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We are bringing 'Accelerate your Digital Transformation' to the Midlands. Hear from Gary Evans, Founder and CEO of Feedalpha about his work with ENTIRE EDIH Ireland and the ICS Technology Gateway team at Walton Institute at South East Technological University 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

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Walton Institute’s James Clarke attends Horizon Europe SNS CO-OP plenary meeting in The Hague The session provided an opportunity to review progress, share insights, and highlight key milestones that demonstrate the project’s growing impact across the wider ecosystem.

🌍 The SNS CO-OP Plenary Meeting brought together leading researchers, industry experts, and policymakers to discuss progress and priorities across Europe’s Smart Networks and Services initiatives.

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📖 This publication explores how modern UAVs operating as sophisticated cyber-physical systems expand the potential attack surface for adversaries, and introduces U-TUAST, a unified threat taxonomy structured around functional layers and the dependencies between them.

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Syeda's doctoral project, titled “Wearable EMG Smart Garment Supporting Personalised Training Programs for Children with ASD,” explores the integration of smart textiles and electromyography (EMG) sensing to create adaptive training systems tailored to the needs of children with Autism.

🎤 Hear direct from clients who successfully engaged with the European Digital Innovation Hubs and Applied IoT Technology Gateway Cluster, like Sheep Guardian by BT-Brotech, at the 'Accelerate your Digital Transformation' event on the 25th March 🙌

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🌍 Walton Institute at SETU was proud to welcome over 20 national experts from the field of physics today for a CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Physics - engagement workshop.

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AI-DAPT YouTube video by AI-DAPT

Walton Institute at South East Technological University is proud to be part of the AI-DAPT project—pioneering data-centric AI solutions that reshape industries through innovation and reliability 🙌

🎥Watch the video below to learn more.

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Muhammad Iftikhar Umrani, a PhD student in the Programmable Autonomous Systems division at Walton Institute in South East Technological University (SETU) is currently working on the UAVSec project, focused on strengthening the cybersecurity of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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PUBLICATION: Modeling the microRNA Regulation of TGF-β/SMAD Signaling Pathways for Seizure Control in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the most common types of epilepsy. Recent studies on analysing the molecular components of neurons in the brain provided potential therapeutic treatments for neurologi...

🧠 We are delighted to share our latest research contribution to understanding and potentially treating temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).

This new paper was recently published in the journal npj Systems Biology and Applications: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Epilepsy #PRIME #Research #NeuroScience

🌍 Walton Institute at SETU is proud to be part of the ZeroW project, an ambitious EU Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation initiative tackling one of the biggest sustainability challenges of our time: Food Loss and Waste (FLW).

Learn more at bit.ly/4tLfCJE

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IrelandQCI demonstrates quantum-secure communications in first Government Use Case with Local Authority Dublin City Council Partners in the IrelandQCI project successfully demonstrated quantum-secure communication at Dublin City Council headquarters today, as part of the project’s first engagement with a local authority.

🎉 We are proud to announce that partners in the IrelandQCI project – led by Walton Institute at SETU on behalf of CONNECT Centre – successfully demonstrated quantum-secure communication at Dublin City Council headquarters yesterday, as part of the project’s first engagement with a local authority.

🚀 Accelerate your digital transformation! This FREE exclusive event aims to help SMEs and public sector organisations unlock practical support, expertise and funding opportunities.

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Inspiring Future Innovators at Walton Institute’s Transition Year Camp 2026 Students traveled from schools across Waterford to take part in an engaging and immersive week designed to spark curiosity and showcase the exciting possibilities within research, technology and innov...

Walton Institute at South East Technological University welcomed 22 Transition Year students from across Waterford for our annual Transition Year Camp last week, providing them with real insight into how research translates into real-world impact.

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Webinar: access over 30 funding mechanisms through Walton Institute, SETU Walton Institute, SETU has identified over 30 funding mechanisms to help businesses drive growth through innovation, research & development.

Join Walton Institute on 25 Feb at 12:00 noon for a FREE webinar in collaboration with Waterford Chamber where we’ll break down 30+ funding mechanisms available to industry, from local supports to EU-level programmes, and show you how to access them to scale your business and accelerate innovation.

Publication: Dyadic-Chaotic Lifting S-Boxes for Enhanced Physical-Layer Security within 6G Networks The paper outlines a way to make wireless communication, especially future 6G, harder to eavesdrop on without adding heavy, slow encryption.

A new paper 'Dyadic-Chaotic Lifting S-Boxes for Enhanced Physical-Layer Security within 6G Networks' by Walton Institute's Dr Ilias cherkaoui and Dr Indrakshi Dey introduces a novel approach to strengthening physical-layer security (PLS), a key requirement for the ultra-connected #6G world.

