇪

It’s such a privilege to share Iowa's story in Dublin at the One Health x Ag Tech Summit, especially when it's about Iowa State University’s role in keeping our state at the forefront of agricultural innovation.