Registration is now open for a Matrix Hackathon entitled ‘Hack to the Future’ as part of the upcoming NI Science Festival. Northern Ireland’s creative and curious minds are being called to action as Matrix NI, the Northern Ireland Science and Industry Panel invites students, technologists, designers, researchers, policymakers and future-thinkers [...]
Matrix’s panel members and secretariat team attended The 2024 Airshow in Portrush, accompanied by Sam Dodds, a Student Placement in the Department For the Economy. Sam has documented his thoughts of the weekend below: Recently I had the opportunity to attend the NI International Airshow in Portrush as part [...]
The largest air show on the island of Ireland will make an action-packed return to Causeway Coast and Glens this September with a spectacular aerobatic performance from Airbourne Pyrotechnics. The NI International Air Show 2024, organised by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, will welcome spectators to the seaside town [...]
Two Northern Ireland winners were amongst recipients of Women In Innovation Awards 2022/23. The Women in Innovation Programme was launched in 2016 by Innovate UK with the overall aim of increasing gender equality in business-led innovation. The annual competition from Innovate UK supports and celebrates remarkable women entrepreneurs and senior [...]
Cabinet Secretary Simon Chase MP has announced the appointment of Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS as the new Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA). Dame Angela, who is currently Chief Scientific Adviser for the Ministry of Defence, was selected by the Prime Minister following an open competition and will be [...]
Innovate UK is looking to recruit 40 women from across the Foundation Industries, to receive a fully-funded placement on a Women's Leadership Development programme starting this May. The programme is a part of the Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) Challenge that brings together the metals, glass, paper, ceramics, cement and bulk chemical industries [...]
Women in Business, Northern Ireland’s leading support network for women in the workplace is to celebrate the role of women leaders in the local technology sector next month with the inaugural Women in Tech Awards to be held at Belfast’s Europa Hotel. The Women in Tech Awards will recognise and [...]
Nominations are open now for EmTech Europe’s Innovators Under 35 Festival which is being held in Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal from 19th - 21st May. Innovators Under 35 Europe Festival 2021 presents an excellent opportunity to meet the next generation of innovators, who will transform our lives through their technological advances. [...]
The Northern Ireland Science Festival, which takes place this month from 17-27 February, is to feature the Matrix and Pulsar sponsored event “I ❤️ My STEM Career”, during which comedian and international award-winning science communicator, Emer Maguire will chat to a host of local STEM professionals, finding out why they [...]
A new scheme to encourage girls to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) gets underway today. Matrix, the Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, has been working closely with WISE, a UK body committed to encouraging women and girls to take up careers in science and engineering, to [...]
Build a Plane Northern Ireland Project (BAPNI) has got underway with the support of The Air League and Boeing who have funded the engine of the aircraft. The project will see groups from shared education partnerships across the country build a Sherwood Scout, a two-seater, high wing monoplane, which has [...]
The UK Space Agency is offering young people expert advice and a share of £50,000 for their ideas of how satellites could improve life on Earth. The SatelLife Competition, now in its third year, is looking for innovative proposals that have the potential to use data collected from space to [...]