University College Dublin is one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities. It is currently ranked within the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide.
Their research underpins national research and technology institutes and centres, including the CeADAR Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics funded by Science Foundation Ireland.
The University’s Strategy 2020-2024 Rising to the Future outlines the major strategic initiatives set in place in order to accomplish UCD’s vision for this era. One of the four UCD strategic plans is “Transforming through Digital Technology”.
The ENIGMA project is collaborating with the UCD Music and Math Cognition Lab. The Lab examines through behavioural, experimental and neuroscience approaches, the factors that impact maths learning, e.g., home learning environment, maths anxiety and developmental dyscalculia.
Moreover, the Lab is focused on Music Science, including affective and cognitive aspects related to music listening and music playing, for instance, the anxiety of music performance or the effect of music on cognition. The Lab is led by Dr Flavia H. Santos.
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University College Dublin (ucd.ie) and Music and Math Cognition Laboratory – UCD School of Psychology
Headstart Technology Limited is a specialist education consultancy and training provider based in Malta. The company has as its mission to provide education stakeholders with the best resources and pegadogies for 21st century teaching and learning, and focuses particularly on leveraging technology implementations to achieve transformative innovations in pedagogy and practice.
The organization is heavily involved not only in educator and leadership professional development, but also conducts research and applied product development, including bespoke course development. Participating in a number of Erasmus+ projects, the company focuses on a number of key areas which include softskill development, game based learning, emergent technologies and STEAM education as areas of primary concern.
Dedicating itself to working in the non-formal education space with children and young adults, the company has for many years developed innovative approaches and resources to tackle student engagement and education. Focus areas here include coding and computational thinking, robotics and VR/AR/XR technologies, as well as innovative science education incorporating ‘maker’ approaches (manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing and lasercutting), music and astronomy/astrophotography.
Headstart Technology is a Microsoft Global Training partner, and a member of the TA Education group of companies. The company also operates Europass Teacher Academy in Malta.
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