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Welcome from ATU President
from ATU Magazine
by ATU Sligo
Welcome From Atlantic TU President,
Dr Orla Flynn
Dear Reader,
Welcome to our new university magazine. I hope you enjoy reading about our first month’s activities as a technological university.
We are delighted to bring you news on our launch celebrations and all associated events. Sustainability and well-being were the predominant themes during launch week, and we also focus on these themes in this issue.
Our three Institutes of Technology have come together to form Atlantic Technological University. As a three-way partnership we’ve had to work that bit harder to find our common road, but we’ve done it.
Our challenge now is to entwine our three separate paths, face in one direction, and walk side by side together.
To better understand our region, we will continue to work with our political representatives, state agencies, industry, business and community representatives. Collaboration and partnership with all stakeholders is essential.
In April, our launch events celebrated the establishment of Atlantic TU and the formation of a new community that will serve the west and north-west region and beyond. Now we must put our shoulders to the wheel and make our aspirations a reality. I look forward to working with staff, students and our external stakeholders to make this happen.
As a new technological university, we will build on what we’ve developed over the last ten years on our Connacht-Ulster Alliance journey.
We will develop a technological university to serve a unique region by:
• Providing excellent educational opportunities
• Developing collaborative and engaged research
• Building relationships and forming collaborations outside the region by developing international partnerships overseas and with our cross border neighbours
Over the next few years, we will develop a coherent and cohesive strategy. Some of our current values will remain at the forefront of what we do, and our values and commitment to students will carry through to Atlantic TU.
When we are thinking of how best to serve the university’s learners, we won’t go too far wrong.
If there is one value that I would urge us all to embrace in the coming months, it is to be generous. For our new university to thrive, it needs us to show generosity of spirit, to get to know one another
Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir.
Guím gach rath orainn sna blianta atá amach romhainn.
