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As you read this article now and tonight as you sleep, out at sea lies much of the hardware that informs the learning of the Marine Institute. Out there, where nobody goes but the brave and the birds, bob the weather and data buoys that captured the ferocity of the recent storm that lashed the west coast of Ireland.

The Marine Institute is currently hosting its annual transition year training week.

A multidisciplinary team of students primarily from colleges in the west has won the Irish leg of Invent for the Planet (IFTP) 2025 for their plastic brick prototype solution titled “Creating sustainable housing solutions for expanding poverty areas”.

The countdown is on for the Ocean Knowledge 2030 Conference, with this landmark event taking place on November 20-21, at the RDS Concert Hall, Dublin. Organised by the Marine Institute, the conference will gather leading experts from across Ireland and Europe to advance ocean research, policy, and innovation, ensuring a sustainable future for our seas.

The Marine Institute’s evening of marine-themed music, drama, art and poetry on Friday 20th September for Culture Night 2024 attracted a full house.

Oranmore’s drama group Bualadh Bos will perform the one-act play Adrift by George Infini. This dark comedy centres on three men who must put aside their differences after being set adrift after a failed mutiny, and await rescue.

Ivan McPhillips, GMIT Business School lecturer, and co-founder of the GMIT Youth Entrepreneur Summer Camp, has won the 2021 Enterprise Ireland Academic Award in recognition of his involvement in and the promotion of the annual Student Entrepreneur Awards competition since 1997.

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

Students from Salerno Secondary School Galway and Colaiste Bhaile Chlair have won awards in the National Final of this year’s Student Enterprise Programme.