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Expanded Lero software research centre opens in Limerick

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Lero director Prof Mike Hinchey

23 November 2015

The revamped SFI software research centre Lero was officially opened by Minister for Education & Skills Jan O’Sullivan at the University of Limerick today.

The expanded centre will receive a combined €46.4 million in supports over the next six years from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), EU Structural Funds and private industry, leading to the creation of 90 PhD and 46 postdoctoral research positions.

The epanded centre now incorporates researchers from UCC and NUI Maynooth, meaning all Irish universities and Dundalk IT are represented facility.

Under the new investment programme, Lero has broadened its research scope from purely software engineering to a wider range of software disciplines including cyber security, Internet of Things, cloud computing, medical devices and smart cities.

Lero already works with multinational industry partners such as IBM, Fidelity Investments and Microsoft. Indigenous research projects are being implemented with local companies including S3 Group, Statsports and Tullow Oil.

“As a result of investments like this, Ireland can become recognised as a global centre for software research with major benefits for the economy,” said Prof Mike Hinchey, director, Lero.  “Software is at the heart of the most exciting developments in technology as we see the digital and physical worlds increasingly integrate. Today, software is everywhere and our quality of life and economic wellbeing depend on it.”

Minister O’Sullivan added: “The collaboration of the best academic brains from all the country’s universities is unique in Ireland and rare worldwide. “This new investment in Lero is an important part of the national infrastructure that will help to attract and retain the world’s leading technology companies in Ireland as well as providing access to a world class software research centre for over 1,000 indigenous tech firms.”

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