Marine Institute's Industry-Led Awards workshop

The Marine Institute are hosting an Industry-Led Awards virtual workshop on Wednesday the 14th of April from 10am - 1pm.

Industry-Led Awards provides funding to SMEs under the Marine Research Programme. The Industry-Led Awards provide assistance for appropriate research activities that support the goals of Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth and are in line with the research themes identified in the National Marine R&I Strategy. The Awards aim to fulfill national strategic objectives as follows:

• National Marine Research and Innovation Strategy 2017-2021 - Implementation of Action 8 Increase opportunities of SMEs to participate in marine research.
• Innovation 2020 - Action point 22.4 Optimising Enterprise RDI Supports.

The funding aims to:

• Support research and innovation costs for the development of innovative technologies, products ad services from existing or new marine-based business.
• Help marine companies to develop capacity, capability and their networks and relationships.
• Support "novel" marine research that has not previously received funding to create new knowledge or a new product, process or service or to substantially improve existing products, processes or services.

The full agenda is available here.  Attendees can register by sending an email to veronica.cunningham@marine.ie or funding@marine.ie.