Free innovation workshops for SMEs

Co-Innovate is a new programme supported by the European Union’s INTERREG programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. It is aimed at small and medium sized businesses interested in cross-border research and innovation in Northern Ireland, the Border Region of Ireland and Western Scotland.

What does Co-Innovate offer?
The programme of support will stretch across five key strands of activities, including:

• innovation workshops
• business health check
• detailed innovation audit
• one-to-one mentoring

Each company’s needs around innovation development will differ, so every company’s journey through the programme will be unique. Co-Innovate will give you the tools and support to help you innovate, differentiate and compete successfully.

Free innovation workshops
Co-Innovate programme gets under way with a series of free innovation workshops. These half-day events will take place in:

• Downpatrick – 5 July 2017
• Sligo – 19 July 2017
• Donegal – 25 July 2017
• Dungannon – 23 August 2017
• Monaghan – 24 August 2017
• Cookstown – 30 August 2017
• Leitrim – 7 September 2017
• Cavan – 12 September 2017
• Newry – 13 September 2017
• Dundalk – 14 September 2017
• Larne – 15 September 2017
• Coleraine – 19 September 2017
• Armagh – 21 September 2017
• Omagh – 22 September 2017
• Belfast – 26 September 2017

At these events, businesses will have the chance to learn about the benefits of innovation, identify opportunities for growth and create a vision to make it happen.