Welcome to CCI!
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) is an informal education and public engagement (EPE) project led by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in partnership with the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Sligo, University College Cork (UCC), Tyndall National Institute and Lifetime Lab. We spark conversations about the science of energy!
Secondary School Workshops
Our Informal Chemistry Education workshops are run by trained researchers from our partner institutions. They are aimed at Transition Year and Leaving Cert (5th and 6th Yr) students.
Thanks to the support from Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, there is no cost to you, your school or your students and we will arrange the workshop around your timetable. All new bookings are automatically added to our waiting list. We will get in touch via email as soon as we can to confirm dates and times.
Public Engagement Events
We have “sparked conversations” with over incredible 20k people at public events to date which include the Cork Carnival of Science, the Dublin Maker Festival, the National and World Ploughing Championships in Laois, the Cork Science Festival, the Sligo Science Festival, Ballina Salmon Festival, Boyle Arts Festival and the ESB Science Blast in Dublin.
All of our public engagement activities are run by trained scientific researchers from our partner institutions and are suitable for all ages! We provide hands-on activities and spark conversations about the chemistry of green energy storage.
Huge thanks to the organizers of all the public engagement events that we have been part of to date as well as Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland for their continued support.
Project Updates
The Sound of Chemistry
Our summer public engagement activities are now getting into a lovely rhythm! Previous to the CCI project, the majority of our public engagement activities were based around science themed events, like the Cork Carnival of Science, Science Week and Dublin Maker. These events are fantastic and we always engage with huge numbers of people of…
Chemistry at the Carnival
Now that we’ve finished our school workshops for another academic year, we return to our public engagement programme for the summer. First on our list this summer was the Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerarlds park in Cork City on the 7th and 8th of June. This is one of our biggest annual events and…
Schools Out!
The 2024/2025 academic year has now concluded for CCI school workshops, and it was the busiest year yet. For the first time since CCI started in 2022, our team of enthusiastic PhD researchers engaged with over a thousand students in a single academic year. They visited Transition Year and Leaving Cert students in 40 schools…
Social Media
We use three different platforms to showcase our work, promote our project, promote our PhD researchers and engage with everyone about the science of green energy. We mainly use our Twitter to engage with schools, teachers and the general public for the most part, we use our Instagram to engage with students, schools and teachers, and we use our Linkedin page to showcase the great work that our PhD ambassadors are doing.
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 