Maths Week Ireland
| Abbreviation | MWI |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founders | Sheila Donegan and Eoin Gill |
| Focus | promote awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths through a huge variety of events |
Area served | both parts of Ireland |
Key people | Sheila Donegan Director of CALMAST Eoin Gill Coordinator of MWI Cordula Weiss Programme Manager CALMAST Rosario Burke Educational Resources Manager Diane Murphey Educational Resources Manager Ben Dolan Digital Engagement Manager |
| Website | mathsweek.ie |
Maths Week Ireland (MWI) is an annual all-island (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) mathematics outreach initiative which takes place throughout Ireland each October. It was founded in 2006 by Waterford Institute of Technology (now SETU) staff members Eoin Gill and Sheila Donegan (based on an idea by Gill), and is a project of that institution's STEM outreach Centre for the Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology (CALMAST). Gill (an engineer) and Donegan (a chemist) continue to direct and run MWI.
In 2019 MWI engaged over 400,000 people on an island with a population of under 7 million and is arguably the world's largest mathematics festival.