Shared Island AgriFood

Educate + Innovate was the lead consultant on AgriFood Infrastructure Enabling Growth, an initiative of Galway County Council (lead) partnered with Leitrim County Council and Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to develop Excellence Centres in Food Innovation and Agritech. Funded as a feasibility assessment under the Shared Island Development Funding Scheme, the project supports the progression of new joint investment projects by cross-border Local Authority partnerships that can link funding streams from North and South and deliver shared regional development goals.

Over the course of almost a year, working with dozens of stakeholders, AgriFood Infrastructure Enabling Growth provides an impetus to initiate new investment projects across 3 key themes that can link funding streams from North and South and better deliver regional development goals within the context of the Shared Island investment priorities:-