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Catalyst is a science and technology hub focused on developing the country’s tech industry and has appointed three industry leaders

Former SFI head Prof Mark Ferguson is one of the trio joining the board of Catalyst, along with Jeanette Walker and Paul Hannigan.

New funding ensures long-term sustainability of CAIN archive in Derry The funding will directly support a significant modernisation of the site, including the introduction of cutting-edge archival content management systems © Eamon Melaugh (http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/melaugh/) Reporter: );  ); Ulster University (UU) has confirmed that its highly regarded CAIN archive at Magee will be retained as a live and curated resource thanks to a generous donation from Initiatives of Change. The funding ...

Cain has been a free online resource since March 1997.

The future of a long-running Troubles archive has been secured. Cain is an online collection of information and materials related to Northern Ireland’s troubled past and politics. Now a donation by Initiatives of Change will enable it to be sustainable as a live, curated archive, the Ulster University has announced. The future of Cain, an online archive of the Northern Ireland’s Troubles has been saved with new funding (Cain/PA) It comes after a campaign by the university and Cain to secure...

First published on Wed 17 Feb 2021 08.40 EST A non-profit organisation based in Switzerland has secured the future of a leading archive about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Conflict Archive on the Internet (Cain) website had faced crippling cuts because Ulster University, which hosts the archive at its Derry campus, said it could not afford to keep it going. Academics said that would represent intellectual vandalism of a free historical memory bank of data, stories and images used by sch...

Funding will also support significant modernisation of the Cain website