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
New Year, New Schools
As we enter our 5th year of the CCI project, we are still visiting new schools in new parts of Ireland. 2025 finished off with some visits to schools in the North West, led by the ATU facilitators, and 2025 has now started with schools in Dublin and the North West. Well done to all…
Sharing Best Practise
Every year the entire CCI team meet up to share best practise, network and complete training and upskilling. We also use the oppertunity to share strories and ideas from our travels around Ireland. It is also a great oppertunity to provide Science Communication training and make changes to the content and evaluation components of the…
Hitting Our Stride
Over the summer of 2025 we had some staff changes for the project with Nishanth making the move from ATU Sligo to Trinity College Dublin to take over as our full-time project coordinator. Thankfully, after running CCI for 3 full academic years, the workshop and logistics are now a well oiled machine so Nishanth was…
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) 