Funding for technology start ups announced at Offsite event

Donal Cahalane, Next Big Thing; Conor O’Neill, LouderVoice and David Tuohy, WCDP at the Offsite event. Pic: Clare Keogh

NEW funding opportunities for technology start-ups and businesses were announced recently at the Offsite conference held in Rosscarbery.

West Cork Development Partnership (WCDP) are actively supporting the development of a cluster of tech entrepreneurs and business starts ups in the West Cork region. [Read more...]

Public consultation on “Our Ocean Wealth”

Simon Coveney

MARINE Minister Simon Coveney has launched a public consultation process on how to harness the potential of Ireland’s vast marine resource to tap into a Trillion Euro global market for marine products and services (including seafood, tourism, shipping, oil and gas, renewable ocean energy and new applications for health, medicine and technology).

Launching the public consultation “Our Ocean Wealth”, Minister Coveney said that Ireland needs to change the way we think about the sea and look for new opportunities to harness the potential of our 220 million acre marine resource.

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-This project is supported by the West Cork Development Partnership under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 -