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FLIARA: Challenging gender stereotypes around farm and rural innovation

FLIARA: Challenging gender stereotypes a...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 6 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

The Horizon Europe-funded FLIARA project has shone a spotlight on the often hidden and undervalued contribution made by women innovators to agriculture and rural communities across Ireland and Europe. The project explores the challenges faced by women innovators in this sphere and has produced policy recommendations on how best to tap into this vast underutilised resource.

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Rural BioReFarmeries: Supporting sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy development and building resilient rural areas

Rural BioReFarmeries: Supporting sustain...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 6 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

The Rural BioReFarmeries project, funded by Horizon Europe, aims to boost Ireland’s rural economy and bioeconomy by extracting more value from grassland. It transforms grass into bio-based products like protein, flavourings, antimicrobial additives, packaging, and fertilises, while still supplying livestock feed. Residues from production can be used to generate renewable energy, delivering both economic and environmental benefits.

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VIGILANT: Developing the tools to defeat disinformation

VIGILANT: Developing the tools to defeat...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

An Irish-led Horizon Europe-funded project is putting new tools in the hands of European law enforcement agencies to help them in their battle against disinformation campaigns linked to criminal activity. The €4 million VIGILANT project will create a platform containing over 30 different tools which help to detect, analyse and tackle disinformation in multiple formats, from multiple channels, and in multiple languages.

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Horizon Europe Project GoGreen Next

Horizon Europe Project GoGreen Next

by Kuti Lauryn

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

Watch Our latest Youtube video here – GoGreen Next is a Horizon Europe-funded project that will futureproof urban health across Europe and North America. Led by psychologist Tadhg MacIntyre at Maynooth University in Ireland, the project aims “to accelerate our efforts to address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity and environmental degradation and human health in the urban context”.

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Bio-based artificial lungs to change patients’ lives

Bio-based artificial lungs to change pat...

by Brigid Burke

Cluster 1 Health

CellMembrane, a Horizon Europe project led by Irish medtech firm Smart Reactors, is developing a nanocellulose membrane that could transform the fortunes of those with lung disease around the world. “We’re taking woody plant matter, effectively like sawdust, processing it at a nanoscale level and building a scaffold that will act as an artificial lung,” explains Mark Brassil, Smart Reactor’s co-founder and CTO.

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