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The WifOR Institute, an independent economics research institute and think-tank, has been awarded the ‘Guaranteed Irish’ symbol. WifOR, headquartered in Germany and operating in Galway since 2018, provides businesses, government bodies and other organisations with valid, comparable data and insightful research on a range of topics including digitalisation, education, health, innovation and R&D, labour markets, value, and sustainability.

NUI Galway will hold its annual postgraduate open day next Tuesday from 12 noon to 3pm in the Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn. This open day is an opportunity for professionals, graduates, and current undergraduates who are focusing on their future, with the aim of upgrading their qualification, broadening their skills set, increasing their specialist knowledge, and ultimately improving their job prospects and earning power.

An economics research institute headquartered in Germany and with an Irish branch in Galway has now been awarded the ‘Guaranteed Irish’ symbol.

The history of Galway as an educational centre dates from the close of the Middle Ages. The Free School of Galway became so celebrated for its classical learning that it had more than 1,200 students from all over the country attending its courses under Alexander Lynch in 1615, when it was suppressed by King James I.

Professor Timothy O'Brien, Dean of the College of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at NUI Galway and consultant endocrinologist at Galway University Hospitals, has received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award. The award was established by the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees in 1981 to acknowledge and show appreciation for exceptional contributions of Mayo Clinic alumni to the field of medicine.

Gaeltacht.net, a new research project launched at NUI Galway this week, provides a social network for Irish learners living overseas to help them make contact with fellow learners and to develop their language skills.

Galway 2020 was launched in Brussels this week at an event attended by leading Belgian travel professionals and journalists, as well as those who were at the European Week of Regions and Cities in the Belgian capital.

NUI Galway has become a designated University of Sanctuary, a movement aimed at promoting the inclusion of International Protection Applicants, refugees and Irish Travellers within the community.

A study carried out by the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics at NUI Galway has examined the problem of social media overload, which is the feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted by the amount of communication and information demands a person is exposed to through social media channels, that may require energy and cognitive processing beyond their capabilities.

“At the end of the storm there’s a golden sky” goes the famous song 'You’ll Never Walk Alone' and it’s an image that the official programme launch, last night, of Galway 2020 brought to mind.