Three Maynooth University researchers have received awards under Research Ireland's Enterprise Partnership Scheme for postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers. The funding is for projects that bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on research of mutual interest.
The MU projects address a range of challenges including the statistical modelling applied to fisheries data, improving the integration of hardware in music technology and painless bandages, in partnership with leading Canadian, French and Irish organisations.
The projects support research, networking and collaboration enabling researchers to develop new, advanced knowledge and skills, linked with their partners’ requirements. The MU researchers who received funding were:
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Scholar: Dr Hilal Kirpik of the Department of Chemistry receives nearly €113,000 for Spray-on, wash-off bandages (SOWOB): Reversible temperature-controlled polymers for painless bandage changes in Epidermolysis Bullosa, in partnership with DEBRA Ireland
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar: Rachel McInerney of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics receives €124,000 for Assessing variation in biodemographic components with improved statistical tools for fisheries management purposes, in partnership with the Québec Ministry of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (MELCCFP)
- Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar: Thibaud Keller of the Department of Music receives €124,000 for The Digital Performance Score: Hardware interfaces for elastic timelines, in partnership with French music software organisation ossia.io
Announcing the latest Enterprise Partnership Scheme awards, Research Ireland interim CEO, Celine Fitzgerald, said: "These co-funded programmes train early-career researchers for the diversity of employment opportunities in industry, the public sector and the non-government sectors."
"For enterprise partners, the schemes provide a low-risk, flexible route to research talent and innovation in an area closely aligned with their strategic interests. It’s exciting to see the broad experience and benefits that these partnerships will give to researchers and their enterprise-employer partners."
Further information is available from Research Ireland.