NUI Galway has this morning (Thursday ) outlined a new strategy which places the institution as a central driver of transformational change for Galway and the West of Ireland.
The new strategy, titled “Shared Vision, Shaped by Values”, has been developed following extensive dialogue with students, academics, alumni, policymakers, and the wider community, marks a new approach for NUI Galway, and places the shared values of respect, excellence, openness and sustainability as the guiding light for the future direction of the University.
The strategy will see NUI Galway focus on its continued contribution to enhancing policy and society, enriching creativity, improving health and wellbeing, realising potential through data and enabling technologies, data science and sustaining our planet and people.
With these strengths, NUI Galway will lead through its contribution to the region’s international reputation as a recognised centre of excellence for medical technologies, data science, culture and creativity, climate and oceans, and public policy.
President of NUI Galway, Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, said this morning at the launch in the city that NUI Galway is a university with no gates.
“Our location at the very edge of Europe gives us a unique perspective and an opportunity. Our regional footprint is the largest of any university in Ireland spanning the Atlantic seaboard. Galway is the most international city in Ireland.
“Our uniqueness means we can work in ways others cannot. At the edge, we look at the world from a different angle. Between sea and land, we see the horizon every day and, like all great explorers, all great adventurers, we wonder what’s on the other side.
“This places us in an international context and enhanced co-operation with other international institutions, from this place and for this purpose, will also therefore be a focus of our new strategy.
“NUI Galway is a public good, belonging to the people. In this strategy and in these times, we will use our location for the benefit of Ireland as an institution formed by values. Our research, our teaching and our engagement – with our students and our staff – has purpose, evoking also our sense of people and place, further contributing profoundly to the sustainability and development of culture, creative industries, data science, medical technologies, marine ecology and our economy.
