Our Story

Located in the heart of International Financial Services Centre in Dublin, the Cloud Competency Centre at National College of Ireland (NCI) is setting the standards in excellence for teaching and research in cloud computing.

Learn more about the CCC's mission, vision and goals.

Our dedicated state-of the art facilities support comprehensive evaluation, grassroots incubation, and seamless adoption of cloud technologies for didactic, commercial, and research purposes. The centre's purposeful settings foster innovative thinking to fully harness the potential of cloud computing. We are actively collaborating with key educational and industrial partners to continuously enhance our instruction, research, and commercial portfolio beyond the traditional boundaries of academia.

What We Do

Aimed to support Irish industry taking a lead in the global cloud computing space, the centre provides teaching, research and entrepreneurship skills through a mutually beneficial collaboration of experts from industry and academia.

Our Vision

We want to establish NCI as an internationally recognised leader in cloud computing to meet current and future educational and innovation needs of organisations and individuals.

Our Mission

Our mission is to advance knowledge and educate scholars and practitioners in Cloud Computing to serve Ireland and the world in the 21st century.

Our People

The Cloud Competency Centre is fully staffed through the School of Computing and headed by Dr Horacio González-Vélez. Our advanced facilities foster comprehensive evaluation, incubation, and adoption of cloud technology for educational, commercial, and research purposes. In global collaboration, we spearhead a pan-European consortium under the Digital Europe Programme, actively partnering with academic institutions, industry, and MSE leaders. Committed to innovation, we develop master programs, shaping practices on a European scale.