Brigid Burke

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

Organisation: Enterprise Ireland

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.

GENEGUT project aims to transform treatment of ileal Crohn’s disease

Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll of University College Cork (UCC) has successfully secured EU funding under Horizon Europe as coordinator of GENEGUT: a project on oral delivery of encapsulated RNA nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of ileal Crohn’s disease.

Osteoarthritis cure is the goal for EU-funded AutoCRAT project

While Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most significant causes of disability worldwide, it has no known cure. A team at the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) at NUI Galway, along with European partners, is now seeking to change that.

Horizon Europe funding to support youth mental health

Three researchers have secured funding as partners in the Horizon Europe Health project ‘Youth-GEMs: Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth’, which aims to significantly reduce mental suffering and illness among European youth.

Preventing security threats from spreading like wildfire

“Cyber-attacks and physical attacks are real – they do happen,” explains Jenny Rainbird, Head of EU Project Delivery at Inlecom Commercial Pathways. The firm is project managing PRECINCT, a €9.5m project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, which aims to strengthen critical infrastructure resilience in the region.

Westmeath and Limerick host JRC “Science meets Regions” events

Westmeath County is the lead partner of a project on green and digital transitions within the JRC initiative “Science meets Regions”. Together with Limerick and the Hungarian region of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Westmeath will host events on issues of common interest such as the future of sustainable industries, the bioeconomy, and Social Innovation in relation with the recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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