Government targets €1.25bn of total €75bn Horizon 2020 budget

Nearly 600 science projects run through colleges and companies in Ireland won have won funding worth €251 million from the Horizon 2020 programme, the Minister for Skills, Research & Innovation, Damien English, has announced.

Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s programme for Research and Innovation, and it has granted €157 million of that funding to projects in the higher education system and €72 million to companies based in Ireland, English said.

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May I send my very best wishes for St Patrick’s Day to the people of Ireland and to our global family and friends around the world.  I do so with particular warmth in this year when we commemorate the centenary of one of the most significant events in our nation’s journey to independence – the Easter Rising of 1916.

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