LIT along with their consortium partner AIT, has been awarded €1 million euro funding for their participation in the Regional University Network European University (RUN-EU) initiative.
From the first day of October, Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) will cease to exist, and more than 15,000 students and 1,200 staff across the Midlands and Midwest will be teaching, learning and researching at the newly designated TUS: Midlands Midwest.
The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has confirmed the name of Ireland’s newest TU as the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest.