EU stories

The BATPROTECT project, led by UCD's Professor Emma Teeling, has been awarded a 2023 European Research Council (ERC) synergy grant to look into the molecular mechanisms behind bats’ abilities to slow down ageing processes.

The Merry Mill, Ireland's first organic gluten-free oat mill has won a 2023 EU Organic Award in the category 'Best organic food processing SME'.

The winners of the 2023 BT Young Scientist Competition, Liam Carew and Shane O'Connor, have taken a second prize at this year's Contest for Young Scientists for their project: "Assessing the Impact of Second-Level Education on Key Aspects of Adolescents’ Life and Development".

There were 3 Irish inventors among the winners of this year's European Inventor Awards.

Ripple, an urban transformation project from Ballina, Co. Mayo, has won the New European Bauhaus Prize 2023 in the ‘Reconnecting with nature' category.

The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) is one of 28 winners of the 2023 European Heritage Awards, announced in June by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage network.

A new EU-funded pedestrian and cycle bridge has been officially inaugurated in Galway City.

CETA, the EU-Canada Trade Agreement, is helping Irish knitwear company IrelandsEye to significantly grow its exports to Canada.

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.

Involve is the main provider of youth work services to young Travellers, and young people from marginalised backgrounds, in Ireland.

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