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Smart solutions for the West of Ireland Region – WDC secure Interreg EU seed funding for project development in Circular Economy, Literary Tourism and Smart mentoring Platform capability.

The Interreg Northern Periphery and Artic Programme (NPA), have confirmed that the WDC have secured €236,990 in seed project funding (https://www.interreg-npa.eu/news/bridging-call-project-decisions/ ), to develop smart solutions in emerging areas such as Literary tourism, Circular economy, and Online mentoring capability.

As stated by Ian Brannigan, Head of Regional Development, “This funding involves four projects, six European countries as well as dozens of regional partners and SMEs. In challenging times, it offers the region a means to collaborate on growing sectors that will influence our futures”

According to Tomás O’Siochain, WDC CEO, “These projects align with the ongoing work of the WDC through the development of the connectedhubs.ie network along the Atlantic Economic Corridor, the further development of the Creative Economy, these early-stage initiatives strengthen the role of the west as a region of innovation”

N-Lite [1](Literary Tourism Immersive Technology Acceleration) will scale and develop the NPA Literary Tourism (LT) sector. N-LiTe partners will jointly assess the potential for SMEs to uptake existing and advanced technologies to exploit their community’s abundance of literary, cultural, and natural resources.

HubMent[2] (Smart Mentoring Platform Capability for Regional Hubs) sees an extension and scaling of BizMentors Internationals service by building strategic partnerships with regional organisations and hubs to link mentoring and associated capabilities via digital platforms to key communities or groups of SMEs, e.g., in the Creative Economy (CREW Galway), in Food Innovation (BIA Innovate). In Ireland, the “connectedhubs.ie” organisation of 400 hubs will be involved in piloting the concept across the diverse range of SMEs located within them. Additionally, the project shall seek to extend the online mentoring model to the Social Enterprise realm.

Blue Circular Tech[3] (BCT) project will assist communities and SMEs who are interested in tackling marine plastic waste through the design, recycling, and upcycling of waste fishing gear. Both economically and culturally, fishing and aquaculture are central to the life of the Western region – by investigating new ways to create new economic opportunities within the circular economy, the BCT project will help to protect the future health of the sea and the communities who depend on it.

The GOALS[4] project, will bring together SMEs and larger companies who have a shared interested in improving the environmental and economic sustainability of their enterprises. Though sustainability is increasingly important to companies big and small, SMEs often lack the dedicated resources available to larger companies in setting and achieving such goals. The GOALS project will seek to aid SMEs from the Western region in pursuing sustainability goals which are appropriate to their resources and to the long-term aims of their business.

For more information on the Interreg NPA Programme, and upcoming calls for the new programme, visit https://www.interreg-npa.eu/ or for WDC EU updates https://westerndevelopment.ie/key-projects/european-projects/

[1] Project partners are Western Development Commission (WDC); Ireland, Irish Central Border Area Network (ICBAN); Northern Ireland,  Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) Finland: and associate partners Troms og Finnmark Fylkeskommune (TFFK), Norway and Regional Council of Kainuu (RCK); Finland.

[2] . The Western Development Commission (WDC) will lead the project along with partners in SCCUL Enterprises CLG (IE), Association of Municipalities in Northeast Iceland (IS) and Matís (IS).

[3] partners from Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and the UK (University for the Creative Arts)

[4] WDC will work with partners in Finland (Karelia University of Applied Sciences)

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