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The funding will enable Trinity to transform, digitise and safeguard its herbarium by providing physical infrastructure and enable the digitisation of 400,000 specimens, some of which are centuries old – making them easily accessible to the international research community as well as the public.
The funding of €1.5m will provide physical infrastructure and enable the digitisation of the herbarium’s 400,000 plant specimens.
An agri-tech start-up has received €1.3 million to accelerate its use of microbes to produce healthier plants, and reduce fertiliser use
Based at NovaUCD, CropBiome will use the fresh funding to create new roles and launch its products by mid-2025.
This year’s Trinity Innovation Awards went to researchers working in a wide range of areas, from flooding to neuroscience.