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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 is a collaborative, transnational project that aims to investigate how festivals and events affect the inclusivity of public spaces
- Project locations
- Ireland
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, United Kingdom
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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
![Cows in field](https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-03/farm-ireland.jpg?itok=c5NLnjRF)
The EU-backed LIFE Beef Carbon project is helping to reduce the carbon footprint from Irish beef farms
- Project locations
- Ireland, France, Italy, Spain
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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
![Students from Templemore College who took part in the Erasmus programme](https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/erasmus_EU45_1.jpg?itok=KihJdavR)
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
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The EU-backed Kerry Way app has given a new lease of life to the county's many beautiful walkways
- Project locations
- Ireland
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, United Kingdom
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Syrian refugees are putting down new roots in Ireland through their participation in a social farming initiative in Mayo
- Project locations
- Ireland
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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
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Irish participants in an EU funded project are shedding light on the darkest depths of the North Atlantic maritime region
- Project locations
- Ireland
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
![Drumsna Bridge in Co Leitrim](https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-06/Drumsna-Bridge2-1030x687.jpg?itok=daSU7tCC)
EU funding has helped reconstruct a railway bridge in Leitrim thereby leading to improved rail journey times between Sligo and Dublin.
- Project locations
- Ireland
Find out about Ireland's destinations of sustainable tourism which have been awarded the European Destination of Excellence label
- Project locations
- 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
![View of one of the Aran Islands](https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-04/aran-islands-ireland-content-bank.jpg?itok=CYnOnVFP)
Islands off the coast of Ireland are set to become more self-sufficient, prosperous and sustainable thanks to an EU clean energy initiative.
- Project locations
- Ireland
![Social housing in Dublin](https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2021-03/social-housing-dublin.jpg?itok=6t9OSn1Y)
Financing from the European Investment Bank is helping speed up the roll out of social housing in the greater Dublin area.
- Project locations
- Ireland
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.
- Project locations
- Ireland
The AranLIFE project blends scientific expertise with local farming practices to nurture the habitats of rare species on the Aran Islands.
- Project locations
- Ireland