CIT Nimbus researchers secure €1.5m funding

Researchers at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) have landed a double-funding boost to help advance their work in developing smarter, energy-efficient homes.

Two teams of Irish and international researchers at CIT’s Nimbus Centre secured a combined €1.5m in funding from the EU’s research and innovation fund, Horizon 2020.

Nimbus Centre head Dr Dirk Pesch heralded the funding as a major development for research here that could have wide-ranging impacts.