The Mood of Europe – a new data visualization app designed and built by previous CEIM participant, Locus Insight, wasfeatured in the Irish Times Business section on Friday 3rd June.

Entrepreneur? Early-stage, high-growth company?

Good response to CEIM for 2011 - 2012. Good to see there are still plenty of enterprising people out there!

Closing date for CEIM applications is Friday 13th May.

Know someone who haas a good business idea? They can create their own future with CEIM. See www.ceim.ie

CÉIM is a 12 month full time programme for entrepreneurs who wish to commercialise their knowledge based or technology idea. Backed by the Letterkenny Insitute of Technology and IT Sligo, it surrounds entrepreneurs with the highest level of expertise to develop their project. The programme covers; finance, marketing, business process, patenting and product development and draws on the experience of people who have successfully brought their products to market. As a CÉIM participant, you’ll be able to take advantage of many other business opportunities like, networking and incubation space at the LYIT and IT Sligo campuses.

Congratulations to former CEIM participant, John McNamara of SendMode, which has won the 2011 Business Development award from Donegal Enterprise Board. The 2011 Enterprising Donegal Business Awards, hosted by Donegal County Enterprise Board awards were presented at the Radisson Hotel in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, recently.

Donegal County Enterprise Board continues it's comprehensive programme of activities for Enterprising Donegal Business Week.

CEIM Pre-Start, a short Enterprise Development programme starts on the 26th March and runs for four consecutive Saturdays. The first two sessions will be in CoLab, LYIT and the final two in the Innovation Centre at IT Sligo. The programme is geared towards people who are at the concept stage and wish to explore the viability of their idea with the help of business experts over a short period. Participants that complete the course and want to continue to develop their business idea will be considered for the CEIM programme.

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Keep an eye out for the new series of Dragons Den. Some CEIM participants are hoping to make an appearance. Melanie McGurk of petzone is a former CEIM who has already appeared before the Dragons.

IT Sligo hosts its Research Showcase Event on January 26th. It will run from 1.00 to 6.00pm in the Lower Level Yeats Library at the IT.

Congratulations to former CEIM participants Verus Precision who won the Best Start-Up category at the National Enterprise Awards 2010.

The November 2010 edition of Technology Ireland profiles former CEIM participant, Heinrich Anhold.

Congratulations to former CEIM participant, Heinrich Anhold of Epona Biotech - National Award Winner in the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Competition for 2010.

You’ve dreamed it. You’ve built it.  Now give your business lift-off with the 2010 InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Business Competition.

A Global Sales Strategies for Ambitious Entrepreneurs and Sales Focussed Companies will take place in Sligo on the 9th and 10th September 2010.

IT Sligo recently hosted a workshop on opportunities for Irish entrepreneurial companies to conduct business in the USA - with a particular emphasis on the greater Philadelphia region. The workshop was delivered by Maguire Hegarty LLC, Philadelphia-based certified public accountants and management consultants. It is hoped that this new contact between IT Sligo and Maguire Hegarty will open new trading opportunities for companies in the North West.

The great and the good from the Irish business world, including local entrepreneurs and representatives from top multi-national companies were in attendance at the Mansion House recently, for the Barr 50 le Gaeilge Business Awards.

CÉIM Pre-start aims to offer a practical first step to take ideas or inventions further and turn them into business propositions.  It brings together a host of experts and leading knowledge in innovation in; business strategy and management, assessing entrepreneurial ability, market research, market validation, sales, and communications. Many of the people delivering the programme are business people themselves who have developed their ideas into successful companies.  The format will be very interactive and calls for active participation at each of the workshops.

Co Sligo company GroupNos Technologies is guaranteed to walk away from InterTradeIreland’s Seedcorn Competition with at least €25,000, having triumphed in the Connacht and Leinster regional finals stage of the competition to take the prize for Best Emerging Company.

What’s the Irish for “handy”?  Find the word and how to pronounce it in seconds with ‘Get the Focal’, now available on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The Irish trade group also met with representatives of the Irish Consulate and the Irish Pastoral Center, and they conducted key meetings with interested entrepreneurs and technologists from India and Germany.

Last week, 7 CÉIM technology start-up companies based in IT Sligo and LYIT returned from a successful trade mission to Silicon Valley, California, where they met with more than 40 entrepreneurs, technologists, advisors and potential investors.

Author Robert Mullins reports on the CEIM group visiting Silicon Valley.

Day one of our trade mission to Silicon Valley kicked off with a visit to Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurhsip where we learned about the latest trends in technology, venture capitalism and how the university drives the commercialization of research.

CÉIM is the most successful enterprise development programme in the North West of Ireland. It is offered by the Institute of Technology, Sligo and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

CÉIM is the most successful enterprise development programme in the North West. It is offered by the Institute of Technology Sligo and Letterkenny Institute of Technology, in collaboration with, Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta. The programme is now recruiting for its fifth year and is targeted at people with innovative business ideas (which have high commercial and export potential) who live or wish to relocate to the North West region. CEIM will consider applications from third level graduates, people who want a career change or who have been made redundant.

