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Dublin Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is Ireland's largest Higher Education Institute with a history of more than 100 years. It was re-established in its present, integrated structure in 1992. There are 21,000 registered students and approximately 2000 staff in DIT. The Institute offers more than 100 programmes at various levels from apprenticeship to PhDs. 80% of the provision in DIT is unique in Ireland, making DIT a skill-critical institute in Ireland in terms of both the Lisbon Agenda and the Barcelona target of raising R&D spend to 3% of GDP.

Research in DIT is based across its 6 Faculties (Applied Arts, Business, Built Environment, Engineering, Science and Technology, Tourism and Food) and attracts funding from national, regional, public, private and commercial sources including major research investments from the Irish Government's Programme for Research in Third Level Institutes and Science Foundation Ireland.

The Digital Media Centre is a multi disciplinary research group within the Faculty of Applied Arts and has been building its project portfolio area for over 10 years. The projects are focused around clearly defined research domains, two of particular relevance being geospatial information systems and knowledge management, both of which have a number of publicly funded projects in this domain. These include the EU-funded CIPHER and TARCHNA and the nationally funded CHI, Grangegorman Community Network, and Grangegorman VR. The Centre has a portfolio of eight national and EU projects and has participated in projects funded under Frameworks 4, 5 and 6.

DIT will provide 89 person-months RTD time from contracted research fellows and PhD students, plus 20 person-months of a contract project manager in the DMC. It will support these staff with the expertise and permanent resources of the Faculty of Applied Arts Digital Media Centre.

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www.dmc.dit.ie (Digital Media Centre)