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Regional development

How Enterprise Ireland supports regions

Irish-owned businesses are economic cornerstones in communities around the country. They create and sustain jobs in local economies, provide a platform for strong economic growth and contribute to national prosperity. 

Past Funds

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Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre of Excellence (AMTCE)

  1. Louth
  2. BEDF

The focus of the AMTCE is to address the skills needs in the high value manufacturing and technology sectors, provide more modular and flexible training courses that can be used to upskill and reskill the existing workforce.

 

BIA Innovator Campus

  1. Galway
  2. REDF

BIA Innovator Campus is Ireland’s leading food incubation and innovation campus supporting ambitious food businesses through state-of-the-art food production facilities coupled with the technological and business supports needed to promote innovation and scaling.

Creative Spark- FabLab

  1. Louth
  2. REDF

This project provides access to a suite of state-of-the-art digital fabrication hardware and software co-located with a thriving enterprise centre.

Future Cast

  1. Leitrim
  2. BEDF

This project meets industry needs by offering solutions and employing methodologies to deliver impact for industry companies, employing new technologies, automation and increasing operational efficiencies in manufacturing processes in an ever-changing global market. 

Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI)

  1. Clare
  2. REDF

The aim of this project is to establish a transport testbed for Ireland, harnessing data to inform new mobility innovations. 

  1. Dublin
  2. REDF

The Shared Kitchen facility is an open-plan kitchen space designed to support 10-12 incubating, early-stage startups and scaling food businesses simultaneously.  The management team offers business support, mentoring, training, workshops, and networking opportunities within a vibrant food community. Additionally, The Shared Kitchen supports marginalised groups by providing the facility for training and cooking for charitable purposes. 

PorterShed

  1. Galway
  2. REDF

The aim of this Innovation Tech Hub is to create high value tech sustainable jobs (especially indigenous tech) in the west of Ireland. They are also big supporters of welcoming multinational companies to use the PorterShed office spaces as landing bases. They want companies to use the space to start their ideas, grow, and scale.

Inishowen Innovation (ii)

  1. Donegal
  2. REDF

The aim of this project was to create an innovation ecosystem in Inishowen, Co. Donegal, by delivering an enterprise capacity building programme, based on cross-fertilising the peninsula’s high-tech skillsets and applied research potential in traditional sectors, focused around a new Inishowen Innovation hub (The ii). 

Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC)

  1. Dublin
  2. REDF

The Guinness Enterprise Centre provides a world-class enterprise and co-working centre of excellence for start-ups. It offers a free “home from home” facility to start-ups based in over a dozen enterprise and incubation centres all over the country, who wish to have a work base for a few days while in Dublin. 

AIM Centre

  1. Sligo
  2. REDF

The AIM Centre is Ireland’s National Innovation Centre for Manufacturing SMEs, focused on digitalisation, Industry 4.0, and AI adoption. The AI Studio @ AIM is designed to accelerate AI adoption in Irish manufacturing, providing SMEs with hands-on demonstrations, training, and advisory services. 

  1. Kerry
  2. REDF

RDI Hub is a not-for-profit Public Private Partnership with the mission to build on regional strengths in the South West of Ireland and improve the capability and competitiveness of regional enterprises and encourage entrepreneurial activity, productivity, and innovative capability in the region. 

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