TUS is a multi-campus university spread across seven campuses throughout Ireland’s Midwest and Midlands region. With principal campuses at Limerick and Athlone, we benefit from an already strong and vibrant history of education and learning in the wider region, and will continue to play our part in sustaining and enhancing this identity for generations to come.
By providing a healthy supply of high-quality graduates and an additional focal point for growth and innovation, we can help regional development take a big step forward. And for our nation, a technological university in the heart of Ireland adds a new dimension to education in our country, demonstrating a commitment to shared values like inclusivity, accessibility, and supportiveness.
Our continuous focus on partnership, innovation and staying agile shows we understand the importance of working with key stakeholders across industry and society. And with more than 15,000 students enrolling in hundreds of courses every year across four counties, our story has only just begun. TUS is a multi-campus university spread across seven campuses throughout Ireland’s Midwest and Midlands region. With principal campuses at Limerick and Athlone, we benefit from an already strong and vibrant history of education and learning in the wider region, and will continue to play our part in sustaining and enhancing this identity for generations to come.
By providing a healthy supply of high-quality graduates and an additional focal point for growth and innovation, we can help regional development take a big step forward. And for our nation, a technological university in the heart of Ireland adds a new dimension to education in our country, demonstrating a commitment to shared values like inclusivity, accessibility, and supportiveness.
Our continuous focus on partnership, innovation and staying agile shows we understand the importance of working with key stakeholders across industry and society. And with more than 15,000 students enrolling in hundreds of courses every year across four counties, our story has only just begun.
The University of Padua is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning. It was founded in 1222, along with such universities as Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge. With over 70,000 students (over 7,000 international students) and 2,200 teaching staff within its 32 departments, and 8 schools, the University also employees over 2,400 technical administrators.
For some time now, The University of Padua has enjoyed a high-ranking position in both Italian and international ranking agencies for its quality of teaching, research activities and student services.
In the past few years, the University of Padova obtained over 100 million Euro of contribution from framework programs and structural funds and carried hundreds of projects in partnerships with institution and companies from all over the world.
The project work will be carried out at the Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) and the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE).
Digiotouch (DIGI) is a fast-growing deep tech SME performing R&D at the intersection of Cloud, AI, and Sustainability. DIGI’s core competence is to digitize customers' legacy business processes, operations, and assets using two core products - Cloud based, secure Paradise Platform and Digiotouch Edge. The company provides open standard based digital solutions powering next-gen devices and services for the EU Digital Single Market initiative. The Paradise Platform includes several common service functions (e.g. remote monitoring, device management, visualization, end-to-end security, secure storage, privacy), and “Digiotouch Academy” - a Digital Learning Hub to educate the next-gen workforce on Digital Transformation. DIGI has been one of the winners of the EU Datathon 2018 competition. The ground-breaking industrial research & innovation activities of the company has received funding from 9 EU-funded Horizon Europe and H2020 projects including MAGICBIOMAT, DS2, ReGreeneration, BIAS, ZEROW, and upPE-T. In addition to industrial R&D, DIGI has strong experience in market research, business development, product commercialization, and sustainability assessment. The Research and Technology Development (RTD) team of DIGI will be involved in this project. The team provides expertise regarding strategically important areas to ensure the company’s technological future and safeguard its business operations. Against the background of megatrends such as European Green Deal, climate change, urbanization, globalization, and demographic change, RTD team focuses on technical disruptions in business areas that are of interest to DIGI.
The French Industrial Technical Center (CTI) for Plastics and Composites, known as IPC, plays a key role in promoting and innovating plastic and composite materials and processes. With its expertise and network of experts spread across the country, IPC actively supports industrial companies in various areas, from the study and establishment of protocols to feasibility and technology transfer. IPC collaborates with more than 300 industrial companies, as well as other cutting-edge technical centers and academic laboratories, on collaborative or resourcing projects:
IPC has the skills and technical platforms to carry out this research at varying levels of maturity, from laboratory scale to industrial scale, including demonstrator scales (TRL 3 to TRL 6):
IPC's research activities are focused on three strategic areas outlined in its 2020-2024 Objectives and Performance Contract roadmap.
