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At its monthly Board meeting held last week, Connemara West wished Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) every success in its recent application as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) to establish a technological university in Connacht/Ulster. The application was made to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD. In addition to GMIT, the Alliance comprises the Institute of Technology Sligo, and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is to expand its research capacity with the addition of GMIT as an academic partner.

Mayo TD for Sinn Féin, Rose Conway-Walsh TD, has welcomed the submission of the application by the Connacht Ulster Alliance for the formation of a Technological University in the West/North West. Sinn Féin spokesperson on Further and Higher Education, Conway-Walsh said: "Making Castlebar a University Town is now within reach and will be a game changer for the County Town.

The Castlebar campus of GMIT will play a leading role in the future of the institution as it moves towards university status - as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance Technical University plan - according to GMIT president, Dr Orla Flynn.

EMPOWER, the women’s entrepreneurship programme delivered in GMIT’s Innovation Hubs to women in Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon, has been allocated over €300,000 in funding to extend delivery of the successful programme to counties Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim.

The Connacht Ulster Alliance, comprising GMIT, IT Sligo, and LyIT, has launched a college application tool that recognises learning gained through life and work experiences that enables advanced entry to third level programmes.