Goonhilly: Cornwall's place in the space race
- Category: Education and Research
World-famous Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is back in business as new consortium plans to upgrade facilities for communication with deep space missions.
World-famous Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is back in business as new consortium plans to upgrade facilities for communication with deep space missions.
The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen offers taught masters and doctoral programmes of the highest quality in the history, literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland.
Welsh and Irish youth organisations Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Ógras are about to launch an EU-funded cross-border initiative to unite the young people of Wales and Ireland.
The Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative (ISAI) was set up in 1995 to be a formal link between three universities in Scotland and Ireland involving three subject areas: history, Celtic studies, and literatures in the English language.
The Amergin Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Corunna promotes academic research on issues concerning Ireland and provides a source of information on Irish issues in Galicia.
School partnerships in Europe are an increasingly common practice. The eTwinning action, launched by the EU in 2005, was created to give schools the opportunity to learn from and with each other, to share their views and to make friends.
