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 allContinue reading “New Year, New Schools”
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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 theContinue reading “Sharing Best Practise”
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 wasContinue reading “Hitting Our Stride”
Making all the Right Moves
For 2025, Dublin Maker moved venues, taking over the Leopardstown Racecourse in South Dublin! As a result, we finished our summer with the busiest ever Dublin Maker – with 1,234 responses on our HappyorNot smiley face stand, which is the largest we have collected at any event throughout the CCI project. Well done to ourContinue reading “Making all the Right Moves”
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 ofContinue reading “The Sound of Chemistry”
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 andContinue reading “Chemistry at the Carnival”
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 schoolsContinue reading “Schools Out!”
Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast
Our first public engagement events for 2025 took place at the start of March, with teams of researchers from Cork, Sligo and Dublin all chipping in. The Cork based CCI team from UCC Chemistry and Tyndall demonstrated how to make a battery for the Lifetime Lab Engineers Open day on Sunday the 2nd of March.Continue reading “Engineers Day and ESB Science Blast”
School Workshops are back for 2025!
Our teams of researchers from Cork, Dublin and Sligo are back on the road visiting schools all over Ireland for 2025. The workshops are ideal for TY and Leaving Cert students with a variety of skills developed over the course of the visit. We also provide a Q&A at the end of every session whereContinue reading “School Workshops are back for 2025!”
CCI Symposium 2025
We kicked off a new calendar year with our project symposium, inviting all project partners to Trinity College Dublin to discuss the data we have collected so far, test out some new TY activities, take part in some training and network with colleagues. We had a number of presenters over the two days which included:Continue reading “CCI Symposium 2025”
Current Chemistry Investigators (CCI) 