Shared Island Bioeconomy Demonstration Initiative 2024

The Shared Island Bioeconomy Demonstration Initiative 2024 is now open for applications

The €9 million call will support innovation for the agri-bioeconomy in Northern Ireland and the blue bioeconomy in Ireland. A North/South collaborative approach is essential in all applications.

This funding is relevant to stakeholders along the entire bio-based value chain, including small and medium sized businesses, research performing organisations, local authorities, primary producers, and others.

The funding will enable participants to build on existing, or establish new, cross-border collaborations, and develop proposals for agriculture or marine based bioeconomy activities on an all-island basis.

The initiative will support activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered, or improved products, processes, or services. For this purpose, they may include:

• prototyping
• testing
• demonstrating
• piloting
• large-scale product validation
• market replication

Applicants are encouraged to read the call specification and guidelines for applicants documents before making an application.

Briefing events

Two information events have been organised for prospective applicants to this call.

These events will include presentations by experts from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, as well as an opportunity for attendees to ask questions to an expert panel or via one-to-one clinics.

The first event will take place in Dundalk Institute of Technology on Friday 22 March 2024, 9:30am to 2pm. Register for the first event.

The second event will take place in Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Hillsborough on Friday 19 April 2024, 9:30am to 2pm. Register for the second event.

First published 19 March 2024