 One of the initiatives of this program is introducing social media and even the first contact that we have with our students is via Facebook. Another initiative is Induction Week. Students are welcomed by the head of school and the head of department, then they take a tour of all our labs so they have an idea of what they are going to do, then they are involved in a small group project because we realize that the social integration is as important as the academic integration so we like them to work in groups to make friends first week that they are in our college. Another aspect of our retention program is attendance monitoring and mentoring and all students are encouraged to discuss any issues that they might have with their mentor. One important initiative that we have introduced is what we call the Motivational Week. They do visits to industry, they discuss with fourth year students, they might be given presentations by people that are working in industry, former graduates of GMIT and the week will finish with a social event when all are engaged. We've collected feedback from all these initiatives and we've seen retention has improved in the last couple of years so we don't want to stop here. We have in mind an integrated project where different modules come together and there is a fourth year student at the moment working on the specifications for this project and we are hoping to launch it next year with first years.