MTU to support entrepreneurs through €3.5m New Frontiers programme
Apr 27, 2021 13:04
By radiokerrynews
Photoshoot MTU Tralee - 23.4.21 Pictured at the Launch of the announcment of €3.5m funding by Enterprise Ireland for New Frontiers Delivered by MTU are Pictured are Emily Reen - New Frontiers Programme Manager MTU Kerry Campus, Daniel Barrett - Global Head of Sales Wazp & MTU Graduate, Maria Panuli - Global Head of Marketing Wazp & MTU Graduate.
Funded by Enterprise Ireland, Munster Technological University (MTU) will spend €3.5m over the next five years on the New Frontiers Programme to support hundreds of entrepreneurs and to deliver 75 new companies in the South West Region. This is a substantial injection of funding for the New Frontiers programme and is a recognition of its broad reach across the South West with delivery being available on both MTU campuses, The Tom Crean Business Centre in Tralee, and The Rubicon Centre in Cork.
Saving marine mammals? Sounds like a plan for this Cork scientist
Emer Keaveney is the Cork marine biologist behind a new acoustic project that will record marine mammals and explore how noise pollution of the oceans is affecting them, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE
Marine biologist Emer Keaveney, from Blackrock, who is behind a new acoustic project.
Ellie O’Byrne
MARINE biology might be one of the most over-romanticised careers on the planet, but Cork woman Emer Keaveney is here to inject a shot of realism into how people view her job.
For her UCC undergraduate thesis, Emer spent three months “washing seal poo, basically,” she says with a laugh.
A Cork-based legal software provider
PracticeEvolve Group has announced the acquisition of UK-based Solicitors Own Software (SOS) which has 17,000 existing users across the UK.
PracticeEvolve (previously known as Documatics Software) provides mid-tier law firms with cloud file storage and has more than 16,000 users.
PracticeEvolve was started by David Boland from Mitchelstown, Co Cork in 2003. It previously did business from the Rubicon Centre, near CIT but now has offices at River House, Blackpool Retail Park, Cork City. According to documents filed at the Companies Registration Office ‘Practice Evolve Ltd’ increased its net assets to €871k for the year ended 30 June 2019, which was up from €442k for the prior year quoted. The same documents also say the parent company is now based in Australia.