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Featured sustainability supports
In today’s world, consumers increasingly want to buy from businesses committed to sustainability. But making the shift can feel overwhelming – that’s where we come in.
Here are some of the most popular supports to help you take the first step to becoming more sustainable, reduce your environmental impact and save money.
Energy Efficiency Grant
Introduce energy-saving measures for your small business
Businesses are encouraged to invest in sustainable products and services to reduce their carbon footprint and play their part in a greener future. With this support, you can introduce new measures to become a more energy-efficient business.
Climate Action Supports
Online resources for a more sustainable business
A range of online resources, guides, case studies and practical tools, including access to a carbon calculator to determine your business carbon footprint and benchmark your carbon emissions nationally and internationally. These tools will help tourism and hospitality businesses meet their sustainability goals and introduce energy efficient cost-saving measures.
Skillnet Climate Ready Academy
Helping businesses become more sustainable
Skillnet Climate Ready Academy provides businesses with specialised skills training on Climate Action, Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Sustainability Communication
Resources to help you communicate your food or drink business sustainability initiatives
These supports help food and drink marketing and commercial teams to communicate their sustainability activities to customers.
SME Energy Programme
Free training courses to improve energy efficiency
This programme helps businesses learn how to improve their energy management.
Green for Business
Start your sustainability journey
This is an entry-level sustainability grant. It helps you to introduce ways to be more sustainable in your day-to-day operations. It aims to improve your operational performance through better efficiency so you can lower your costs and be more competitive.
Climate Action Voucher
Become more sustainable and eco-friendly
Through training and advisory services, your business will find areas for improvement, and develop a plan to reduce emissions and become more resource efficient.
GreenStart
Start your sustainability journey
This is an entry-level sustainability grant. It helps you to introduce ways to be more sustainable in your day-to-day operations. It aims to improve your operational performance through better efficiency so you can lower your costs and be more competitive.
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IDA Ireland Green Programme
Support to implement sustainable practices for multinational organisations
IDA Ireland offers a program specifically for their existing clients to explore and implement sustainable practices.
Capital investment for decarbonisation processes
Invest in carbon-reducing technologies
This grant is designed to help businesses pay for the changes needed to reduce their carbon emissions, making their operations more environmentally friendly. Investing in new tools, research, ideas, and green technology can help your company reach its goal of zero carbon emissions faster.
With the GreenPlus sustainability grant, you can make your business a greener one by developing an environmental policy that is in line with international standards. This helps businesses to play their part in creating a sustainable future.
Woodland Improvement Scheme
Offers financial support to forest owners for sustainable forest management
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland runs the Woodland Improvement Scheme (WIS) to provide financial support to forest owners for sustainable forest management practices. This helps meet the goals of both producing wood products and conserving the environment.
Organic Farming Scheme
Provides financial support to farmers to encourage production of organic foods
A program that financially supports farmers who are converting to or continuing organic farming practices. The scheme's goals are to encourage organic food production, reduce the environmental impact of farming and improve animal welfare.
Climate Toolkit 4 Business
This Toolkit provides you with practical ways to start taking action to tackling carbon emissions and become more sustainable.
The Department of Enterprise's Climate Toolkit for Business is an Irish government initiative designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) on their journey to becoming more sustainable and reducing their carbon footprint.
Capital Funding Support
Develop a plan to increase international trade
This fund helps to boost digital capabilities, invest in advanced technologies and adopt automation, helping to increase productivity and competitiveness.
SEAI Energy Academy
Learn how to save energy, reduce costs, and lower your carbon footprint
The SEAI Energy Academy is an online learning platform established by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). It offers courses and resources to teach businesses about energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable energy practices.
Energy Contracting Support Scheme
Fund energy-saving, decarbonisation projects
This scheme encourages businesses to invest in energy efficiency projects through Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) for guaranteed results at a lower cost.
An Energy Performance Contract (EPC) means a contractor upgrades your place of business to save energy and promises you savings. You pay them back with the savings over time. If you save less than promised, the contractor pays the difference, ensuring you benefit.
