The NRN ran a bioeconomy awareness campaign as part of Ireland Bioeconomy Week 2020 that ran from 19th-23rd October 2020. This pioneering initiative provided farmers and rural dwellers with an insight into the types of locally-led bioeconomy projects that the LEADER Programme, as well as the EIP-AGRI initiative are funding ‘on-the-ground’ at farm and community level, under Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020. Such an approach is particularly important as rural Ireland learns to adapt, rebuild and re-energize as part of Ireland’s COVID-19 crisis recovery response.
More information about Ireland’s Bioeconomy Week 2020 can be found here: https://irishbioeconomy.ucd.ie/biw/
Source: NRN
