Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown - Research at ITB

Research At ITB

The research community at ITB is involved collaboratively with research projects with industry, community organisations and different agencies in the locality. Some of these include National Road Authority, IBM, Intel, Havoc, Wavebob, ESB, Health Service Executive, SMEs on the Innovation Voucher Scheme. As part of ITB's strategic plan 2006-2011 “Making Education Accessible” ITB recognises that one of its core activities is research and has established itself as a significant member of the research community within the third level education sector in Ireland since it opened in 1999. The LINC Centre (Learning and Innovation Centre) at ITB is the centre which supports the research activities taking place in the Institute supporting technology transfer activities, applied research links with industry and links to the funding agencies for the research activities in the Institute.

Since it opened in 1999 funding has been secured from:

• The Technological Sector Postgraduate R&D Skills Training Programme
• Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Partnership scheme where the Institute has teamed up with local companies to conduct R&D to improve processes and procedures
• Enterprise Ireland’s Proof Of Concept funding which allows the development of a possible commercial activity
• Enterprise Ireland’s Research Equipment grant
• The Embark Initiative
• The Higher Education Authority including the Research Funding Enhancement Scheme
• Leonardo da Vinci programs