Established in 1972, the University of Limerick (UL) is an independent, internationally focussed university with over 13,000 students and 1,400 staff. It is a young, energetic and enterprising university with a proud record of innovation in education and excellence in research and scholarship. Its mission is to be a distinctive, pioneering and connected university that shapes the future through educating and empowering people to meet the real challenges of tomorrow. UL is recognised as possessing one of the most spectacular and environmentally sympathetic university campuses in the world. The campus is adorned by unrivalled sports and cultural facilities, including Ireland’s first Olympic-size swimming pool, an indoor sports arena, a boathouse with a state-of-the-art indoor rowing tank, the 1,100-seat University Concert Hall, the Irish Chamber Orchestra Building and the Irish World Academy with an impressive range of visual art including outdoor sculptures, the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland and the Water Colour Society of Ireland Collection. The UL campus is located 5km from Limerick City and 20km from Shannon International Airport. UL has been named 'University of the Year 2015 in the Sunday Times Good University Guide. UL’s leading position in graduate employability, strong research commercialisation, the €52million Bernal Project in science and engineering and a rising academic performance were among the reasons for the award. The campus is home to the Nexus Innovation Centre supporting spin-out activity in the region and is central to the UL Enterprise Corridor which hosts leading R&D companies including Johnson & Johnson. Adjacent to the University is the National Technology Park (NTP), Ireland’s first science/ technology park (263 hectares), which is home to over 80 organisations employing over 3,000 people. The research focus at UL is on research with consequences for economic and social benefit. This is characterised by the convergence of discrete disciplines working together to achieve fundamental breakthroughs whilst adopting a translational approach to ensure research results are translated more rapidly towards economic and social impacts for Ireland and beyond. UL is committed to research that will enable Ireland to transition towards a knowledge-based economy while supporting the societal implications of such transition. UL’s research and knowledge transfer activities span all of its faculties and disciplines. The University values and supports the excellence of output and achievement by its research community across all of its research areas. At the same time, the University recognises that research areas need to be prioritised so that effective research infrastructure, supported by appropriate human and physical resources, can be developed. The following are the prioritised research areas where UL has critical mass and internationally recognised strengths: ? Materials and Surface Science ? Information & Communication Technologies ? Health ? Applied Mathematical Sciences ? Energy ? Culture, Diversity and Social Change Interdisciplinary research convergence and critical mass are further reflected through UL’s research institutes and centres. Research institutes represent the highest level of research infrastructure within the University, and provide focused support for research, both within faculties and across faculties. The three research institutes are: ? Materials and Surface Science Institute (MSSI) ? Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre ? Stokes Research Institute UL’s research excellence and leadership are demonstrated through the University’s role in several significant research projects, including the following: ? Through the €52 million science and engineering Bernal Project, UL will make a significant contribution to Ireland’s national capability in the strategically important areas of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Energy research. The Bernal Project involves the recruitment of 10 world-leading professors, a start-up seed fund to support their teaching and research activity and the construction of a new advanced research building on campus. ? UL has launched a new research initiative driven by the concept of the measurable impact that research can have on industry, society and the wider community. The UL Research Impact initiative will highlight best practice among the UL research community with the guiding principle of pursuing excellent research that is measurable, achieved through collaboration and focused on the ultimate goal of delivering impact. As part of the launch of Research Impact, four best practice case studies were developed focussing on research that has been evidenced to deliver real impact. These include research in clinical therapies, public participation in politics, the landscape of multinational companies in Ireland, and the SFI-funded Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC). ? UL leads the SSPC centre that was awarded research funding of €40 million by SFI and industry to conduct world-leading research to make pharmaceutical manufacturing more efficient, cost effective, and environmentally sustainable. The centre is a unique collaboration between 17 companies and 8 academic institutions and will position Ireland as a global hub for pharmaceutical process innovation and advanced manufacturing. ? UL hosts the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology Centre (PMTC) which attracted investment of €5M over the next 5 years. This industry-focussed Centre will deliver advanced technology solutions to contemporary manufacturing issues currently challenging the Irish pharmaceutical sector. The aim of PMTC is to make Ireland the global hub of pharmaceutical process innovation and manufacturing and ultimately support an industry which directly employs over 25,000 people. ? UL leads the LERO – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre that was awarded research funding of €40 million by SFI and industry to conduct research on the latest industry software challenges, enabling multinationals and SMEs in Ireland to thrive and maintain a competitive advantage, and will establish Lero as a world-class centre of software research excellence. Lero brings together leading software teams from Universities and Institutes of Technology in a coordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus. ? UL is part of the multi-partnered, multi-disciplinary Food for Health Ireland (FHI) centre that was awarded a €21m investment from Enterprise Ireland’s Technology Centre Programme. The FHI partners provide world-class science and dairy industry know-how in one research centre aimed at developing, manufacturing marketing and selling nutritional ingredients and functional food products to improve people’s health and wellness. ? UL hosts the Irish Centre for Composites Research (IComp), which was established under the Technology Centre initiative of Enterprise Ireland and the IDA and is based in the MSSI. UL co-hosts two further Technology Centres, namely the Technology Centre for Biorefining and Bioenergy and the Microelectronics Technology Centre. In addition, UL is leading or partnering in numerous other research projects, both nationally and internationally. Examples of international projects led by UL include, among others, European Framework Programme projects on optimising medical and psychosocial primary care for migrants in Europe; cooling systems for concentrated solar power plants; and production of bioethanol from microalgae with low-cost scalable photo bioreactors.

