EU stories

A flagship conservation project led by Dublin Civic Trust and supported by Dublin City Council has won a European Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2021

The Meade Potato Company is helping to tackle food waste by re-purposing leftover crops for donation to food charities and for stock feed

FESTSPACE is a collaborative, transnational project that aims to investigate how festivals and events affect the inclusivity of public spaces

More Than A Club is an EU-funded programme that aims to promote social inclusion and teach numeracy to young students through soccer

Creative Europe Media funding has helped Crossing the Line, one of Ireland’s leading documentary filmmakers, develop into an award-winning enterprise

The EU-backed LIFE Beef Carbon project is helping to reduce the carbon footprint from Irish beef farms

EU Leader funding helps transform Dunhill-Fenor into a dynamic socioeconomic ecosystem and a model of best practice in bottom-up regeneration

When the Erasmus programme began in TCFE, just three students went to France on exchange. That number has grown to 70 and Erasmus is still growing

The EU-backed Kerry Way app has given a new lease of life to the county's many beautiful walkways

Thanks to the EU’s PEACE IV programme, students from the border region have been empowered through active learning activities to find common ground

Syrian refugees are putting down new roots in Ireland through their participation in a social farming initiative in Mayo

CETA - the EU’s new trade agreement with Canada - has opened some great export opportunities for The Shed Distillery in Drumshanbo in Co Leitrim

Irish participants in an EU funded project are shedding light on the darkest depths of the North Atlantic maritime region

With EU support, Birdwatch Ireland is using pioneering measures to improve breeding outcomes on both farmland and bogs for the endangered curlew

EU funding has helped reconstruct a railway bridge in Leitrim thereby leading to improved rail journey times between Sligo and Dublin.

Find out about Ireland's destinations of sustainable tourism which have been awarded the European Destination of Excellence label

The EU LIFE programme is ensuring the future of the corncrake as a successful breeding bird in Ireland, providing €4.3m in funding to the NPWS.

Islands off the coast of Ireland are set to become more self-sufficient, prosperous and sustainable thanks to an EU clean energy initiative.

Financing from the European Investment Bank is helping speed up the roll out of social housing in the greater Dublin area.

The EU-funded CREST project at Waterford Institute of Technology has discovered new ways to improve vision using key nutrients found in fruit and veg.