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€250,000 invested to provide nearly 1,000 places on new summer camps in higher education institutions across the country

Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD, today (Tuesday 13th June) welcomed the commencement of the entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation summer camps for second level students.

The first summer camp starts in Dublin City University this week. Summer camps will be run in twenty higher educations over the summer months.

The summer camps, which help students get hands-on experience of developing innovative ideas to solve problems and creating new products and services, will build on the expertise in each institution.


Welcoming the new summer camps, Minister Bruton said:
“A goal of the Action Plan for Education is to ensure that entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation are nurtured by the education and training system. This will help sustain our economic recovery and help to adapt our national skills base to meet the challenges of growth in the modern world.

“As Jobs Minister, I set out to ensure we supported a vibrant eco-system for entrepreneurs in Ireland and I’m continuing that work here in education.

“This is the first time that these types of summer camps have been run to enable second level students to engage in activities that stimulate entrepreneurial thinking and design skills among students.

“It’s great to see higher education institutions providing these activities for students so that they get to experience life on a higher education campus.”

Note for editors

Provider Summer Camp Name
Athlone Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
Cork Institute of Technology Step up to the Mark
Dundalk Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology GMIT Young Entrepreneurs Summer Camp
Institute of Technology, Carlow Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
Institute of Technology, Tallaght Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017: (culinary and digital media)
Institute of Technology, Tralee Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
Limerick Institute of Technology and MIC Empower: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Innovation, Entrepreneurship Youth
Waterford Institute of Technology Transition Year Enterprise Camp: Exploring Possibilities
National College of Art & Design Young Entrepreneurs Bootcamp
St. Angela’s College Sligo Robotics, App Development and BBC micro: bit Camp for Pre-Junior Certificate students
Dublin City University Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
Maynooth Univeristy Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
National University of Ireland, Galway Start Me Up
Trinity College Dublin (Walton) Trinity Walton Club STEM+ ICE
University College Cork Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
University College Dublin Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017
University of Limerick Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation Summer Camps 2017