利默里克大学(UL)成立于 1972 年，是一所独立且注重国际化的大学，拥有超过 13,000 名学生和 1,400 名教职员工。这是一所年轻、充满活力且富有进取心的大学，在教育创新和卓越的科研和学术方面拥有自豪的记录。其使命是成为一所独特、开创性且互联互通的大学，通过教育和赋能人们，塑造未来，迎接未来的真正挑战。 UL 被公认为拥有世界上最壮观且环保的大学校园之一。校园配备了无与伦比的体育和文化设施，包括爱尔兰首个奥林匹克标准游泳池、室内体育馆、配备先进室内划艇水池的船屋、可容纳 1100 人的大学音乐厅、爱尔兰室内乐团大楼以及拥有丰富视觉艺术品的爱尔兰世界学院，包括户外雕塑、爱尔兰国家自画像收藏和爱尔兰水彩画协会收藏。UL 校区距离利默里克市 5 公里，距离香农国际机场 20 公里。 UL 被《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南评为“2015 年度大学”。UL 在毕业生就业率上的领先地位、强劲的研究商业化、5200 万欧元的伯纳尔科学与工程项目以及日益提升的学术表现，是获奖原因之一。园区内设有支持该地区衍生活动的 Nexus 创新中心，并且是 UL 企业走廊的核心，该走廊汇聚了包括强生在内的领先研发公司。大学旁边是国家技术园(NTP)，这是爱尔兰第一个科学/技术园区(263 公顷)，拥有 80 多个机构，雇佣了 3000 多名员工。 UL 的研究重点是对经济和社会利益产生影响的研究。这一特点是各学科协同合作，实现根本性突破，同时采用转化方法，确保研究成果更快地转化为爱尔兰及更广泛地区的经济和社会影响。UL 致力于开展研究，使爱尔兰实现向知识型经济转型，同时支持这一转型对社会的影响。 UL 的研究与知识转移活动涵盖所有院系和学科。大学重视并支持其研究社区在所有研究领域的卓越产出和成就。同时，大学认识到需要优先排序研究领域，以便建立有效的研究基础设施，并配备适当的人力和物力支持。以下是 UL 拥有关键规模和国际认可优势的重点研究领域： ? 材料与表面科学 ? 信息与通信技术 ?健康 ? 应用数学科学 ?能源 ? 文化、多样性与社会变革跨学科研究的趋同和临界质量也通过 UL 的研究机构和中心进一步体现。研究机构代表了大学最高水平的研究基础设施，为各院系及跨院系的研究提供集中支持。这三个研究所分别是： ? 材料与表面科学研究所(MSSI) ? 爱尔兰软件工程研究中心 Lero ? 斯托克斯研究所 UL 的研究卓越和领导力体现在大学参与多个重要研究项目中，包括以下项目： ? 通过价值 5200 万欧元的伯纳尔科学与工程项目，UL 将为爱尔兰在制药、生物医学和能源研究这一战略重要领域的国家能力做出重要贡献。伯纳尔项目包括招募 10 位世界顶尖教授，设立启动种子基金支持他们的教学和研究活动，并在校园内建设一座新的先进研究楼。 ? UL 启动了一项新的研究计划，基于研究对产业、社会及更广泛社区可衡量影响的理念。UL 研究影响力倡议将突出 UL 研究社区的最佳实践，指导原则是追求可衡量的卓越研究，通过协作实现，并以实现影响为目标。作为 Research Impact 启动的一部分，制定了四个最佳实践案例研究，重点关注已被证明能带来实际影响的研究。这些包括临床治疗研究、公众参与政治、爱尔兰跨国公司的格局，以及由 SFI 资助的合成与固态制药中心(SSPC)。 ? UL 领导着 SSPC 中心，该中心获得了 SFI 和产业界 4000 万欧元的研究资助，开展世界领先的研究，使制药制造更高效、更具成本效益且环境可持续。该中心是 17 家公司和 8 所学术机构的独特合作成果，旨在将爱尔兰定位为全球制药工艺创新和先进制造的枢纽。 ? UL 设有制药制造技术中心(PMTC)，在接下来的五年内吸引了 500 万欧元的投资。该以行业为核心的中心将为当前挑战爱尔兰制药行业的当代制造问题提供先进技术解决方案。PMTC 的目标是使爱尔兰成为全球制药工艺创新与制造的中心，并最终支持一个直接雇佣超过 25,000 人的行业。 ? UL 领导 LERO——爱尔兰软件工程研究中心，该中心获得 SFI 和工业界 4000 万欧元的研究资金，用于研究最新的行业软件挑战，帮助爱尔兰的跨国公司和中小企业蓬勃发展并保持竞争优势，并将 Lero 打造为世界级的软件研究卓越中心。Lero 汇聚了来自大学和理工学院的顶尖软件团队，打造一个协调一致的研究卓越中心，并以行业为核心。 ? UL 是多合作伙伴、多学科的爱尔兰健康食品中心(FHI)的一部分，该中心获得了爱尔兰企业局技术中心项目的 2100 万欧元投资。FHI 合作伙伴在一个研究中心提供世界一流的科学和乳制品行业专业知识，旨在开发、制造、营销和销售营养成分和功能性食品，以改善人们的健康与福祉。 ? UL 设有爱尔兰复合材料研究中心(IComp)，该中心由爱尔兰企业局和 IDA 的技术中心倡议成立，设在 MSSI。UL 还共同主办了两个技术中心，分别是生物炼制与生物能源技术中心和微电子技术中心。此外，UL 还在国内外领导或合作众多其他研究项目。UL 领导的国际项目示例包括欧洲框架计划中优化欧洲移民医疗和心理社会初级护理的项目;集中式太阳能发电厂的冷却系统;以及利用低成本可扩展光生物反应器从微藻生产生物乙醇。