Projects

Artificial Intelligence and the creation of a new EU-funded smartphone app will offer Irish food growers quicker and cheaper ways to check the health status of their plants' roots.

Ireland's Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme was the winner of the 2024 European Heritage Award in the Working Together for Nature category. Established in 2008, the Scheme was set up to address the rapid changes in agricultural practice and the subsequent loss of traditional farm buildings.

A multi-million euro EU-funded project in the North-West of Ireland combines care for the environment and better agricultural practices with education and support for local communities.

A Cork-based EU funded research project is looking into the growing problem posed by the disposal of obsolete wind turbine blades.

Two giant ship-to-shore cranes, named Mahain and Binne by local school children, dominate the skyline of the Port of Cork’s new EU-backed container terminal in Ringaskiddy.

A multi-million euro EU-funded project in Cork is set to boost security of energy supply and optimise the use of renewables all while reducing energy bills and creating jobs for the local economy.

When holiday home developments started pricing local families out of the housing market in the picturesque fishing village of Baltimore in west Cork, financing from the European Investment Bank came to the aid of residents.

What do Cork and Udine in Northern Italy have in common? Apart from many happy European citizens, they're both part of an exciting EU-funded project to revamp their urban environments.

Nature is one step closer to being restored in the picturesque Bride Valley in north-east Cork and west Waterford thanks to an innovative EU-funded agri-environmental pilot project.