For the first time our researchers at Trinity College Dublin took the lead to run a very busy stand at the European Researchers Night festival on campus in September. The European Researchers’ Night is the largest science outreach event in Europe. In 2024 and 2025, 58 projects ran across 25 countries.
Universities and research institutes across Europe opened their doors and shared their work through presentations, experiments, games, discussions and other interactive formats. We welcomed everyone behind the scenes, to meet researchers and discover how the seemingly abstract world of science is already affecting everyone’s life.
The European Researchers’ Night shows how researchers’ work affects our daily lives and brings research and researchers closer to the public, attracting over 1.5 million visitors across Europe and beyond each year. It promotes excellent research projects across Europe and beyond and aims to increase the interest of young people in science and research careers.
The researchers setup and ran the entire stand themselves, led by Bláitín and Lucy. The feedback they received was entirely positive with no negative responses. Well done to Bláitín, Lucy, Karlijn, Joshua, Sophie and Niamh who sat with over 100 people to talk about batteries, green energy and their own research. Photos credit to Bláithín Rawson.
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