€18.75m funding recommended for two Ente...Jul 1, 2025 European Innovation CouncilTwo Enterprise Ireland-backed companies have won funding approvals of up to €18.75m in the latest competition under Horizon Europe’s European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Programme. The two successful companies are CroíValve and Lios. Read More
Chipping away at the AI of the futureMar 26, 2024 Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and SpaceEdge 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. NeuroSoC, a Horizon Europe funded project that includes 12 partners from 9 countries across Europe, including the UK and Switzerland. Read More
5G-STARDUST: building the networks of th...Mar 6, 2024 Horizon EuropeThe 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. Read More
Working out ways to tackle age-related m...Feb 7, 2024 Cluster 1 HealthSarcopenia, 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. Read More
Seeing the big picture: CLEXM project op...Jan 10, 2024 Horizon EuropeFor 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. Read More
Working with cobots: ONE4ALL imagines th...Jul 25, 2023 Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and SpaceDeveloping 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. Read More
Ireland ranks second in Horizon Europe E...Mar 30, 2023 European Innovation Council30 March 2023 – Ireland has ranked second in Europe in the latest funding competition under Horizon Europe’s European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Programme. Three Irish-based companies have been approved €22.4m according to evaluation results released by the European Commission. Read More
EU funding enables Ovagen to tackle glob...Dec 6, 2022 European Innovation CouncilWith the support of €3.4m in European Research and shareholder matched funding, Irish biotech firm Ovagen Group Ltd has succeeded in producing a world-first product that can significantly boost the global production of vaccines. Read More
