The Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan includes projects and initiatives across the three Mid-West counties of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary.
Stakeholder consultation sessions attracted over 60 attendees from across industry, public sector and higher education sectors from within the region. The sessions highlighted the high level of collaboration and ambition that exists within the region, with a strong sense of optimism prevalent despite some regional challenges. Five key strategic objectives were agreed, with discrete actions developed for each.
The five strategic objectives
1. Enable innovation to make the Mid-West a leading digital region.
This objective includes actions across themes such as advanced manufacturing, future mobility, film, sportstech and healthcare.
2. Make the Mid-West Ireland’s leading sustainability / low carbon region.
This objective includes actions across themes such as bioeconomy, renewable energy and sustainability in the built environment.
3. Enable Enterprise growth in regional towns and rural areas.
This objective includes actions such as the development of a network of high quality eHubs, development of food hubs, a skills heat mapping exercise, and digitalisation of the tourism sector.
4. Initiatives to support SME, Start-ups and Microbusiness.
This objective contains actions such as industry cluster development, promotion of apprenticeships and traineeships, management and financial training, efforts to develop/accelerate HPSUs.
5. Develop Social Enterprises and Job Creation Initiatives for areas of high unemployment.
This objective includes actions such as the growth of social enterprise to achieve sustainable progress towards employment equality. This objective also includes development of a connected jobs strategy to address long-term unemployment in blackspot areas, and the development of targeted approaches for individual.
Education, training and skills initiatives will be delivered to support each of the objectives, with an overall goal to continue building regional capacity by leveraging regional strengths and opportunities.
Chair
Chair of the Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan: Eamonn Murphy, Managing Director, Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE)
Contact
Programme Manager of the Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan: Vacant
Plan and progress reports
Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan and progress reports
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