Creating Our Future Roadshow to visit midlands in mid-October

Creating Our Future Roadshow to visit midlands in mid-October

A government-led brainstorm on the role research can play in addressing opportunities, challenges and hopes for the future, will visit the midlands towns in mid-October.

‘Creating Our Future’ aims to ensure that the direction of research in Ireland is informed by the people it serves

It starts tomorrow in Greystones and runs until October 25.

It visits Mullingar on October 13 (5.30-7pm); Longford on October 13 (2-4pm); and Tullamore on October 15 (1.30-3pm).

Creating Our Future is asking people to submit their ideas about what researchers in Ireland should explore to create a better future through creatingourfuture.ie, which is open until November 30, 2021.

The roadshow will be pulling up in towns across the country and will encourage members of the public to engage in a conversation with researchers over a cup of coffee, and to submit an idea about an opportunity or challenge in their lives, community, Ireland or the world; or something they are curious or passionate about and would like researchers to explore.

Encouraging people to visit the roadshow, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, said: “Over the course of the pandemic, we were reminded starkly of how much of our daily lives depend on the efforts of researchers to secure our economy, wellbeing, and health.

“As a forward-thinking country, we must ask how research can help meet the opportunities and challenges facing our society over the coming years. Creating our Future opens up this question to all.

“This roadshow will engage people right across our country in this vital campaign. Everyone, everywhere, can have an idea for a better future. I look forward to hearing them.”

For more information on how to get involved or to submit an idea, go to: creatingourfuture.ie.