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Courses
Courses
Choosing a course is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make! View our courses and see what our students and lecturers have to say about the courses you are interested in at the links below.
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University Life
University Life
Each year more than 4,000 choose NUI Galway as their University of choice. Find out what life at NUI Galway is all about here.
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About NUI Galway
About NUI Galway
Since 1845, NUI Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
NUI Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
NUI Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at NUI Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at NUI Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni, Friends & Supporters
Alumni, Friends & Supporters
There are over 90,000 NUI Galway graduates Worldwide, connect with us and tap into the online community.
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At NUI Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Right to use Personal Data
In order for it to be legal and appropriate for the University to process Personal Data or Special Categories of Personal Data at least one of the following conditions must be met:
a) The data subject has given his or her consent
b) The processing is required due to a contract
c) It is necessary due to a legal obligation
d) It is necessary to protect someone’s vital interests (i.e. life or death situation)
e) It is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
f) It is necessary for the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party and does not interfere with the rights and freedoms of the data subject (this condition cannot be used by public authorities in performance of their public tasks).
All processing of personal data carried out by the University must meet one or more of the conditions above.
Universities are classified as public authorities and therefore the use of the ‘legitimate interests’ justification is not possible in terms of the University’s core activities (public tasks). It may be possible to use legitimate interests for processing that is undertaken outside of the University’s public tasks.
In addition, the processing of ‘Special Categories of Personal Data’ of personal data requires extra, more stringent, conditions to be met in accordance with Article 9 of the GDPR. When processing special category data, we also need to have a further lawful basis for processing from the following list:
- that the data subject has given their explicit consent to the processing
- that the processing by the data controller is necessary in the field of employment
- that the processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another living individual, where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent
- that the processing relates to personal data that has been made public by the data subject
- that the processing is necessary for legal reasons
- that the processing is in the substantial public interest
- that the processing is necessary for occupational medicine
- that the processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health
- that the processing is necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research or statistical purposes.