Sean Lyons is a Technical Lead at Walton Institute at South East Technological University. He is currently Principal Investigator on the Sustainable Atlantic Communities (SAtComm) project led by Walton.

Learn more about the SAtComm project here: bit.ly/4a8qYQo

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Publication: Categorical Framework for Quantum-Resistant Zero-Trust AI Security Imagine you want to deliver a message so secret that even a super-quantum computer of the future would not be able to find its way through, and the only device available for this purpose is a smart se...

💻 The paper 'Categorical Framework for Quantum-Resistant Zero-Trust AI Security' by Walton Institute at SETU's Dr Ilias Cherkaoui and Dr Indrakshi Dey, in collaboration with Ciarán Clarke and Jerry Horgan (SETU), has been published in the prestigious Scientific Reports journal.

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We’re excited to highlight AgNav, a transformative digital sustainability platform designed in collaboration with Walton Institute at South East Technological University to support Irish farmers in meeting #ClimateAction and #Sustainability goals by turning data into actionable insights 🚜 🌱

Walton Institute Researcher Advances DUCA Data Sovereignty Framework in Finland Walton Institute's James Clarke furthers DUCA research on data sovereignty through an international secondment with Finnish partner YL-Verkot.

Walton Institute at South East Technological University's James Clarke recently spent time on secondment at YL-Verkot in Finland as part of the DUCA Project

During his time in Finland, Jim worked with the YL-Verkot team on a number of the technology areas & use cases being explored within #DUCA 🙌

Led by Walton Institute at SETU, #COALESCE brings together international expertise from academia and industry to explore how critical infrastructures interact, with the goal of enabling more efficient, resilient, and sustainable joint energy–data networks. Learn more at waltoninstitute.ie/projects

Dr Somayeh (Somy) Mahdikhani is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing (MEPS) Division at Walton Institute, SETU. She is currently leading the VendoR project funded by SETU's TU RISE.

More info: bit.ly/3NEzfCG

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Walton’s Hazel Peavoy secures place on National Senior Women’s Leadership Programme Hazel Peavoy of SETU’s Walton Institute has secured EDI funding to join the Senior Women’s Leadership Development Programme starting January 202

🎉 We are delighted to share that Hazel Peavoy, Senior Strategic Business Partner at Walton Institute,SETU, has secured EDI funding to participate in the Senior Women’s Leadership Development Programme Ireland, delivered by Advance HE.

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We’re excited to highlight one of the cutting-edge research initiatives underway at Walton Institute: AIQ-SHIELD — a project tackling one of the most critical challenges of our digital era.

For more info: waltoninstitute.ie/projects/aiq...

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Highlights from Walton Institute across 2025 YouTube video by Walton Institute

2025 has been another exciting year of research and innovation at Walton Institute in South East Technological University. Below is just a snapshot of some of the team's activities throughout the year 🎉

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Walton Institute: 2025 A Year In Review YouTube video by Walton Institute

Kevin Doolin, Executive Director at Walton Institute at SETU takes a look back at 2025 another exciting and productive year for all the team at Walton Institute filled with cutting-edge research and impactful innovation.

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The team at Walton Institute, South East Technological University and SETU Xcelerate Centre taking part in WLR FM's Wear Red to Work Day in aid of a great cause SVP - Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ireland ❤️

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Enterprise Ireland funding backs AI solution to CAP compliance Explore the AI solution for CAP compliance with AgritatorAI, designed to streamline agricultural decision-making processes.

🌱 We are pleased to announce that Walton Institute at SETU has secured €100k in Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept funding to develop AgritatorAI, a next-generation artificial intelligence Agricultural and land image analysis platform.

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Dublin Event Highlights Funding and Support Options for SMEs Undergoing Digital Transformation The event highlighted how organisations can access De Minimis funding to advance R&D projects

The ENTIRE EDIH and ICS Technology Gateway team at Walton Institute, SETU were delighted to be part of the 'Accelerating your Digital Transformation with the Applied IoT Technology Gateway Cluster and European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs)' event in Dublin.

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Walton Institute, SETU present at international digital health event The research forms part of Dr Abraham’s project on Paediatric Heart Disease Diagnosis through advanced AI methods.

Walton's Dr Lizy Abraham was excited to have the opportunity to present her research at IEEE HealthCom 2025, a leading international conference on digital health technologies held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 🩺

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Ireland steps up to protect Europe’s digital future Walton Institute in SETU secures €5.3m Horizon Europe project to develop EU mandated quantum-resistant security for critical sectors

🎉 We are proud to announce that Walton Institute in SETU has secured a €5.3m Horizon Europe project to develop EU mandated quantum-resistant security for critical sectors. Q-Fence project will help protect critical digital infrastructure from emerging quantum computing threats 🙌

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