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RSSArtificial 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.
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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.
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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.
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A Cork-based EU funded research project is looking into the growing problem posed by the disposal of obsolete wind turbine blades.
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- Ireland
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The European Commission has the addition of ‘Achill Island Sea Salt‘ to the register of Protected Designations of Origin (PDO). ‘Achill Island Sea Salt’ is the name given to naturally harvested sea salt from the waters around Achill Island, Co Mayo.
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The European Commission has selected Dublin as the winner of the EU’s 2024 European Capital of Smart Tourism competition.
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The European Commission has added ‘Irish Grass Fed Beef’ to the register of Protected Geographical Indications, signifying the fourth EU Geographical Indication awarded to the entire island of Ireland - comprising Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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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.
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- Ireland, Germany, Singapore
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'.
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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".
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There were 3 Irish inventors among the winners of this year's European Inventor Awards.
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Ripple, an urban transformation project from Ballina, Co. Mayo, has won the New European Bauhaus Prize 2023 in the ‘Reconnecting with nature' category.
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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.
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A new EU-funded pedestrian and cycle bridge has been officially inaugurated in Galway City.
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CETA, the EU-Canada Trade Agreement, is helping Irish knitwear company IrelandsEye to significantly grow its exports to Canada.
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- Ireland