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The next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club will take place on Wednesday July 7 in GMIT’s Castlebar campus. The topic for the meeting will be ‘the use of social media for business.’

The Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation have officially launched a new scholarship programme for students of GMIT Castlebar Campus which will be funded through the collection of unwanted mobile phones. The new scholarships, valued at €1,000 each, will be awarded to students who have played an active part in fundraising and awareness raising for charities, with these students nominated by staff and students of the Castlebar Campus and the winner selected by an independent panel.

“Creating opportunity in a downturn – Innovate or Die!” will be the theme of next week’s meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club, and the key speaker will be a Mayo man who has carved out a business niche in outer space.

The GMIT Castlebar Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC) has announced the winners of the GMIT Innovation Awards 2010.

This year during the Valentine’s celebrations the students’ union in GMIT, Castlebar will welcome Noel Gibbons, road safety officer for Mayo County Council, to distribute information on the latest campaign for responsible driving. The hard hitting campaign will warn students that more girls die as passengers than as drivers. “Take care when you’re out as a couple - don’t hurt the one you love,” is the message being delivered at the Castlebar campus.

An innovation programme for Mayo, the Higher Certificate in Business in Enterprise Development, has been launched by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and the Innovation in Business Centre at GMIT Castlebar.

A new course of night classes in creative writing will commence in GMIT Castlebar for the spring. The course runs one night a week for 12 weeks and each class lasts two hours. The classes will suit beginners and improvers.

GMIT Castlebar has announced its student innovation winners. First prize went to Joanne Clarke from Cloonfad, Co Roscommon, a second year student on the BSc in architectural technology. She was awarded a prize of €1,000 cash and incubation space in the GMIT Innovation Centre for two months. Second prize was awarded to Diarmuid Higgins from Rush, Co Dublin, who is a second year student on the BA in outdoor education. He won €600. Both prizes are sponsored by APC and AIB.

GMIT has admitted that following a review of programmes in all campuses some courses in Castlebar may have to be suspended because of the acute decline in the construction sector.

Following what Labour candidate Dr Bernie Courtney describes as “having ruffled a few feathers” at GMIT, Castlebar, leading to her being informed that she would be removed from the liaison committee of GMIT Castlebar Campus, Dr Courtney has in fact been given unanimous support from the Mayo VEC committee last Thursday night. The committee, who reserve the function to appoint and remove members, instructed that Dr Courtney would continue as its representative in GMIT and to attend the next meeting of the liaison committee which took place on Wednesday.