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Funding to mark Ireland’s 50th anniversary of joining the European Union

The Minister of State for European Affairs, Peter Burke T.D., today congratulated 34 local community groups, educational institutes, youth organisations, local media organisations  and NGOs who have been awarded funding under the Department of Foreign Affairs 2023 Communicating Europe Initiative scheme.

Minister Burke also announced that €150,000 is being made available to Local Authorities across Ireland for projects which should take place on around Europe day (9 May 2023) or Europe Week (8-12 May 2023). The scheme for ‘Local Authority EU50 led Events’ is now open with a closing deadline of 8th March next. Details are available here EU50 | Ireland - this is Ireland.

2023 marks 50 years since Ireland joined the European Communities, now the European Union. The Government’s EU50 programme, which began in January 2022 and which continues to May this year is marking this historic milestone. Both the Communicating Europe scheme 2023 and local authority funding will play an important role in bringing EU50 to communities across the country.

Announcing the Communicating Europe funding allocations for community and voluntary organisations for 2023, the Minister of State congratulated the 34 successful projects, all of which will make an extremely valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on Ireland’s place in, and the future role of, the European Union.

The Minister said:

 “As Minister for European Affairs, I am very happy that we were able to almost double the funding awarded this year under the Communicating Europe Initiative, to over €172,000. It is particularly fitting that many of this year’s projects are in line with Government’s EU50 programme to mark 50 years of our EU membership.

The type of successful projects this year is really varied – various school events, a third level art/creative writing competition, community projects and podcasts. There will also be an important nationwide project looking at the positive role of the EU in advancing women’s rights over the past 50 years.

I look forward to engaging directly with many of the projects and seeing them come to fruition over the coming months.

I am also very happy to announce that a further €150,000 will be available to Local Authorities for events and projects to take place around Europe week this May.”

ENDS

Press Office

09 February 2023

 

Note to Editors:

Details and application form for the Local Authority led EU50 events scheme are here - EU50 | Ireland - this is Ireland.

The list of the 34 community and voluntary organisation recipients under the Communicating Europe Initiative 2023 is below:

Communicating Europe Initiative 2023

Organisation

Project name

Project type

Amount awarded

Ballinderreen Community Centre

Fifty Years of EU Membership Through Stories and Sound

Educational

€3,000

Castlecomer Discovery Park

European Climate & Youth Action

Series of secondary school visits and a demonstration day

€5,000

Centre for European Studies, UL

EUROPA2073: Ireland EU50 Art/Creative Writing Competition for Third Level Students

Art/Creative writing competition

€5,500

Citywise Education

Bringing Jobstown into the EU

Podcast series

€4,000

CLC Vestry

Hope Project

In person event

€4,000

Cranmore Community Co-operative Society Ltd

social enterprise

In person and educational

€2,000

DCU Brexit Institute

DECADES: An Interactive History of Ireland in the EU

Podcast, Live Event, Online Educational Tool

€5,000

Dublin South City Partnership

What we bring to the party' - a strenghts-based approach to civic engagement

Series of events, talks, discussions and workshops

€3,000

Dundalk IT Dept of Creative Arts, Media and Music

Echoes of Erasmus

Educational and Performance Event

€6,000

Eamon Maher TU Dublin

‘France, Ireland’s nearest neighbour in Europe’: Celebrating a unique Friendship on the European Stage. One-day seminar in Iveagh House.

One-day seminar

€4,000

EAPN Ireland

Conference on Ireland’s contribution to the EU role in tackling poverty over 50 years

Conference

€6,000

eTownz

Understanding Ireland position in the EU through data stories

Media and Educational

€6,000

European Youth Parliament

EYP Ireland Debate Conferences

Series of Debate Conferences

€10,000

Gaelscoil na gCeithre Maol

Ár n-áit san Eoraip - Ansin, Anois & Amach anseo

Event with possibility of media project/podcast

€4,000

Graduate.ie

Youth engagement

Educational

€8,000

Inniscarra Twinning Association

“DYNAMIQUE! How the EU and Twinning Have Transformed Inniscarra”.

Events

€4,000

IRD Duhallow

EU 50: What a diverse and inclusive Ireland means to the youth of 2023.  

Workshop events

€3,000

Irish Centre for European Law

Review of the CJEU in 2022

Event

€6,000

Irish Heritage Trust

Expanding Global Citizenship Education, the Dublin Declaration, and EU50

Two events and Europe Day video

€5,000

Junior Achievement Meeting

Europe4U 2023

Educational

€7,500

Laois Partnership

’50 years of The European Union in County Laois’

Educational with video production

€6,000

Louth Co Co - Library services

EU Enviromental Legislation - specifically the EU Water Framework Directive(2000/60/EC)

Educational

€4,000

Love and Care for People

EU and You

Workshops

€3,000

MTU Cork School of Music

‘Cultural Capital Cork’

Concert of music and spoken word

€7,500

Munster Technological University

EU50ChatPal

Educational, Online and through Smart Phone

€8,000

National Women's Council

Impact EU – Women’s Equality over 50 years

Event

€10,000

North Dublin Muslim National School

Caoga Bliain ag Fás - My EU50 Years ‘a Growing!’,

Website and booklet

€5,000

Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney

The European Union & the Irish Peace Process- A Schools Conference

Educational conference

€5,000

Prevention and Early Intervention Network

How Europe Supports the Well-Being of Children and Families in Ireland

Events

€5,000

Scoil Chomáin Naofa

The Eu’s Influence on agricultural development in our locality.

Educational

€2,700

Sligo FRC

International Women's Day Embrace Equity with EU50 years events

Event

€1,000

St Columbas College, Stranorlar

Mock Euroscola

Educational events

€1,000

The European Network

Enhanced Ireland EU 50

Professional articles

€4,000

Twilight

European information Access Awareness Development

video podcast, educational

€4,000

Irish Times Debate

Theme of final debate will be EU50 focused

3rd level debate competition

€5,000

 

 

 

€172,200