Irish colleges and companies secure €251m of EU science funding
Government targets €1.25bn of total €75bn Horizon 2020 budget
Nearly 600science 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.
In the Marie Skłodowska-Curie sub-programme of Horizon 2020, which promotes the training ofresearchers, Ireland won €18.5 million, equivalent to 35 per cent of the available Marie Skłodowska-Curie budget. That brought Ireland's total from this sub-programme to €49 million.
