Single portal to assist SMEs access >€100billion EU Funding

  The EUROPA – Finance for EU businesses: banks & venture capital – Your Europe site is intended to help businesses to apply for finance supported by the European Union. To access EU finance, click on your country to locate banks or venture capital funds that provide finance supported by the EU. ECOS Environmental Consultants Limited

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EU Industrial Emissions Directive

The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government invites comments on the transposition of the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU). The Directive revises and merges seven separate existing Directives related to industrial emissions into a single Directive and aims to simplify existing legislation related to industrial emissions.  The seven existing Directives are the: 3 Titanium...

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Europe’s Water: Efficient Use is Essential

Clean water is a vital natural resource which is coming under increasing pressure from over-exploitation and pollution. A sustainable management of Europe’s water resources demands a wider policy perspective, addressing all major users as well as water’s interactions with other resources. The European Union’sWater Framework Directive, Nitrates Directive and Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, provide...

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Environmental Funding for SMEs

SMEs should be aware of funding schemes that encourage Irish organisations to research and bring to market more environmentally sustainable technologies and processes. FP7 is the European Commissions 7th Framework Programme for research. It runs from 2007 – 2013 and has funds of over €50 billion allocated for research activities in this period. The main...

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