How you can benefit

See the tables below to explore how different people, groups and areas benefit from European Structural and Investment Funding in Ireland.

Youthreach is an education, training and work experience programme aimed at early school leavers aged 15-20.

A programme for young people involved in anti-social or criminal behaviour that offers opportunities for education, employment and training as well as sport, art, music and other activities all of which contribute to improving employability.

Community based projects providing programmes to children who come before the courts to address anti-social attitudes and behaviour, and offending behaviour.

SICAP aims to raise skills and education levels through education, training, work experience and/or work opportunities.

A programme for young people involved in anti-social or criminal behaviour that offers opportunities for education, employment and training as well as sport, art, music and other activities all of which contribute to improving employability.

Community based projects providing programmes to children who come before the courts to address anti-social attitudes and behaviour, and offending behaviour.

Projects targeted at women who are currently detached from the labour market, but wish to take up employment.

This fund provides financial assistance for full-time students experiencing financial difficulties whilst attending higher education.

This fund allocates funding to further and higher education colleges for the provision of services and supports to full-time students with disabilities.

These projects and courses are aimed at helping people to gain literacy, language and numeracy skills.

This initiative addresses the educatiional needs of those with minimal or no educational qualification and school leavers.

Springboard+ offers a range of free courses at certificate, degree and masters level leading to qualifications in areas where there are employment opportunities in the economy. This includes courses that are aimed at addressing ICT skills gaps by converting talented graduates from non-computing/IT disciplines to meet identified ICT skills needs.

This Programme provides charities with food and other basic materials for distribution to those most in need in our society. You will find details of the application process on the website linked here.

Schemes supported by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund are made available on the Bord Iascaigh Mhara Website.

The Department of Agriculture provides a number of supports under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. These are all consolidated in one place on the linked section of the Department’s website.

The LEADER Programme is managed by Local Action Groups spread across the country. For more details on the LEADER Programme, see its page on this website .

Under the EMFF, local areas are empowered to produce local strategies for developing their coastal communities.

The Department of Agriculture provides a number of supports under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. These are all consolidated in one place on the linked section of the Department’s website.

The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres and Spokes Programmes are central to developing and strengthening a world ranking research, innovation and development reputation in Ireland and its regions.

Supporting entrepreneurship in the research community, through helping to bring good ideas to market.

Irish Business get a chance to work with and gain the expertise of Irish Research Institutes to help develop ideas and grow their business.

Funding research initiatives that support and develop the fishing and coastal communities in both regions.

The National Broadband Programme is a plan to deliver high speed broadband services (minimum speed of 30Mbps download and 6Mbps upload) to all businesses and households in Ireland.

Helps small business grow, increase the numbers employed and support innovation practise and investment in research and development in the micro-enterprise sector.

The scheme is targeted at low-income households at risk of energy poverty, delivering a range of energy efficiency measures.

This is a retrofitting scheme for Local Authority housing stock. The scheme will help Ireland meet its carbon emission commitments and energy reduction targets for 2020.

Making our cities and towns more attractive for living, working and recreation.