The successful projects are:
Irish Pig Sector Stakeholders Moving Together Towards Raising Pigs with Intact Tails was awarded €650,000 and the project will be led by Teagasc. This project will be trialling measures to address tail biting in pigs with the aim of rearing pigs with intact tails on Irish farms.
Enhancing Suckler Cow Health, Welfare and Resilience in a High Nature Value Landscape will aim to enhance suckler cow health in High Value Nature areas such as the Burren. This project was awarded €254,004 and will be delivered by HNVS Ltd.
The Sound Cow Innovation Programme (SCIP) will take a multi-disciplinary approach to controlling lameness on farms and will be led by the Hoof Health Check Technical Working Group of Animal Health Ireland (AHI). This project received €649,598.
Making Farms Work for Women is a project led by Claire Brennan, Agricultural Advisor. The project was awarded €650,000 and will address the needs of women on Irish farms in relation to working with machinery and livestock.
Following the announcement, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Mr Charlie McConalogue, said:
“The addition of these four new EIP projects brings the total we have launched under this CAP Strategic Plan thus far to six with our two flagship EIP projects ‘Farming for Water’ and the ‘Breeding Waders’ progressing positively since their launch earlier this year.”
Minister of State, Senator Pippa Hackett said that DAFM, “will continue to support and encourage as wide a range of EIP projects as possible, in order to build on the achievements to date and to bring new and innovative ideas into practice on farms. In that regard, I have recently launched a Call for EIP projects on Generational Renewal and Digital Technologies, and I would encourage Operational Groups to submit Expressions of Interest and be innovative in their approach. I also intend to launch a new call on environmental sustainability in the coming weeks, further details of which will follow soon.”
Further information on the European Innovation Partnership initiative and the background documents for these and other EIP calls can be accessed on the department website at https://www.gov.ie/en/service/18a855-european-innovation-partnership-scheme/
For assistance and resources on developing European Innovation Partnership applications, visit our EIP-Agri Resources page here.