Minister Hackett announces €17.5 million in Environmental Sustainability funding

Minister Pippa Hackett has today (November 5) announced a fund of €17.5 million available for European Innovation Partnership projects under the general theme of Environmental Sustainability.

The aim of the fund is to encourage innovative proposals to address some of the main environmental challenges currently being faced on Irish farms.

Minister Hackett said: "Soil health, short supply chains and regenerative agriculture are among the areas in which we are encouraging proposals, and my hope is that the successful projects will deliver learnings and approaches that can be rolled out at scale in future agri-environmental schemes."

Under this scheme, the sixth under the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027, interested parties are invited to submit proposals for projects to address a range of topics under the broad heading of Environmental Sustainability.

The EIP model to date has shown how the bottom-up approach to innovation on Irish farms can and does work.

"At this decisive moment in time for policy development in environmental sustainability to support truly resilient farming systems, I am very excited to see the ideas that emerge from this latest call."