SETU Waterford Science Careers Day

Date : Fri 14 Mar

SETU Arena

SETU Waterford is looking forward to the Science Careers Day, to be held at the SETU Arena on Friday, 14 March 2025. The recipient of the 2025 Una McDermott Award for Contribution to Science will be announced, and will address final-year students from our full portfolio of science programmes, including:

Agriculture
Agricultural Science
Food Science with Business/Food Science and Innovation
Molecular Biology with Biopharmaceutical Science
Pharmaceutical Science
Physics for Modern Technology
Horticulture
Forestry

These students are currently engaged in the final year of an ordinary (three-year, Level 7) or honours (four-year, Level 8) degree and will be available for work in June 2025.

This is an ideal opportunity for employers to engage directly with highly-skilled individuals who have been trained to meet the demands of modern industry. The majority of the morning will be devoted to a networking event where employers can meet students and discuss career opportunities. Each employer attending will receive a Careers Day Graduate Handbook containing information on approximately 270 students, including a short biography and contact details (see “Student Profiles” tab for examples from previous years).

Schedule

9.00am Opening of event
9.05am Keynote address: Recipient of 2025 Una McDermott Contribution to Science Award
9.40am Breakout sessions (concurrent) for each discipline:
- Agriculture/Agricultural Science
- Food Science with Business/Food Science and Innovation
- Forestry
- Horticulture
- Molecular Biology with Biopharmaceutical Science
- Pharmaceutical Science
- Physics for Modern Technology
10.40am Networking session with tea/coffee
1.00pm Event concludes

The event is FREE for employers/companies to attend and have a stand. However, in order to cover the costs of running the event, we do ask companies to consider sponsorship. The options are:

€500 sponsorship - includes a full-page ad in our Graduate Handbook, plus company logo displayed on the digital signage on the day and on our event webpage.
€200 sponsorship – includes company logo displayed in the Graduate Handbook, on the digital signage on the day, and on our event webpage.

Please contact Eleanor Reade in the School of Science and Computing – [email protected]

Final-year students from our full portfolio of science and land science programmes, including Agriculture, Pharmaceutical Science, Forestry, Molecular Biology with Biopharmaceutical Science, Physics, Horticulture, Food Science, and Ag Science. These students are currently engaged in the final year of an honours (four-year, Level 8) or ordinary (three-year, Level 7) degree and will be available for work in June 2025. Each employer will also receive a Careers Day Graduate Handbook containing information on approximately 280 students, including a short biography and contact details.

Sponsorship options are:

€500 sponsorship - includes a full-page ad in our Graduate Handbook, plus company logo displayed on the digital signage on the day and on our event webpage.
€200 sponsorship – includes company logo displayed in the Graduate Handbook, on the digital signage on the day, and on our event webpage.

If your company would like to sponsor, we can organise an invoice and payment by PO or credit card. Please contact Eleanor Reade in the School of Science and Computing: [email protected]

The SETU Arena is on our West (Carriganore) campus – this is NOT the main SETU Waterford campus on the Cork Rd. Please use Eircode X91 XD96 or set GPS for “SETU Arena”.

Parking is free at the SETU Arena carpark on a first-come, first-serve basis. Free parking is also available in the Greenway carpark just across the road.

Each company will be allocated a table (either 10 x 8 ft rectangular, or high round 6 ft), fitted with a tablecloth colour-coded according to industry area. You may set up pull-up stands etc behind the table.

The networking session will happen in the main hall of the SETU Arena between 10.40 and 1pm (Link to schedule tab). You are free to arrive as early as you'd like, and of course if you'd like to hear any of the talks you're welcome to attend those, but for those of you who are coming just for the networking session you'll need to be in place for about 10.30am, presumably with your pull up stands set up behind your table etc. We do ask you to please be as quiet as possible when setting up, because the final third of the hall will be being used for talks between 9am and when the networking session starts, and there is only a light material partition between the sections, so any noise being made in the networking area at that time will be heard, and it can be off-putting for speakers. Of course, some small amount of noise is inevitable, but we'd really appreciate it if you could make an effort to set up as quietly as possible.

Tea/coffee will be available to companies on arrival, and throughout the networking session. We will also be offering a sit-down lunch in the restaurant upstairs at 1pm to any company representatives who can make it.