Sheol Maithú, comhlacht teicneolaíochta faisnéise (TF) ó iarthar na hÉireann, agus Foras na Gaeilge ‘Get the Focal’, inné. Feidhmchlár do ghutháin shoghluaiste atá ann, a sholáthraíonn breis agus 12,000 aistriúchán Béarla-Gaeilge le húsáid ar líne.
Ach ‘Focal’ a sheoladh chuig 53503 (nó 82222 ó thuaidh), tá leathchuid d’fhoclóir ‘Get the Focal’ ar fáil ar bhonn trialach, saor in aisce.
Tá costas 30 cent ar an teachtaireacht téacs (£0.25 ó thuaidh).
Is féidir an foclóir iomlán, (12,000 aistriúchán) a íoslódáil ar E5, a ghearrfar ar do ghuthán soghluaiste.
De réir Maithú, tá sé an-éasca úsáid a bhaint as, níl aon táillí oibreora i gceist, agus oibríonn sé ar gach guthán soghluaiste.
Ag labhairt dó ag an seoladh, dúirt Cearbhall Ó Droighneáin, Príomhfheidhmeannach, Maithiú, go ndearna siad an tseirbhís a fhorbairt ‘mar fhreagra ar an ngá le cúnamh maidir le foghlaim na Gaeilge faoi dhálaí laethúla. Oireann ‘Get the Focal’ go mór do mhic léinn na Gaeilge, do thuismitheoirí, do mhúinteoirí, do státseirbhísigh agus d’éinne a bhfuil spéis acu sa teanga.’
Is comhlacht Teicneolaíochta Faisnéise é Maithú Teo a bhunaigh na deartháireacha Mícheál agus Cearbhall Ó Droighneáin agus a bhfuil oifigí acu i mBéal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo agus sa Mhol Digiteach, Baile Átha Cliath.
Díríonn siad ar réimse na mbogearraí saincheaptha le haghaidh ríomhairí agus gléasanna soghluaiste, chomh maith le feidhmchláir Ghréasáin a óstáil agus a fhorbairt.
‘Le blianta beaga anuas, tá borradh le feiceáil faoin spéis atá á léiriú sa Ghaeilge, agus creidimid go gcabhróidh ‘Get the Focal’ le daoine a bhfuil an teanga á foghlaim acu nó atá díreach ag iarraidh an cheist choitianta, ‘cén Ghaeilge atá ar…?’ a fhreagairt,’ arsa Cearbhall Ó Droighneáin.
Dúirt sé freisin gur chúis áthais dóibh a bheith ag obair le tionscadail a bhfuil baint acu le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge agus chultúr na tíre.
Forbraíodh an t-aistritheoir ‘Get the Focal’ le cúnamh ó Fhoras na Gaeilge agus Enterprise Ireland tríd an gclár, CÉIM.
Ag labhairt dó thar ceann Fhoras na Gaeilge, dúirt Éamonn Ó hÁrgáin go raibh ‘an Ghaeilge níos infheicthe i gcónaí i ngach gné den saol, agus soláthraíonn an tseirbhís seo fáil éasca ar 12,000 focal Gaeilge.
‘Táimid ag súil go mór lenár gcaidreamh le Maithú amach anseo.’
Tá fáil ar a thuilleadh sonraí ar www.getthefocal.com.
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A Letterkenny company is a finalist in the Prove your Idea Awards, The Awards are aimed at acknowledging business ideas which are innovative and have a great chance of success. Paul McNulty’s Letterkenny based company Trinity Innovations won the BMW final for its innovative digital magazine software 3DIssue.

CÉIM is the most successful enterprise development programme in the North West. It is offered by the Institute of Technology Sligo and Letterkenny Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Border Action, Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta and is co-ordinated by WESTBIC. The programme is now recruiting for its fourth year and is targeted at people with innovative business ideas, which have high commercial and export potential, who live or wish to relocate to the North West region. CÉIM will consider applications from third level graduates, people who have been made redundant and the groups identified by the EU Peace II Programme.

The CEIM Programme is offered by the Institute of Technology Sligo and Letterkenny Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Border Action, Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta and is co-ordinated by WESTBIC. On Friday 7th September, 12 new innovative companies from Donegal and Sligo commenced the programme, which is now going into its fourth year and is targeted at people with innovative business ideas, which have high commercial and export potential, who live or wish to relocate to the North West region. CEIM also considers applications from third level graduates, people who have been made redundant and the groups identified by the EU Peace II Programme.

Two past participants of the CEIM Programme, James Bonnar of Itronik Ltd. and Ger O’Carroll of Arrotek Medical Ltd., recently featured in Enterprise Irelands High Potential Start-up Showcase Event.