The Irish Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is a competition for Irish students in the final year of second level education who are under twenty on December 31st in the year of…

Dr. Eilish McLoughlin – Director of CASTeL and Associate Professor in the School of Physical Sciences, has been honoured with a prestigious 2019 Science Foundation (SFI) award announced today at the annual SFI…

The Irish Junior Science Olympiad (IrJSO) is a science competition for students who are under sixteen on December 31st of the year of the competition. Finalists qualify through the Junior Certificate Examinations…

The 2019 European Science on Stage festival took place from 31 October to 3 November 2019 in Cascais, Portugal, at the Estoril Congress Center. At the largest European educational fair…

Colleagues in CASTeL are involved in providing a number of Summer Professional Development Opportunities These include: Open Schooling Approach to Inquiry Learning in Science – Learn More Preparing Primary School Teachers for…

An Investigation into Making Food Waste into Bio-Plastic for Everyday Use wins SciFest@DCU Of the 103 projects exhibited at SciFest@DCU on 3rd May 2019, the top prize on the day,…

CASTeL Director Dr Eilish McLoughlin has been honoured by the Institute of physics for “leadership of large-scale national initiatives that widen participation in physics in Ireland.” Professor Paul Hardaker, the Chief Executive…

The 57th Annual Conference of the Irish Science Teachers’ Association was held in Dublin City University on the 12th -14th April 2019. This was the first time that DCU has ever…

Dublin City University launched the 2019 STEM Teacher Internship programme in DCU’s Institute of Education on Wednesday, April 10th providing DCU STEM teacher education students with the unique opportunity to…

DCU researchers launch the Erasmus+ project Assessment of Transversal Skills for STEM. This project brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from 12 organisations across 8 European Countries. This project…