Our Story
NuaFund helps clients with funding for their research and innovation projects and ideas. Our team has grown steadily and gained a reputation for excellence and professionalism. Based in rural Cork, Ireland, we offer personalised and tailored services to our clients.
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Our knowledge and experience will guide you to your next funding milestone.
NuaFund, formerly known as Eur Digital Village was founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Gavin. The company has evolved into a distinguished consultancy specializing in facilitating organizations and companies to leverage EU funding opportunities. With a remarkable career spanning 19 years within various EU institutions across Brussels and The Hague, Elizabeth's aim is to bring EU funding to projects contributing to a more sustainable future whilst creating positive social outcomes.
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Transforming Ideas into Reality! Our consultancy is your partner in securing funding for innovative solutions to today's challenges. Join us to create lasting impact and fund a better future together!
In a world driven by the urgency of change, NuaFund emerges as a trailblazing force, pioneering innovation and sustainability at the nexus of Circular Economy, and the Bioeconomy (covering Agriculture, Marine and Forestry sectors). At NuaFund, we're not just consultants; we're champions of change for social good and the relentless pursuit of a better tomorrow.
Expertise that Unlocks Doors - Behind every EU funding success story lies a depth of expertise, strategy, and insight. At NuaFund, we don't just guide you through the funding labyrinth – we take you from inception to victory.
Sustainability as our North Star - Sustainability isn't just a buzzword for us – it's the very fabric of our existence and is woven into our DNA. Every application we craft, every project we champion, carries the essence of a planet nurtured.
Success Stories
See how our customers are succeeding with Nuafund.
Circular Economy
Highly competitive funding
FPD Recycling received support from NuaFund throughout all stages of their successful application to the very competitive European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Programme in 2022. The EIC Accelerator Programme is a funding program under Horizon Europe that supports innovative, game-changing products, services, or business models that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe or globally. The programme provides grant funding of up to €2.5 million combined with an equity investment ranging up to €15 million in a blended finance offer. NuaFund provided services such as proposal writing and review, full proposal submission support, pitch preparation, and training to FPD Recycling throughout all stages of the application. In October 2022, it was announced that FPD Recycling, a clean-tech AI robotics company, was among only 7% of companies from over 1000 companies across Europe who were successfully awarded funding under this very competitive programme. More information on this solution here.
Encircle
Embrace Farm - Supporting Farm Families affected by Farm accidents in Ireland
In 2021, Embrace Farm – the farm accident support network, contacted us to seek support to prepare and submit an application for European Innovations Partnership (EIP) funding for their ‘Encircle’ project. Funding was awarded funding following our input and recommendations on how to craft the application. The aim of this Encircle project is to support farm families in the aftermath of a sudden accident or trauma on the family farm. The programme aims to address the gap in rural services by providing a structured single point of contact access to local professional and peer-to-peer supports to families and communities affected by sudden trauma on farms. During 2022 and 2023, we were delighted to be able to work with Embrace FARM by supporting them in the project management of the planning, launch and full implementation of this very worthwhile programme. Since the programme launched over 150 farm families throughout Ireland have been supported and assisted by the Encircle Project. More information here
Safe Habitus
Health and Safety of Farmers and Farm Workers
The Safe Habitus project involves a network of researchers, farm advisory services and educators, who are working with farmers and policy makers at national and EU levels to design, develop and test practical initiatives that support improvements in the safety, health and wellbeing of farmers and farm workers. The actions by a range of stakeholders involves empowering and supporting changes to unsafe practices and to adopting new, safer and healthier ways of working on Farms and feed into the EU transition to social sustainability in farming. Since this grant was awarded, we have taken on the role of Project Managers and work closely with the consortium on a daily basis. We are excited to be part of this change-making project supporting European farmers and policy makers – more information here.
RefreSCAR
Strategy for Agricultural Research
RefreSCAR a Horizon Europe funded project under Cluster 6 and it aims to support agricultural research. The Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) is a coordination and advisory body on European agricultural and bioeconomy research.
NuaFund helped the coordinator , throughout the proposal submission process and we are working as consortium members in supporting a work package on Project Management. Through this project, we are involved in 2 main actions:
- facilitating the administrative processes and meetings;
- financial reporting (in line with operational outcomes);
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Grass Ceiling
Gender Equality in Rural and Agricultural Innovation Systems
Grass Ceiling is funded through Cluster 6 of the Horizon Europe programme. It is a multi-actor project which aims to empower rural women and increase the number of socio-ecological innovations led by women in agriculture, the rural economy and rural communities. The GRASS Ceiling project is coordinated by South East Technological University, Ireland (SETU). The project involves women innovators on farms and rural areas who will participate in 9 socio-ecological women innovator living labs across 9 case study countries in Europe and the UK. The Living Labs are women-led with interactive innovation initiatives that will increase knowledge and provide tools to assist women innovators and policy and support organizations at Member State and EU levels. More information on this project here.
NuaFund helped the coordinators, SETU, throughout the proposal submission process and we are working as consortium members in supporting a work package on Project Management and involved in 3 main actions:
- monitoring technical reporting together with the Project coordinator
- facilitating the administrative processes and meetings;
- financial reporting;
Our team has worked on a number of reports to support the work of clients, often joining at the very early stages and therefore, supporting the conception of the report, the research that needs to be undertaken and how the report will look, what target readership is in view and how it can best be delivered.
Some examples of recent reports we have delivered include:
This report was published as part of the EPA Research Programme 2021-2030. The EPA Research Programme is a Government of Ireland initiative funded by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
The main aim of the report was to provide an outlook on the potential of a Circular Bioeconomy to support climate action, sustainable food, and bio-based systems over the 2030 to 2050 period.
This report prepared for the British Embassy, showcases the examples of existing research and innovation activity in the areas of Bioeconomy and Sustainable Agriculture in the UK and Ireland. It makes recommendations on sustainable agriculture research and innovation needs. It seeks to identify key opportunities for future collaboration across different areas of agriculture. It gives a snapshot of Ireland and UK projects in these areas and their potential contribution to the development of climate neutral farming of the future.
Our Team
NuaFund is lucky to have a great team in place with various experience and know-how to deliver a high level of service to our clients.
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