Brigid Burke

National Contact Point (NCP) for Horizon Europe Legal and Financial rules

Organisation: Enterprise Ireland

Brigid is the National Contact Point for Horizon Europe’s Legal and Financial rules, a Senior Executive in the Research Internationalisation department and programme manager for Enterprise Ireland’s suite of Horizon Europe support grants including the ERC, Coordinator and Travel supports. She previously held a senior role in Enterprise Ireland's Corporate Marketing and Communications department with responsibility for communications strategy, social media, public relations, and stakeholder and media engagement. Earlier in her career, she worked as a broadcast journalist in national radio and television.

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Articles by Brigid

Harnessing digital tech to slash energy use in manufacturing

Harnessing digital tech to slash energy use in manufacturing, the EU-funded DENiM project is developing an integrated toolchain for the provision of advanced digital services for smart energy management. Funded to the tune of €11m by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

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The next pandemic: ensuring a coherent EU response

Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme to the tune of €10 million, PANDEM-2 aims to enhance and harmonise pandemic response across the EU. Effectively, Connolly says, the project will give EU member states a training platform for pandemic preparedness and response.

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Steering the way to better electric vehicle batteries

The drive to Net Zero and the need for all of us to help reduce emissions means that electric vehicles (EVs) need to become completely commonplace. The rate of EV uptake needs to improve, however, and for that to happen, EV batteries need to be cheaper, recharge faster and enable vehicles to go further without needing to be charged.

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