Written answers
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Departmental Schemes
Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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822. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the Communicating Europe Initiative scheme; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30443/22]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Communicating Europe Initiative provides funding tovoluntary organisations, educational bodies and civil society groups and bodies for projects intended to deepen public awareness of the role that the European Union plays in our daily lives, and improve the quality and accessibility of public information on European issues, at local, regional or national level. Projects should communicate European issues, the role of the European Union and Ireland’s place in Europe.
For 2022, applications that focused on the 50thanniversary of Ireland’s decision to join the European Union, the Conference on the Future of Europe and the European Year of Youth 2022 were particularly encouraged.
This year, funding totalling €91,500, has been provided to 21 organisations, as set out below.
I look forward to engaging with as many of these organisations as possible over the course of this year as they continue to make an extremely valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on Ireland’s place in, and the future role of, the European Union.
Communicating Europe Initiative 2022
| Organisation | Project | Outreach | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audrey Galvin, UL | Reflecting on Ireland EU50 a multi platform media project | Regional and national | €2,500 |
| Claremorris Community Radio | Youth Talk Europe | Midlands-North-West of Ireland & online | €2,500 |
| Corran College | Caoga Bliain ag Fás | Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim | €3,000 |
| Crooked House Theatre Company | DeisÓige Workshop Programme | County Kildare and neighbouring regions | €5,000 |
| DCU Brexit Institute | AMPLIFY | All of the EU, with a particular focus on Ireland | €5,000 |
| Donegal County Council | Donegal’s AER Summer Academy 2022 ‘A Europe for the Next Generation’. | The event will take place in Donegal but will be open to delegates from across Europe | €5,000 |
| Dublin City FM | EU: How & When? | Greater Dublin Area & online | €3,000 |
| Duhill Community Council, Co Tipp | 50 Years of agriculture within the EU | South Tipperary | €1,000 |
| European Youth Parliament Ireland | EYPI Debate Conferences | Nationwide | €15,000 |
| IRD Duhallow | EU 50 – Communicating five decades of Irish Membership | North West Cork and South East Kerry and Mid Cork | €2,000 |
| Centre for European Studies, University ofLimerick | Symposium:The European Dimension in Irish Education | Nationwide | €10,000 |
| Junior Achievement Ireland | Europe4U 2022 | Nationwide | €10,000 |
| KCLR | EU and Us | Kilkenny/Carlow & online | €4,000 |
| National College of Art and Design | Care and Creativity: Parenthood and Arts in the EU Symposium | Dublin & nationwide | €2,000 |
| Our Lady's Secondary School | How the European Union works- A Schools Conference | Border Midlands and Western region | €4,000 |
| Radio Kerry | EU 50 – the EU and Me | Kerry & online | €5,000 |
| SLi Waterford | The Youth Voice | South East of Ireland | €4,000 |
| The European Network | Ireland 50 | Worldwide | €2,000 |
| Trinity Long Room Hub | ‘Visions of Europe in Irish Cultural Debate since 1940’ | Dublin & Europe focus | €2,000 |
| Irish Centre for European Law - TCD | Brexit Seminar Series | In person and online | €1,500 |
| Twilight | Our Past, Present and Prospects of the EU Years of Ireland. | Nationwide | €3,000 |
| Total | €91,500 |
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