Press Releases
EMPOWER Women’s Entrepreneurship Programme To Be Rolled Out To Three More Counties
EMPOWER, the women’s entrepreneurship programme delivered in GMIT’s Innovation Hubs to women in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, has been allocated over €300,000 in funding to extend delivery of the successful programme to counties Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim. The funding is part of an overall €1.5m...
Remote Working and Wellness is Focus of GMIT Mayo ‘Digital West’ 2020
Now in its third year, GMIT Mayo’s Digital West event will take place on Tuesday 28 January 2020. Organised by academic staff in collaboration with the GMIT Innovation Hub and in partnership with external business support agencies, this year's event will focus on remote working, wellness and...
Group of aspiring entrepreneurs commence New Frontiers course in GMIT
GMIT New Frontier Phase II Participants 2019 A group of people with innovative start-up ideas have commenced the New Frontiers (Phase II) Entrepreneurship Programme delivered by GMIT at its Innovation Hubs in Galway and Mayo. Tony O’Kelly, GMIT New Frontiers Manager, says: “These start-ups...
‘Cookalicous’ Start Up wins EMPOWER pitch competition
The second cohort of women entrepreneurs on the EMPOWER Start Programme in GMIT iHubs marked their completion of the course by taking part in a final pitch session, Dragons Den style, in the GMIT Galway campus recently (14 January). Fifteen women pitched their business to a panel of judges...
GMIT Mayo ‘Digital West’ to focus on design
Design and digital experts to address event on 29 January in GMIT Mayo Now in its second year, GMIT Mayo’s 'Digital West' event will take place on Tuesday, 29 January. Organised by academic staff in collaboration with the GMIT Innovation Hub located on campus, this year's event will focus on...
iHubs Launch Second Cycle of EMPOWER
Childcare issues and personal tax policy decisions influence women returning to the workforce Figures from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor show that Irish women rank eighth in Europe for early-stage entrepreneurial activity. The rate for Irish men is the fourth highest in Europe. In Ireland,...
Artificial Intelligence Conference Hosted By GMIT iHubs Mayo
The Innovation Hub (iHub) in GMIT Mayo is hosting a full-day conference on “Artificial Intelligence and how this disruptive technology is going to change everything", next Tuesday 20 November. This free event is open to all. Leading AI experts will discuss this transformative technology and how AI...
Minister Heather Hunphreys Turns The Sod On GMIT iHub Extension
The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, TD, today (Thursday 9 August) turned the first sod on the site of the new extension to GMIT’s Innovation Hub (iHub) at the GMIT Galway campus. This extension will double the size of the Innovation Hub to about 2,400 m2,...
Irish Medtech Solutions Company Opens New Office in GMIT iHub
i360medical, a leading Irish based international healthcare solutions and medical device company, has announced the opening of a new Galway office, based in the Innovation Hubs (iHubs) at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The company has existing offices in Dublin (HQ) and New York....
Business Students Help iHub Client Companies Find BIS Solutions As Part Of Their Degree Studies
GMIT Business students on the B.Sc. in Business Information Systems (BIS) degree programme completed valuable work for a number of client companies in GMIT’s Innovation Hub over the past few months as part of their degree programme. The students’ work was for a module entitled ‘Professional...
