Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is ranked second among software research centres worldwide ... for citations. It partners with four of the top 10 technology companies in the world. Lero brings together leading software research teams from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland in a coordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus. Lero’s focus is on how to develop, modify, and enhance software, and on new techniques to allow software to enhance itself automatically, without risk to its performance, reliability, or security. Lero also emphasises responsible software engineering - software for the world we want. Since it was established in 2005, Lero has raised the level and profile of Irish software research with such effect that it is now one of the best-known and highly-regarded software-related research centres in the world. Lero's partner institutions include University of Limerick, NUI Galway, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, University College Cork, Munster Technological University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Waterford Institute of Technology, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology. Lero researchers engage directly with more than 10,000 members of the public every year and has introduced software and computer science programmes in the Irish education system from primary to graduate level. read more