Editing Cork Institute of Technology (section)

== Research ==
Research was a core dimension of CIT activity. This is underlined by the fact that, after [[Dublin Institute of Technology]], CIT has the most extensive delegated authority to award PhDs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.corkindependent.com/local-news/local-news/cit-applies-for-university-status/ |title=CIT applies for University status |access-date=6 November 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012150646/http://www.corkindependent.com/local-news/local-news/cit-applies-for-university-status/ |archive-date=12 October 2008 |work=[[Cork Independent (newspaper)|Cork Independent]]}}</ref> In collaboration with a wide range of organisations including Higher Education Institutions, Industry, State and Voluntary Bodies, CIT is involved in research that contributes to supporting:
* Regional and National Industry.
* The National and EU knowledge economy and Innovation Base.
* Enhanced quality of life within Irish society.
* Quality research postgraduate education at Masters and PhD level.
* Quality undergraduate and taught postgraduate teaching and learning.

The main Institute research activity was primarily, though not exclusively, organised around three Strategic Research Clusters that reflect the CIT current dominant strategic research strengths and critical mass. There are also new and emerging areas of research and a number of long established centres that engage in research and consultancy. Across the Institute faculties and constituent colleges, academic staff research interests range across Engineering, Science, Business and Humanities, Music and Art. The CIT Research mission is to continue to build on niche strengths and to develop sustainable and productive research, innovation, technology transfer and postgraduate education across all its faculties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cit.ie/research/|title=Cork Institute of Technology|website=Cork Institute of Technology|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref>

CIT hosted the 2011 Collaborative European Research Conference at its Blackrock Castle Observatory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cerc-conf.eu/ |title=Welcome to CERC2012 |access-date=6 November 2018 |url-status=dead |publisher=Collaborative European Research Conference |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314175102/http://cerc.h-da.de/home/ |archive-date=14 March 2012 }}</ref>

=== NIMBUS Centre ===
On 17 January 2010, CIT took possession of the new NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research and, on 16 March 2010, 65 researchers and students relocated from diverse locations in CIT to the NIMBUS building.{{fact|date=April 2022}}

Funded through the HEA Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) in 2007, NIMBUS was the first building nationally to be completed in the 4th cycle of PRTLI funding and reflects collaboration and project management by the CIT Development Office, the architects RKD, building contractors Walls and the team of researchers for whom the building was designed.{{fact|date=April 2022}}

A research centre at the NIMBUS Centre is adjacent to and attached to the Rubicon Centre and its extension.{{fact|date=April 2022}} The NIMBUS Centre provides space for up to 80 researchers, including facilities for undergraduate project students, visiting postgraduate students and researchers from other institutions and dedicated industry visitor workstations, where company researchers can work in collaboration with NIMBUS staff and use NIMBUS research facilities.{{fact|date=April 2022}} A large area of the ground floor is given over to an open-plan laboratory space.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cit.ie/research|title=Cork Institute of Technology|website=Cork Institute of Technology|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref>