Brigid is the recently appointed National Contact Point for Legal and Financial rules and Senior Executive for Horizon Europe at Enterprise Ireland. She previously held a senior role in Enterprise Ireland's Corporate Marketing and Communications department with responsibility for communications strategy, social media strategy, PR and media relations and was the project-lead for an international digital marketing campaign to promote the Irish travel-tech sector. Her early career was in broadcast journalism, working full-time in national radio and television.
As the world seeks to tackle global warming, the search for a cleaner way to fly is in full flight, with one EU-funded project seeking to transform air travel by developing innovative hybrid-electric aircraft technology for regional aircraft. The HECATE project consortium is made up of 37 partners including key aviation players like Collins Aerospace.
Read MoreCellMembrane, 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.
Read MoreAdditive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is a groundbreaking technology that has significantly impacted various industries, including healthcare. Irish company Croom Medical is at the cutting edge, utilizing these advancements to produce custom orthopaedic implants. Discover how the company has grown into the AM market by participating in a EUREKA project.
Read MoreAs a leader in air traffic management (ATM) telecommunications, Airtel has worked in partnership with other European companies on the Horizon Europe-funded Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) initiative since its inception under FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013).
Read MoreEdge AI focuses on implementing AI in an edge computing environment, allowing computations to be done close to where data is collected rather than at a centralised cloud computing facility or an offsite data centre. It is a key feature in many of the small devices that are found in homes, offices, factories and workspaces. Advancing this technology is the aim of NeuroSoC, a Horizon Europe funded project that includes 12 partners from 9 countries across Europe, including the UK and Switzerland.
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