RT by @simoncoveney: 🚜✂️ New €4.8m AgTech research and business facility opens at UCD Lyons Farm

🗣️ Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney TD: “The remarkable facilities we are opening today will ensure that thousands of graduate and postgraduate students will be able to access cutting-edge research and technology."

A new €4.8 million facility that aims to boost education, entrepreneurship and innovation in the agritech sector has opened at UCD Lyons Farm.

Incorporating the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre and the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub, the complex aims to give students access to ‘cutting-edge’ technology and be a hub to support start-ups and SMEs.

Based at UCD Lyons Farm in Kildare, which contains 250 hectares of farmland used for research, teaching, and commercial purposes, construction of the new facility began last year, with funding provided by Enterprise Ireland, UCD and a philanthropic donation from veterinary pharma company Bimeda.

🔗 Full story:
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2023/october/26/new48magtechresearchandbusinessfacilityopensatucdlyonsfarm

The first and only on-farm workspace hub in Ireland, the focus of the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre is to promote and accelerate early-stage start-ups and SMEs with disruptive innovations in the agri, agtech, agrifood and veterinary sectors, as they build their business.

It will provide clients with preferred access to on-farm experimental facilities, allowing testing and trialling of products and services in the real-world environment at UCD Lyons Farm.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ucddublin/status/1717845434981384407#m

[2023-10-27 10:07 UTC]