EXEED Grant Scheme
Financial and technical support to become energy-efficient
With this grant, businesses can introduce energy-efficient technology, design, or processes into their buildings and facilities to be more sustainable and competitive
Featured digitalisation supports
Go digital to make your business more efficient and flexible so you can respond quickly to opportunities and challenges.
Here are some of the most popular supports to help you on your digital transformation journey.
Trading Online Voucher Scheme
Develop an online presence for your small business
A strong online presence is essential for businesses to succeed in today's digital age. With this support, you can develop your e-commerce capabilities like website creation, online marketing, or IT consultancy to improve your online presence.
Digital Transition Fund
Increase your business’ productivity and efficiency with digital technology
This support provides funding to invest in new digital tools, services and technology that will make your business more efficient and resilient
Think Digital
Create digital marketing strategies with expert guidance
This program helps food and drink businesses use digital tools, improve their online presence, and access tailored digital training for the food and drink industry.
Disruptive Technologies Partnering Portal
Collaboration between companies working with disruptive and sustainable technologies
Disruptive, Digital and Sustainable Technologies are those that have the capacity to “disrupt” or alter markets and the way businesses operate. They often involve new products and services and the emergence of new business models. IDA Ireland's Disruptive Technologies Partnering Portal (DTTP) is an online platform designed to connect companies to foster collaboration and partnerships between companies working with disruptive and sustainable technologies.
Digital transformation for tourism businesses
Digital transformation for visitor experience businesses
In today's digital world, a strong online presence and the effective use of digital technologies are crucial for long-term success in the tourism industry. Our programme helps you adopt and optimise digital technologies, enhancing your skills to give your business a competitive edge.
Access Advice : Digital Discovery
Develop a digital plan and introduce new technologies
To be competitive in today’s market, businesses need to understand what digital technology can offer. This grant incentivises and supports companies to introduce new digital technologies and solutions into their operations. Leading to greater efficiency, improved customer experiences, better decision-making, and an enhanced ability to bring better and more diverse products to market
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Lean and Digitalisation Business Offer
Lean and digital transformation support for multinational companies in Ireland
IDA Ireland's Lean and Digitalisation Business Offer is a program designed to support their existing client companies in two key areas Lean and Digitalisation.
Online Trading Scheme
Develop an online presence for your small business
For businesses in the Gaeltacht to succeed in today's digital age, a strong online presence is essential. With this support, you can develop your e-commerce capabilities like website creation, online marketing, or IT consultancy to improve your online presence.
Trading Online Voucher Scheme
Develop an online presence for your small business
A strong online presence is essential for businesses to succeed in today's digital age. With this support, you can develop your e-commerce capabilities like website creation, online marketing, or IT consultancy to improve your online presence.
Disruptive Technologies Partnering Portal
Collaboration between companies working with disruptive and sustainable technologies
Disruptive, Digital and Sustainable Technologies are those that have the capacity to “disrupt” or alter markets and the way businesses operate. They often involve new products and services and the emergence of new business models. IDA Ireland's Disruptive Technologies Partnering Portal (DTTP) is an online platform designed to connect companies to foster collaboration and partnerships between companies working with disruptive and sustainable technologies.
Think Digital
Create digital marketing strategies with expert guidance
This program helps food and drink businesses use digital tools, improve their online presence, and access tailored digital training for the food and drink industry.
Digital transformation for tourism businesses
Digital transformation for visitor experience businesses
In today's digital world, a strong online presence and the effective use of digital technologies are crucial for long-term success in the tourism industry. Our programme helps you adopt and optimise digital technologies, enhancing your skills to give your business a competitive edge.
IDA Ireland Online Self-Assessment Diagnostics
Assess your digitalisation and innovation levels
IDA Ireland offers online self-assessment diagnostics tools for client companies. These free, 20-minute assessments help businesses evaluate their current and future digitalisation and innovation maturity level.
