Athlone students awarded funding under new N-TUTORR programme

Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) students and Athlone natives Sharon Tan and Ronja Schmidt have been awarded funding to support the creation of an outdoor classroom and open access education space to support learning at the Athlone campus.

The N-TUTORR ‘Students as Partners in Innovation and Change’ funding grants have been awarded to 131 projects across the seven institutions that make up Ireland’s Technological Universities sector, including TUS. A total of over €650,000 is being awarded under the programme, with each project receiving up to €5,000 in funding.

The announcement of the funded projects took place at an event in the Spencer Hotel, Dublin, on Tuesday, May 23.

Funded by the European Union—NextGenerationEU, N-TUTORR is coordinated through the Technological Higher Education Association (THEA), with support from the Higher Education Authority (HEA).

For more information about the ‘N-TUTORR—Transforming Learning’ initiative, visit www.thea.ie/TransformingLearning and follow the official hashtag #NTUTORRFellowships.