Courses
Research and Innovation
Much of our research is carried out in collaboration with companies, communities, and other stakeholders in our region. We also participate in large-scale international networks, often bringing companies, communities, local authorities, and others from our region into those networks.
Research at Atlantic Technological University (ATU) is driven by innovation, collaboration, and regional impact across our nine campuses in the west and north-west of Ireland. Through major collaborations, such as PEACEPLUS and TU RISE, ATU works with industry, communities, and international partners to address challenges in sustainability, digital transformation, health, and enterprise.
Ou growing network of research centres and innovation hubs also supports applied research with real-world impact, helping to drive economic and social development throughout the region while strengthening our global research profile.
ATU Sustainability Impact Report 2025
RISE@ATU
Research Centres
Our Research Track Record
- We compete and win international funding based on excellence and originality.
- We publish at the highest levels in the peer-review system.
- We invent and deliver to market products, processes and systems.
- We inform the design and delivery of our undergraduate teaching with the outputs of our Research, Innovations and Engagement (RIE) activities.
- We graduate externally examined Masters and PhD students.
ATU Community Engagement Activities
Community-based Research Projects
We lead, collaborate, and support many community-based research projects. Projects are undertaken to support community development, inform social issues that may exist in communities, provide an evidence base for community development, and enhance the community for its citizens.
Work Integrated Learning
Over 200 of our programmes have community supported learning placements.
Volunteering Activities within Communities
Across all our campuses, large numbers of team members and students use their knowledge, skills, and competencies to support community initiatives and actions. They often raise much needed funds for local organisations such as the NW Simon Community, Focus Ireland, and Special Olympics Ireland.
Knowledge Transfer and Sharing Activities
These are embedded across all campuses. Knowledge sharing initiatives make an ongoing contribution to the economic, social, and cultural future of our society.
Examples of recent activities include Heritage Tourism and Social Value Creation, Inishowen Development Partnership, and Situational Health Needs Analysis.
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