Entrants will take part in an eight-module collection of studying periods and mentoring workshops in Boora, Co. Offaly
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Pictured: Mairead McGuiness, former MEP and European Commissioner with Tom Donnellan and Sharon Doyle, Bord na Móna, and Speed up Inexperienced Develop 2025 individuals
Bord na Móna has named the 9 companies chosen for its 2025 Speed up Inexperienced GROW programme, supporting Eire’s rising leaders in sustainability and local weather motion. The accelerator, launched in 2022 and delivered together with Resolve Companions, helps early-stage enterprises, SMEs, and start-ups driving transformative options for a greener future.
The initiative is a key aspect of Bord na Móna’s €5 million funding in fostering the expansion of Eire’s rising Inexperienced innovation community from 2022 to 2025.
The 9 firms chosen are The Planted Manner, Novelplast, Round Meals Co, BioSense, Easydry, JTM Power, Watt Footprint, Pulse Market and Plaswire.
As a part of the programme, the businesses will take part in an intensive eight-module collection of immersive studying periods and mentoring workshops on the Speed up Inexperienced hub in Boora, Co. Offaly. Members will interact with a variety of business specialists, together with representatives from enterprise and vitality businesses, Irish corporates, analysis networks, and traders, whereas additionally benefiting from direct entry to senior leaders inside Bord na Móna. Tey may even achieve helpful insights into Bord na Móna’s business experience and its profitable transformation from a conventional peat enterprise to a frontrunner in local weather options and renewable vitality.
The programme will culminate at a pitching contest at Speed up Inexperienced Convention on 15 Could in entrance of an viewers viewers of Bord na Móna personnel and key stakeholders, business specialists and traders.
This cohort brings the variety of Irish companies who’ve efficiently accomplished the programme since its launch in 2022 to 60 firms, with most alumni persevering with to develop their providing of inexperienced services or products. Many alumni companies have additionally acquired prestigious business awards, recognising their continued progress, progressive impression, and success.
Tom Donnellan, chief government, Bord na Móna, stated: “The rollout of this programme is a part of Bord na Móna’s €5 million dedication to help the expansion of Eire’s rising inexperienced innovator community between 2022 and 2025. We’re enjoying our half in Decarbonisation and driving an environmentally sustainable financial system.”
Mairead McGuinness, former European Commissioner for Monetary Stability, Monetary Providers and the Capital Markets Union, added: “We can’t ignore the threats of local weather change and environmental degradation which is why the Speed up Inexperienced Develop programme is so necessary to help companies that may and can present options. All companies – massive and small – face sustainability challenges. Those that have recognized the challenges and are working to handle them have a future, these that don’t won’t survive within the medium to long run.”
Speed up Inexperienced is spearheaded by Bord na Móna and delivered together with Resolve Companions. This programme is supported with partial funding by the Bord na Móna led European Fee funded LIFE Built-in Venture ‘Peatlands and Individuals’ (Erinn Innovation), an initiative that goals to help the realisation of a carbon-neutral, climate-resistant and environmentally sustainable nation.
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