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Irelands Eye: Knitwear eyed by Canada
CETA, the EU-Canada Trade Agreement, is helping Irish knitwear company IrelandsEye to significantly grow its exports to Canada.
- Project locations
- Ireland

Flahavan’s Oats: An Irish family business exporting to South Korea
Find out about how Flahavan's, Ireland's oldest family-run food business, has been able to grow exports of its oat-based products in East Asia thanks to the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement.
- Project locations
- Ireland

Involve: Working for a more inclusive society
Involve is the main provider of youth work services to young Travellers, and young people from marginalised backgrounds, in Ireland.
- Project locations
- Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland
European Heritage Award for Dublin Civic Trust
A flagship conservation project led by Dublin Civic Trust and supported by Dublin City Council has won a European Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2021
- Project locations
- Ireland

Meade Potato Company prevents food loss on the farm
The Meade Potato Company is helping to tackle food waste by re-purposing leftover crops for donation to food charities and for stock feed
- Project locations
- Ireland
FESTSPACE - promoting social inclusion in public spaces
FESTSPACE is a collaborative, transnational project that aims to investigate how festivals and events affect the inclusivity of public spaces
- Project locations
- Ireland
Teaching numeracy through soccer
More Than A Club is an EU-funded programme that aims to promote social inclusion and teach numeracy to young students through soccer
- Project locations
- Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom

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

EU Life programme helps farmers to reduce carbon emissions from beef
The EU-backed LIFE Beef Carbon project is helping to reduce the carbon footprint from Irish beef farms
- Project locations
- Ireland, France, Italy, Spain

EU funding helps regenerate Dunhill in Co Waterford
EU Leader funding helps transform Dunhill-Fenor into a dynamic socioeconomic ecosystem and a model of best practice in bottom-up regeneration
- Project locations
- Ireland

Templemore College of Further Education’s Erasmus success
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
- Project locations
- Ireland

EU funding supports innovative Kerry Way app
The EU-backed Kerry Way app has given a new lease of life to the county's many beautiful walkways
- Project locations
- Ireland
Journeys lead to better understanding
Thanks to the EU’s PEACE IV programme, students from the border region have been empowered through active learning activities to find common ground
- Project locations
- Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom

New Irish roots for refugee farmers from Syria
Syrian refugees are putting down new roots in Ireland through their participation in a social farming initiative in Mayo
- Project locations
- Ireland

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

Mapping the deep blue sea
Irish participants in an EU funded project are shedding light on the darkest depths of the North Atlantic maritime region
- Project locations
- Ireland
BirdWatch battles to save the Curlew
With EU support, Birdwatch Ireland is using pioneering measures to improve breeding outcomes on both farmland and bogs for the endangered curlew
- Project locations
- Ireland, Ireland

Bridging the gap in Leitrim
EU funding has helped reconstruct a railway bridge in Leitrim thereby leading to improved rail journey times between Sligo and Dublin.
- Project locations
- Ireland
European Destinations of Excellence
Find out about Ireland's destinations of sustainable tourism which have been awarded the European Destination of Excellence label
- Project locations
- Ireland
EULife programme ensures future for endangered corkcrake in Ireland
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.
- Project locations
- Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland