Celebrating Entrepreneurship with Inspire Fest
GROWTHhub celebrated entrepreneurship in style during our second Inspire Fest which we held on Wednesday 5th February.The festival shone a spotlight on sustainable entrepreneurship, bringing together experienced entrepreneurs, role models and students in an action-packed day of events across the Waterford campus. Inspire Fest opened with a motivating keynote talk by Michael Flynn, CEO of […]
GROWTHhub 23/24 Recap
As the academic year draws to a close, we want to take a chance to look back on what we consider to be a great year. From workshops to guest speakers with plenty of Lego in between; we are delighted to have been able to offer so much and engage with so many. Below are […]
GROWTHhub Goes Green Guest Speaker: John O’ Connor
On Wednesday, March 13th, we welcomed John O’Connor in to speak to our 2nd year career management students. John is a successful founder, CEO and investor with a extensive business portfolio. John delivered an engaging, informative talk which our students really enjoyed. Alongside speaking about his journey as an entrepreneur, John placed an emphasis on […]
GROWTHhub Goes Green Workshops
Last week we held our sustainability week; GROWTHhub Goes Green! Across the week, we held various workshops; all of which were geared towards educating students and staff on climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We ran a number of ideation workshops for first-year business students throughout the week. These workshops involved working […]
Guest Speaker – Des McAuliffe
Des McAuliffe from Dornan Group kindly came in to the GROWTHhub today to speak to 4th year construction management and quantity surveying students. Dornan Group in an Irish engineering and construction management company with clients rights across Europe. Des’ presentation focused on disputes and the various forms of dispute resolution available. Des delivered a great […]
School of Business Networking Event
Last week we were delighted to facilitate presentations from various accounting firms as part of the School of Business student networking event. On the day, students had the opportunity to talk to various companies, suitable for all streams of business, from accounting to marketing. Companies included Klearcom, Fitzgerald Power, Dawn Meats, State Street and Auto […]
GROWTHhub Café Guest Speaker: John Barron
GROWTHhub Café Guest Speaker: John Barron On Monday, February 26th, John Barron joined us in the GROWTHhub Café to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur. John is the CEO and founder of GoChallenge, a company whose mission is to try and tackle workplace stress and burnout through movement. GoChallenge looks to combat the sedentary […]
Safe Uncertainty
Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Stijn Bollinger and Ritie van Rooijen; two senior lecturers and researchers from Utrecht, the Netherlands. Stijn and Ritie kindly walked a group of our lecturers through an engaging workshop about uncertainty and how to make uncertainty productive. Lecturers were asked to consider an uncertain situation in their […]
Mozambique Delegation
SETU Growth Hub hosted a visit by two researchers from ROVUMO University, Niassa Provence, Mozambique earlier this week. The purpose of the visit is to showcase the capabilities of SETU and to co-design a 3-year research programme where SETU and ROVUMA can work together to develop agri-entrepreneurship education and practice in Niassa, Mozambique. The visit by […]
GROWTHhub Bootcamp 2024 Our first event for this semester was the GROWTHhub Bootcamp. This bootcamp aimed to provide participants with a quick look into what entrepreneurship and the GROWTHhub are all about. Over three evenings, our students went from ideation right through to pitching, showing off their creativity, teamwork and communication. Students were shown many […]