Prof Tiziana Margaria

Minister announces €5.87m investment in immersive software

R@ISE project an example of effective collaboration between academia and industry
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Prof Tiziana Margaria

4 April 2023

Minister of State for Skills and Further Education, Niall Collins, TD, has today announced a €5.87 million investment in a University of Limerick-led research project investigating low-code/no-code approaches in software engineering, where developers can design applications with no to minimum knowledge in coding.

Currently, governments worldwide have been using LC/NC tools to manage the spread of Covid-19. The LC/NC approaches would be used to speed up the delivery of software applications. It is predicted that LC methods will account for over 65% of application development activity by 2024.

R@ISE (Research at Immersive Software Engineering) has been awarded €2.3 million from Science Foundation Ireland, which will be matched by partners such as Analog Devices, Stripe, Tines, Johnson & Johnson, and Limerick City and County Council. The Project will be led by Prof Tiziana Margaria, Chair of Software Systems and co-director of Immersive Software Engineering at the University of Limerick.

The proposed research will directly produce an advanced software development and integration platform, in collaboration with the industry and international partners, co-designed by 22 PhD students and four postdoctoral fellows and help to mitigate the current challenge of a shortage of software developers to support digital transformation. The research also supports UL’s Immersive Software Engineering BSc and MSc programme, and it is hoped the research will be strategically relevant for Ireland and the global economy.

Prof Tiziana Margaria, the R@ISE project leader, said: “The new low-code/no-code (LC/NC) model-driven approach – as proposed by R@ISE – is an alternative to conventional software development where developers, as well as non-developers, are equipped with the tools to design, develop, verify and deploy applications quickly and with none to minimum coding requirements.”

Prof Philip Nolan, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland, said: “The R@ISE project is an excellent example of effective collaboration between academia and industry, where both partners can benefit, and neither can achieve the ambitious joint research objectives alone. The project adopts a really innovative approach to software engineering that is agile and adaptable and, at the same time, reliable and robust.”

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