Belfast based IT integration specialists, Asidua, launched (in 2008) in co-operation with both Queen’s University and the University of Ulster, the Asidua Scholarship Programme. Its aims were to attract fresh talent into the IT sector and to support new IT and engineering students, both professionally and financially, during their academic studies. Year 14 leaver, Charlotte McG has been awarded a scholarship to study Computer Science at the Queen’s University of Belfast. The Asidua Scholarship is worth £25,000.