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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)
EU Transparency Register
579735319590-03 First registered on 04 Dec 2015
Goals / Remit
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) is the leading higher education and research organisation in the Western, Northern and Midland regions of Ireland. It has a student population of over 20,000, with over a 1,000 studying at MSc/PhD levels. NUI Galway although a relative young, but rapidly expanding, research-led University and has an overall ranking of 271st in the QS world university rankings for 2015 and in the range of 250-275 in the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2015/2016.
NUI Galway's mission is to foster a vibrant community of students and staff, where distinguished learning, impactful research, and creative thinking are shared with the world.
Our vision is that NUI Galway will be a leading global university, renowned for our distinctive areas of research, recognised as an institution of choice
for our teaching and scholarship, celebrated for our outstanding engagement with wider society, and enriched by a dynamic network of partnerships.
The activities and work of NUI Galway are underpinned by five core values:
• Ambition – we share a drive for excellence and leadership, working to a
common purpose with confidence in our mission
• Creativity – inspired by our unique location, a distinctive spirit of creativity
imbues everything we do
• Impact – our engagement and actions will make a meaningful difference in
Galway, across the country, and around the world
• Collaboration – strong, mutually-beneficial partnerships are at the heart of
our approach, as we engage locally and internationally
• Integrity – building on our rich heritage, we value openness, diversity and
good citizenshipMain EU files targeted
Over the past ten years the University has invested heavily (excess of 400 million Euro) in its research & teaching infrastructure. The most recent additions are the Institute for Lifecourse and Society (ILAS) and the Lambe Institute for Translational Research and HRB Clinical Research Facility. ILAS opened in November 2015 and is a newly designated research institute for the applied social sciences at NUI Galway. The Institute supports applied research that informs policy development and practice to make a positive difference to people’s lives. ILAS brings together existing work in relation to targeted populations, such as older persons, children and families, and persons with disabilities into one domain of research, teaching and policy. The core function of the Institute is the pursuit of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences by creatively integrating the rich and diverse intellectual resources from within the University and beyond. The Lambe Institute for Translational Research and HRB Clinical Research Facility at University Hospital opened in September 2015. The co-location of these two facilities in one building on hospital grounds will mean basic laboratory research conducted in the translational research facility can be evaluated in clinical trials in the clinical research facility and ultimately benefit patients faster.
Current Research Income
In 2014, University income was €209 million of which €55 million was from externally funded research. In Horizon 2020, NUI Galway has the highest success rate among Irish universities at 21.8%. Already, 39 different projects have been funded which has brought more than €19.5 million to NUI Galway. (The total EC funding for these projects comes to more than €135 million). These European awards included successes in ERC, Marie Curie, Cooperation and Capacities programmes.
Current involvement in Research and Training Programmes
NUI Galway is currently coordinating four Horizon2020 ITNs:
• Tendon Therapy Train, Co-ordinator: Dimitrios Zeugolis
• BrainMat Train, Co-ordinator: Abhay Pandit
• List_MAPS, Co-ordinator: Conor O Byrne
• TRAIN-ERS, Co-ordinator: Afshin Samali
NUI Galway also places a strong focus on providing a supportive and exciting environment for its researchers and was awarded the “HR Excellence in Research” logo by the European Commission in late 2013. To date, NUI Galway has been awarded five Marie Curie Individual Fellowships under H2020.
NUI Galway researchers are also partners and coordinators on multiple awards across Societal Challenges, Industrial Leadership, and Excellent Science. These awards have been secured by researchers in the following Schools and Colleges at NUI Galway: Political Science and Sociology, Business and Economics, Medicine, Law, Engineering and Informatics, Psychology, Physics, Natural Sciences, ICHEC, History, Chemistry, Geography and Archaelogy, Nursing and Midwifery.Address
Head Office
University Road
Newcastle
Galway
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
3.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The number of persons included above relate to the three current members of the Research Office European Funding Team 100% FTEs and Principal Investigators (researchers) at NUI Galway involved in the Photonics 21 European Technology Platform and nominated to the mHealth Working Group.
Person in charge of EU relations
Lupton Gary (Head of International Programmes)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Peter Feeney (University Solicitor)
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Academic institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
9,373,442 € (Source: EU research grants including H2020)
Other financial info
These costs include an estimated proportion of the time of the three European Funding Team members along with the estimated costs associated with the European Technology Platform.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
As stated above, NUI Galway researchers are encouraged to participate in European Technology Platforms. One of our leading researchers is a member of Photonics 21, for example.
NUI Galway is interested in playing a greater role in the development of mHealth policy and has recently nominated one of our stellar researchers, Dr Jane Walsh, as a member of the European Commission's working group on mHealth assessment guidelines.ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
NUI Galway is actively involved in European Commission funding calls. We have a dedicated European Funding Team that liaise with our researchers, Ireand's National Contact Points and the Research Programme Officers in Brussels in aligning our researchers with the most relevant call topics and networks. In particular, leading researchers at NUI Galway are encouraged to participate in Technology Platforms to engage with fellow key opinion leaders across Europe in the identification and development of new call topics.
NUI Galway has many research strengths, one of which is mHealth.
In June 2015, NUI Galway hosted the inaugural conference on mHealth in an event funded by the Irish Research Council. This conference was led by mHealth multidisciplinary research group in NUI Galway (http://www.nuigalway.ie/psychology/mHealth.html) to develop research networks and capacity in this area. This event was a huge success attracting over 100 key stakeholders in the area of technology, biomedical engineering, medicine, social sciences, health services exective, industry and pharmaceutical from all over Ireland and abroad. Funding from the IRC allowed the organising committee to invite world leaders (and potential collaborators) in the area of mHealth to give keynotes and lead a discussion panel to develop new research ideas and networks leading to grant applications. As a result of this event, over ten grant applications and five publications were submitted directly as a result of the conference (five of these applications were H2020) and several more are currently underway.
There is a strong emphasis on mobile technology and Health and Wellbeing in the current Horizon 2020 funding call. mHealth and health behaviour change are highly innovative areas of research with enormous potential and NUI Galway is interested in playing a leading role in the development and shaping of European policy and research in this space.Other activities
In addition to the European Technology Platforms mentioned above, researchers at NUI Galway actively engage in communications and dissemination activities to further discussions, debate and consensus on topics of interest.
For example, Dr Jane Walsh has engaged in the following communication and dissemination activities recently:
ICT Horizon 2020 Conference in October 2015 Lisbon (Dr Walsh presented at this event on research on mHealth in NUI Galway).
ICT Horizon 2020 proposer’s day, October 2014 Florence
H2020 Information Day 'Health & Wellbeing' Brussels, Sept 2015.
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 08 Feb 2017 Location BERL 10/394 Subject ROSEnet COST Action - Reducing Old-Age Exclusion in Europe: Collaborations in Research and Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen Portfolio Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Attending - Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Task Force for Better Implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu Portfolio Regional Policy Attending - Tomas Nejdl (Cabinet member)
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