News at GROWTHhub: Kate O’Moore interview, Student Entrepreneur Awards & Climate Launchpad

Published: 8 Feb, 2022

Hi all! 

Welcome to our second NEWS at GROWTHhub.  In this issue you can:

1. Get inspired! Hear Kate O’Moore (TU Dublin BA Visual Communications, Graphic Design graduate) talking about her entrepreneurial journey creating her company MAKER.
2. Explore! Do you have an innovative business idea with real commercial value and would like to realise your entrepreneurial ambition? Apply to the Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards competition today.
3. Learn! Climate Launchpad international competition

 

1. Get inspired! Hear Kate O’Moore (TU Dublin BA Visual Communications, Graphic Design graduate) talking about her entrepreneurial journey creating her company MAKER.

Every issue of NEWS at GROWTHhub includes an interview with a successful entrepreneur or an innovation leader, where they  share their story and offer their advice to students.

In our issue today, Kate O’Moore, a graduate of TU Dublin BA Visual Communications, Graphic Design, talks to Glòria Rull at GROWTHhub about her entrepreneurial journey since graduating from TU Dublin, to becoming the Creative Director & Founder of MAKER.

This is a very frank and honest conversation. We hope you enjoy our chat with Kate.

 

Play now

 

 2. Explore! Do you have an innovative business idea with real commercial value and would like to realise your entrepreneurial ambition? Apply to the Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards competition today. 

The Student Entrepreneur Awards could help you realise your ambitions. 

• Become an entrepreneur: Students create their businesses with support from the TU Dublin GROWTHhub and the Student Entrepreneur Awards.
• Stand Out: Taking part demonstrates the commitment to innovation that employers and investors are looking for. 
• Get Help: Advice & mentoring from Enterprise Ireland, and LEO.
• Fund your start-up: €35,000 in cash prizes. 
  • Overall Winner: € 10,000
  • Cruickshank High Achieving Merit Award: € 5,000
  • Grant Thornton High Achieving Merit Award: € 5,000
  • Local Enterprise Office ICT Award € 5,000
  • Enterprise Ireland Merit Awards Fund, 6 runner-up awards of €1,500, 1 academic award of €1,000

Sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, Cruickshank, Grant Thornton and the Local Enterprise Office, the Student Entrepreneur Awards offers third level students from all academic disciplines the opportunity to realise their entrepreneurial ambitions. The Student Entrepreneur Awards are open to all full-time registered third level undergraduate and postgraduate students on the island of Ireland. Entries can be from individuals or teams. 

 

Interested? Why not enter Stage 1?  TU Dublin GROWTHhub is here to help!! 

Stage 1: Create a two-minute video that showcases your great idea, highlighting its commercial and export potential. The videos are then submitted via the online entry form before the closing date 11 March 2022.  

TU Dublin GROWTHhub can provide:

• An Ideation Lab for you to work on the business idea (please email your request to growthhub@tudublin.ie).
• Support and guidance on putting together your video pitch.
• Greenscreen facilities and equipment to help you record your video (please email your request to growthhub@tudublin.ie).
• Ongoing support at each stage of the competition.

 

3. Learn! Climate Launchpad international competition

ClimateLaunchpad is funded through a project aligned to the European University of Technology and is led jointly by Dr Deirdre McQuillan (EUt+ and TU Dublin), Dr Jesus Frias (ESHI) and Dr Paul Maguire (Hothouse). It is funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology through EIT Climate-KIC.  Staff and students from PhD, MSC, and undergraduate programmes participated, and mentoring supports were provided at different stages by the GROWTHhub and Hothouse. 

We would like to congratulate Bio Wrap, as the first ClimateLaunchpad international competition winners.

The team comprises four students from TU204 (ME in Mechanical Engineering) and TU219 (MSc in Sustainable Infrastructure): 

• Aisling Noonan
• Callum Robinson
• David Walsh
• Samuel Berry

In the Climate Launchpad process, they were tutored by Mark Ennis (School of Creative Arts), Jennifer McDonnell (School of Marketing) and Dr Colm O'Kane and Dr Kevin Delaney (both School of Mechanical and Design Engineering) in an interdisciplinary project funded by a GROWTHhub bursary.

Find out more here

 

Looking forward talking to you soon, 

Paul, Gavan & Gloria

GROWTHhub team

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