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

Working out ways to tackle age-related muscle loss

Sarcopenia, or age-related muscle loss, is a primary cause of loss of physical independence in the elderly, and the focus of one recent Horizon-funded research study. “The need for effective treatment strategies that can slow or reverse age-related muscle loss is essential if a future crisis is to be avoided,” says Dr Robert Radford, project lead of Pept-AGE at Nuritas.

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Seeing the big picture: CLEXM project opens doors for SiriusXT

For a generation of young readers, Sirius is best known as Harry Potter’s godfather. To those of a more scientific bent, it is the brightest star in the night sky. But to a small research elite, it is the Irish-based company behind a high-resolution microscope that can produce images of the internal structure of biological cells, SiriusXT.

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Building trust in the Internet of Things

When MTU were looking for an industry partner for a Horizon2020 project, it was the National Contact Point at Enterprise Ireland who introduced them to Klas initially, when looking for an Irish partner for SCOTT.

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7 New Calls for the JRC Open Access to Research Infrastructures

The JRC has launched 7 new calls with deadlines between February and March 2024 for accessing its research infrastructures: Actinide User Laboratories (ACTUSLAB, Karlsruhe – DE); Environmental and mechanical materials assessment (EMMA, Petten – NL); and the Hopkinson bar for structural assessments (ELSA, Ispra – IT).

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