📣 Week 8 is LIVE! 🎉

Best of luck to everyone taking on this week's challenge!

👉 Enter now at graduate.ie

🎥 Watch the GREENHEALTH results video, presented last week in Cabo de Palos, Murcia, during our final event!
Next week, we’ll share the highlights of the event. Stay tuned! 🌿🌊
Watch the video here!

Today, Shane Bradley and Tadhg Browne (@TadhgBrowne) presented to a delegation from the @NWAssembly on the role of the CoR, the impact of the Irish Delegation and the future of the MFF.

It was very useful to meet these elected representatives afterwards in parliament - they are well aware of the risks now facing all regional funding in the proposed new NRPP and I have urged them to hold special meetings with local county councils to try and prepare their own priorities for the weeks ahead

Join us in Sligo on 17 November for our conference -
PAST ADVANTAGES: Intangible Cultural Heritage and a Renewed Sustainability in Rural Ireland.
📍 The Model, Sligo
👉 Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/tDp6ax6Y5J

#PastAdvantages #Euinyregion #RuralDevelopment #Sligo #RuralIreland #NWRA

📢The IREO report on the @EU_CoR 173rd Plenary is now online.

Key discussions covered regional priorities, EU policy developments, and the role of regions and cities in shaping Europe's future. Read more: 🔗 ireo.eu/ireo-report-on…

#EUinMyRegion

🌿🏆 GREENHEALTH final event is next week! Check the new territorial policy achievements page for highlights & register via the pinned video on this page. Can’t wait to celebrate together! ✨🌱interregeurope.eu/greenhealth/ac…

📊 The newly released Regional Economic Profile of the Northern and Western Region of Ireland has just been published, it will support the development of the new Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy.

📖 Read more here nwra.ie/policy-and-res…

5/5 📢 Irish members contributed across #EURegionsWeek:
🔹 Opening session: Declan McDonnell & Gillian Coughlan
🔹 Entrepreneurship: @EmmaBlain
🔹 Energy resilience: Clare Colleran Molloy
🔹 Tourism & territorial attractiveness: Bridin Murphy

#EWRC

Brussels, we’re on! 👋

#EURegionsWeek kicks off today! The opening press conference is about to start at the 📍 Berlaymont.

Three days of ideas, inspiration and regional cooperation start now!

#EURegionsWeek2026

The @EU_CoR #EURegionsWeek began today in the European Parliament hemicycle, marking the start of a busy week of events alongside the Committee of the Regions' 173rd Plenary Session! 🇪🇺 🇮🇪

@NWAssembly, @SouthernAssembl, @EMRAssembly

#EURegionsweek #EUinMyRegion

2/5 Irish Delegation members of the @EU_CoR contributed to discussions on:
⚓ Industrial Maritime Strategy
🎣 Fisheries & coastal communities
💻 Chips Act 2.0
☁️🤖 Cloud & AI Development Act

Irish regional voices helping shape EU policy discussions in Galway. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

1/5 🇪🇺 Galway welcomed members of the @EU_CoR Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) this week for discussions on strengthening Europe's competitiveness, resilience and sustainable growth.

Irish delegation members contributed across a range of key policy debates. 🇮🇪

⏰ 1 WEEK TO GO!

The countdown to the #REGIOSTARS Awards is on 🏆

Discover this year’s finalists and vote for your favourite project making a difference across Europe’s regions.

⏳ Vote by 14 October!

👉ec.europa.eu/regional_polic…

📷 Week 4 is now LIVE!
Open to second-level students across Ireland — test your knowledge, take part and be in with a chance to become one of this year’s winners.
Best of luck to everyone taking part this week!
GRADUATE.IE

Know someone who would be a great fit for the European Parliament?

Applications for Schuman traineeships are now open until 31 October!

Find out everything you need to know here ➡️ link.europa.eu/qR66nJ

🇪🇺 One week left to apply! 🇮🇪

Applications for @DeptEnterprise #CohesionFunds 2026 sponsorship funding close 9 October 2026.

🔵 Up to €2,500 per organisation
🔵 For NGOs and local/community organisations
🔵 Supports events, community engagement, websites & promotional matewith Cohesion Policy 2021–2027

🔗 Apply: eufunds.ie/call-for-appli…
📧 cohesionpolicydialogue@per.gov.ie

#EUinmyRegion #Cohesion #EUFunding
@EMRAssembly @eurireland @EU_Commission @DeptEnterprise @NWAssembly @SouthernAssembl

🌿 Outdoor recreation supports wellbeing, community and connection with nature.

In this @IE_GREENHEALTH Good Practice Story we see how outdoor spaces can bring people together while supporting accessibility, mental health and wellbeing.
youtube.com/shorts/c6Jdbwd…

Today, Minister of State Marian Harkin TD represented the Irish Presidency at the @EU_CoR for an exchange on the Opinion "Skills for the Future".
Irish Delegation members Cllr Emma Blain & Cllr Jack Murray had the opportunity to meet Minister Harkin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

#SEDEC #EUinMyRegion

Great to see Cllr Jack Murray presenting his important opinion on the strengthening the rights of persons with disabilities.👏