A coalition of staff, students and graduates at the University of Galway plans to stage a further on-campus protest, calling on authorities there to end all links with Israeli companies and educational institutions.
The Campus Anti Genocide group will stage a demonstration at today's conferring ceremony.
It wants an immediate end to what it described as "collusion with Israeli genocide and apartheid".
In September, the university said contractual obligations meant it could not back out of a project involving the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.
The university is the co-ordinating partner in an ongoing research programme that involves the Haifa-based institution.
The ASTERISK research project is looking at ways to produce hydrogen from seawater. It is co-funded by the EU.
The Technion Institute is one of a number of third level institutions involved.
The agreement has been criticised by human rights campaigners, given Israeli actions in Gaza and Technion’s role in developing what it terms, "defence and security technologies".
While it has committed to not participate in any new agreements involving Israeli partners "until further notice", the university says it cannot withdraw from the ASTERISK project for legal reasons.
Campaigners say new university President David J Burn has failed to act on commitments to further investigate the deal. They are critical of what they say is his failure to provide evidence of the legal advice in relation to the project in question.
They say they will escalate their protest in the coming weeks, if the contract is not broken.
Today’s event is the latest in a series of demonstrations the group has staged, with additional calls for a reversal of the university’s position being made by the student representatives.
They say the ongoing situation "makes a mockery of the university’s commitment to race equality".
