The Creating Our Future Roadshow, which kicks off tomorrow in Co. Wicklow, will visit Galway on the morning of Monday 11 October.
The government-led national brainstorm will involve a conversation on the role research can and should play in addressing opportunities, challenges and hopes for the future.
Creating Our Future is asking people to submit their ideas about what researchers in Ireland should explore to create a better future through the dedicated online portal, which is open until 30 November.
The Roadshow will be pulling up in towns across the country and will encourage members of the public to engage in a conversation with researchers over a cup of coffee, and to submit an idea about an opportunity or challenge in their lives, community, Ireland or the world.
Encouraging people to visit the roadshow, Minister Simon Harris said: “Over the course of the pandemic, we were reminded starkly of how much of our daily lives depend on the efforts of researchers to secure our economy, wellbeing, and health.
“As a forward-thinking country, we must ask how research can help meet the opportunities and challenges facing our society over the coming years. Creating our Future opens up this question to all.
“This roadshow will engage people right across our country in this vital campaign. Everyone, everywhere, can have an idea for a better future. I look forward to hearing them.”
