Creating Our Future Roadshow to visit Mayo next month

The Creating Our Future Roadshow will kick off tomorrow (Friday), starting in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and will run until October 25. Its Mayo visit will take place in Castlebar from 5.30 to 7 p.m. on October 11.

Creating Our Future is a government-led national brainstorm that will involve the people of Ireland in a conversation on the role research can and should play in addressing opportunities, challenges and hopes for the future.

It will ensure that the direction of research in Ireland is informed by the people it serves.

Creating Our Future is asking people to submit their ideas about what researchers in Ireland should explore to create a better future through the dedicated online portal www.creatingourfuture.ie, which is open until November 30.

The roadshow will encourage members of the public to engage in a conversation with researchers over a cup of coffee and to submit an idea about an opportunity or challenge in their lives, community, Ireland or the world, or something they are curious or passionate about and would like researchers to explore.

Encouraging people to visit the roadshow, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, said: “Over the course of the pandemic, we were reminded starkly of how much of our daily lives depend on the efforts of researchers to secure our economy, wellbeing and health.

“As a forward-thinking country, we must ask how research can help meet the opportunities and challenges facing our society over the coming years. Creating Our Future opens up this question to all.”

For more information on how to get involved or to submit an idea, go to www.creatingourfuture.ie.