Success Stories

Success stories from businesses and other organisations who have accessed European funding and support for their innovation projects.

This collection brings together real-life examples of Irish organisations using the Horizon programme to develop their innovative ideas. It includes how they have benefited from working with international partners and gaining access to EU funding support.

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Bio-based artificial lungs to change patients’ lives
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Bio-based artificial lungs to change pat...

by Brigid Burke | Sep 4, 2024

European Innovation Council

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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Innovation at the edge – Dell Technologies
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Innovation at the edge – Dell Tech...

by Paula Vigueras | Jul 17, 2024

Horizon Europe

The €16m BRAINE project was established to develop a modular edge computing platform, integrating big data processing and AI-driven use cases, with both a hardware and software element. Co-funded by the EU’s ECSEL Joint Undertaking under Horizon 2020, and the National Funding Agencies of the Participating Countries, it involved 27 different companies and universities in 14 Participating States.

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Chipping away at the AI of the future
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Chipping away at the AI of the future

by Brigid Burke | Mar 26, 2024

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Edge 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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5G-STARDUST: building the networks of the future
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5G-STARDUST: building the networks of th...

by Brigid Burke | Mar 6, 2024

Horizon Europe

The ability to easily connect to the internet is increasingly taken for granted in the developed world. But the latest United Nations study found that a third of the world’s population remains unconnected to the World Wide Web, with those in poor and remote areas most affected. 5G-STARDUST, or Satellite and Terrestrial Access for Distributed, Ubiquitous, and Smart Telecommunications, is a Horizon Europe-funded project that may help to tackle the digital divide.

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Working with cobots: ONE4ALL imagines the industrial future
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Working with cobots: ONE4ALL imagines th...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Jul 25, 2023

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Developing cobots, or mobile collaborative robots that can safely operate beside humans in the workplace, is the challenge ONE4ALL, a Horizon Europe funded project, has set itself. The project aims to help manufacturing plants, particularly small and medium-sized ones, transition towards Industry 5.0. This is the EU vision of the industrial future, one that embraces green and digital technologies and sees people working more closely with robots and smart machines.

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EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’ AI work
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EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 27, 2022

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ever more embedded in business and society, the EU has declared the need for a ‘human-centric’ approach to AI. TU Dublin has teamed up with 13 partners from across Europe to create ‘CISC’ (Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems), a MSCA Innovative Training Network project. Funded by Horizon 2020, the project aims to hire, train and mentor early-stage researchers as collaborative intelligence (CI) scientists.

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Charting a Course for Clean Aviation
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Charting a Course for Clean Aviation

by | Oct 1, 2024 | ,

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.

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Bio-based artificial lungs to change patients’ lives
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Bio-based artificial lungs to change patients’ lives

by | Sep 4, 2024 | , , ,

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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Croom Medical at the cutting edge of Additive Manufactuing
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Croom Medical at the cutting edge of Additive Manufactuing

by | Jul 17, 2024 | , ,

Additive 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.

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