University of Limerick

The University of Limerick (UL) is an independent, internationally focused university with over 13,000 students and 1,426 staff. It has an established reputation as Ireland’s leading university in industry-led research. This has resulted in significant research commercialization activities and collaborations between our leading researchers and industry.

The University of Limerick has more than 15 years of experience in developing and delivering blended and distance learning programmes. There are currently around 50 distance, part-time and blended learning courses on offer. In recent years, there has been a move towards e-learning, both for fully on-line programmes (two fully on line MSc programmes) and blended learning (more than 15 blended learning programmes using on-line delivery).

The representative for UL is Dr. Eamonn de Barra, from the The Centre for Applied Biomedical Engineering Research (CABER) and Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering.

In EUCERMAT the University of Limerick is in charge of   E-learning activities and innovating pratices for blended mobility.