Dublin City University (DCU)
Dublin City University (DCU) is Ireland’s University of Enterprise, located in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city. DCU offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees of the highest international quality with research opportunities in technology, engineering, business, communications, humanities and science and health. Nearly 12,000 students study across four faculties: DCU Business School, Engineering & Computing, Humanities & Social Sciences and Science & Health. DCU boasts over 41,000 alumni worldwide, located in all corners of the globe. Alumni Chapters are active in cities such as London, Paris, Madrid, New York, Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo.
DCU’s research focuses on activities that can make a difference to problems that matter to industry and society from nanotechnology and water purity to violent online extremism and early cancer detection. As well as securing significant national government and European Union funding, DCU’s business-friendly attitude to collaboration with enterprise has resulted in industry partners such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Samsung, Wyeth, Microsoft and IBM.
People involved in this project
John Judge (Head of Research Development and EU Research Programme Manager)
Andy Way (Professor)
Aoife Brady (EU Research Project Officer)