ATU Wins Two Awards at the EURSHAE Skills Conference in Budapest

Ruth Moran, Graduate Education and Research Integrity Office, ATU Sligo along with Nirjole Zinkeviciene, Vice Rector, VIKO International, Lithuania won the Research and Innovation competencies PHE Star Award for their EU RECAPHE project at the EURASHE skills conference 2023 held in Bucharest recently.

RECAPHE is a co-operative project that has developed research modules and tools for enhancing and building staff research and innovation capacity in Professional Higher Education in Europe.

EURASHE is a European association of higher education institutions with professionally oriented courses and programmes. It represents the sector as regards the policy issues at EU level. EURASHE is one of the non-governmental partners of the Bologna process, a process promoting development of the European Higher Education sector. Commenting on the award Ruth Moran said: “The RECAPHE project was very much a collaborative EU project which addressed and supported PHE institutional staff and researchers in bridging a skills gap to allow staff to further engage in applied research and innovative activities. The RECAPHE project created a self-assessment platform that allowed researchers and staff to self-assess against the researchbased competences that were developed.”

“Thank you to all who supported our RECAPHE Journey across ATU. The EURASHE Research and Innovation PHE Star Award was a final ribbon in our RECAPHE family bow.”

Ruth Moran, Graduate Education and Research Integrity Office, ATU Sligo

ATU picked up a second award at the EURSHAE conference. Paul Hannigan, Head of College, ATU Donegal; JoAnne Kilmartin, ATU Donegal along with a colleague in the North West Tertiary Education cluster (NWTEC) Wendy Gibbons, North West Regional College won the PHE Star Award for Regional Dimension for their presentation ‘Leading from the North West of Ireland’. We will have more on this project in the next issue of our ATU Magazine.