Digital Transition Fund
Increase your business’ productivity and efficiency with digital technology
This support provides funding to invest in new digital tools, services and technology that will make your business more efficient and resilient
Grow Digital Portal
A Digital Toolkit for All Businesses
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's Grow Digital portal is a a digital toolkit for all businesses, to help them to embrace the opportunities that digital technologies and tools can offer.
Access Advice : Digital Discovery
Develop a digital plan and introduce new technologies
To be competitive in today’s market, businesses need to understand what digital technology can offer. This grant incentivises and supports companies to introduce new digital technologies and solutions into their operations. Leading to greater efficiency, improved customer experiences, better decision-making, and an enhanced ability to bring better and more diverse products to market
Featured innovation supports
Embracing innovation helps your business to grow and adapt to changing customer needs.
Here are some of the most popular supports to help you create a workplace that’s open to new ideas and ways to improve, to set you apart from the competition.
Research, Development & Innovation Fund
Increase sales and employment with research and development
This fund provides financial support to invest in research, development and innovation. The aim is to develop new products, services, and processes to make the business more competitive.
Innovation Boost
Boost innovation and growth with the help of an academic expert
Enterprise Ireland's Innovation Partnership Programme (IPP) connects businesses with research institutes (universities, institutes of technology) to collaborate on research projects. Businesses can take advantage of professional research capabilities to drive innovation in their products, processes or services.
Innovation Vouchers
Discover new solutions to business challenges
Innovation is essential to keep your business competitive. Innovation vouchers help small businesses collaborate with higher education institutes and public research bodies to solve technical challenges and explore new opportunities.
Innovation Capability
Bring new food and drink ideas to life
This programme teaches food and drink businesses to innovate for growth by incorporating innovation into all aspects of the business.
Innovate Programme
Assistance and guidance to improve innovation within your MNC
IDA Ireland’s Innovate Programme helps companies improve their innovation by giving them a roadmap and assigning an advisor to guide them. This advisor helps implement best practices and utilise tools for generating creative ideas and validating them. Ultimately, the program aims to make these companies more innovative and successful.
Skillnet Innovation Exchange
Join an ecosystem of innovative companies to fast-track business solutions
Skillnet Innovation Exchange is a skills marketplace that connects large businesses facing innovation challenges to ambitious Irish SMEs with the talent that can fast-track solutions.
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Knowledge Transfer Ireland
Access knowledge and research to bring new products or services to market
Knowledge Transfer Ireland brings business knowledge and research expertise together, and funds collaborative research projects, workshops and events to promote collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Horizon Europe Supports
Join the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme
Horizon Europe provides Irish businesses with funding and expertise to develop and launch innovative products and services that address global challenges.
Innovation Voucher Initiative
Discover new solutions to business challenges
Innovation is essential to keep your business competitive. Innovation vouchers help small businesses collaborate with higher education institutes and public research bodies to solve technical challenges and explore opportunities.
Horizon Europe
Join the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme
Horizon Europe provides Irish businesses with funding and expertise to develop and launch innovative products and services that address global challenges.
Innovation Voucher
Develop new solutions to business challenges
With Innovation Vouchers, your business can collaborate with higher education institutes and public research bodies. The aim of this innovation grant is to explore opportunities or solve technical problems to help improve your business.
BI:TES - Concept Testing
Ensure your food or drink products appeal to customers and sell them more effectively
This tool tests and validates your food or drink ideas, provided in partnership with Bord Bia and an independent research agency, both in Ireland and internationally.
Business Explorer- Explore
Financial support to try out new business ideas and explore innovations
This programme helps businesses try out new ideas or projects by providing financial support to cover some of the costs of planning and testing.
Feasibility Study Grants
Explore if your business idea will work
This support can help to build a solid foundation for your new venture, increasing your chances of success in a competitive market.
Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund
Overcome business challenges and improve your operations
This fund is for investment in the development of technology that could potentially disrupt and change the way businesses operate, based on existing challenges.
Business Explorer - Plus
Funding and support to take your new idea to the next stage
Support to work with an academic or industry specialist to develop a plan to integrate a new solution or new idea into your business.
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