We manage, organise and support annual and once-off events and training workshops for clients. We can organise events online and in-person.
Examples of events organised include GSI Researchers' Night, the Irish National Geothermal Summit, Irish Geological Reseach Meeting, convening sessions at the European Geoscience Union, project workshops and meetings, markets visits, training events for European funding programmes etc.
RML staff have organised union-wide debates and panel discussions at the European Geoscience Union, Europe's largest Eaeth and ocean sciences meeting now attended by 20,000 people. In 2020 we convened a Great Debate:
Managing our mineral resources for a sustainable future: The role of Earth scientists
and in 2024 a Union Symposium 'The EU Critical Raw Materials Act – how geoscientists can directly inform European policy and regulation'. A recording of this is available online.
In 2025, RML staff will co-convene a session on science supporting policy Strengthening Policy Through Science: Insights from the Interface
In collaboration with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies RML has supported the organisation of a joint workshop for the IMPROVE project (Marie Curie ETN), EPOS (ESFRI-ERIC research infrastructure) and Krafla Magma Testbed consortium. This meeting will bring together a large EU funded academic training network, researchers using the EPOS-ERIC research infrastructure and data sharing platforms, and an industry-academic joint venture to drill into a magma chamber in Iceland. The workshop brings together excellent researchers, industry experts and research infrastructure/data sharing experts to highlight the outputs of work and to develop further collaborations and funding opportunities for sustainable collaborations.
RML has organised seven GSI Researchers' Night since 2016. These have been a number of venues in Dublin, online in 2021 (due to Covid-19 restrictions) and events in Galway, Cork and Maynooth. These publicevents have showcased the research supported by Geoloical Survey Ireland and have focussed on themes such as coastal and marine research, groundwater, palaeobiology, volcano research and geological mapping.