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Private sector companies in Galway are being encouraged to apply to a new training fund, announced this week by Skillnets, the national training and upskilling body. The €500,000 fund is open for applications until April 30 2013.

Claire Flynn, an employee with Hewlett Packard, Galway, was the winner of the Institute of Project Management’s (IPMA) western region Project Management Graduate of the Year award for 2012.

A well-known local science advocate believes that Galway should emulate its international status as an arts city by striving to become the European equivalent of California’s Silicon Valley.

Leading Galway-based Apple reseller Screenway has just moved into a new office space in Parkmore, Ballybrit, in the heart of Galway's digital community.

As part of a series of Fáilte Ireland web supports for the industry, a web conference for B&B operators - “Optimise Your B&B Business on the Web” was held at Galway’s Carlton Hotel this week. The conference is the first in a series of targeted supports which Fáilte Ireland is promoting to the B&B industry in the West, as part of a deliberate effort to revitalise the Irish home B&B sector.

Mayo Ideas Week 2012 was officially launched by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at Mount Falcon Hotel, Ballina, on Monday September 3. Mayo Ideas Week is a series of idea generation, entrepreneurship, and business events hosted by the development and enterprise support agencies in Mayo. Admission is free to the 13 events which will be held all over the county from Monday September 17 to Friday September 21.

Local Galway city weather is now available on your smartphone via an android app. The app arose from a collaboration between the disciplines of information technology and civil engineering at NUI Galway. The weather data is provided by the IRUSE research group at NUI Galway led by Dr Marcus Keane, Lecturer in Energy Systems Engineering at the University.

Galway’s secondary school should have 100 mbs broadband access by October, allowing pupils higher speed broadband internet access than before.

Students from Our Lady’s Bower have won the Abbott Runner-up Award at SciFest 2012 held at Athlone Institute of Technology. Cathy McGettigan and Elaine Rushe examined the effects of grooming on the heart rate of Connemara ponies after exercise.

The Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research in collaboration with the College of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway is hosting a one-day conference for public and private sector planners, decision makers, engineers, technology entrepreneurs, SMEs and start ups on ‘Planning for smart cities and regions of the future’.