At a time when the UK’s Prime Minister calls a snap general election and Ireland’s National Competiveness Council published its report ‘Benchmarking Competitiveness: Ireland and the UK, 2017’, it’s time we started to place greater focus on the opportunities being created in this new economic...
Engineers' Den 2017 Now Open for Entries Team Horizon recognises the importance of STEM at primary and secondary level and wants to support and innovate in partnership with local schools at grass-roots level. Following on from the success of the 2016 competition Team Horizon are...
The final of Engineers' Den took place in the Townhall, Westport, County Mayo on Wednesday 18th May. In association with Engineers Ireland, the competition aims to grow awareness of the need for investment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) in schools, showcase engineering as an exciting...
Since the launch of the Engineers’ Den competition for national and secondary schools in Mayo on 2nd March, interest from teachers and schools across the County has exceeded expectations. Registration for the event has now officially closed, and the polls are now open for the People's...
As published in the Engineers' Journal 5 April 2016 Now that the dust has settled since the publication of the EU Falsified Medicine Directive (around serialisation implementation), we took half an hour with Horizon Life Sciences Group's Thomas Merle to discuss the implications of the directive. The deadline...
Stem and Equality About a year ago my daughter took part in a public speaking competition with her school – the topic of her speech was “Women’s Inequality is the greatest challenge of our time”. She read it to me several times as she discussed and...
Your CV is your shop window to attract that perfect job and is likely to be the first impression a prospective employer has of you. And first impressions matter! So presenting your CV – both in terms of content and format is critically important, as is...
Engineers' Den Competition Officially Launched Team Horizon recognises the importance of STEM at primary and secondary level and wants to support and innovate in partnership with local schools at grass-roots level. The Engineers Den competition, in association with Engineers Ireland and the STEPS programme, is a...
Over the last few weeks we have been conducting a survey of over 2000 engineers, the aim of which was to capture the the opinion and industry viewpoint on actions needed by the incoming Government to support the engineering sector. The survey, in which engineers...
The EU delegated act on safety features has been published and pharmaceutical companies have three years to add unique identifiers and anti-tampering features to medicine packs. The act introduces obligatory ‘safety features’ for medicines in the form of a unique identifier and an anti-tampering device. Such safety...