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Screen Ireland aims to drive the expansion of the indigenous TV drama production sector and provide opportunities for Irish talent to develop both creatively and professionally.

The emphasis is on feature-length, creative documentaries in English and Irish language with high cinematic production values which are capable of reaching an international audience through theatrical and festival exposure and on new platforms.

Feature Film Development Loans enable Irish producers to commission screenplays with a view to developing feature films to production stage. 

This is a small low cost loan with minimal paperwork requirements.

Enterprise Ireland's Pre-Seed Start Fund is a grant program that provides early-stage start-up companies with up to €100,000 to help them develop their products or services and reach key milestones

Now in its fourth year, Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann and Animation Ireland, with the support of Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet & Eirmersive is investing €430,000 in funding that will support new innovative, high concept development and immersive storytelling projects within the Animation and Immersive Storytelling sector. 

This year’s fund aims to encourage experimentation and prototyping, supporting projects across a wide range of genres and formats. 

The fund continues Screen Ireland’s ambition to highlight Ireland as a centre of excellence in animation and investing in a diverse range of skills, talent, genres and formats, fuelled by artistry and storytelling. It is designed to allow the sector to explore new opportunities offered by emerging technologies, as well as support the development of IP and new, innovative ways of storytelling.

SCARP simplifies debt restructuring for viable small businesses with temporary issues. Initiated by directors, it bypasses courts with creditor approval, offering a faster and cheaper alternative to examinership to save jobs and maximize creditor value. 

First Stage Documentary Development Funding is for feature film documentary projects intended for festival and/or cinematic release and documentary series intended for international broadcast.

Businesses need to be able to adapt and keep going, even through challenging times when the world around them suddenly changes. With this grant for strategic planning, we can help you prepare for future business challenges by covering the cost of preparing a response plan. 

• This funding is for live-action or animated feature films (live-action or animated TV projects are not eligible) originating outside Ireland in which an Irish producer (ROI) is involved as a creative collaborator, not merely a service producer and provider of a minority of the finance needed.
• The film must be structured as an official co-production with third party funding from the leading territory in place and must employ key Irish talent.
• Priority will be given to projects that utilise Ireland as a film location, depict Ireland for Ireland, and where a number of key Irish HOD's and/or Irish cast are employed. 
• Reciprocity from funding agencies in other jurisdictions will be sought in appropriate circumstances.

Information for small businesses across various topic areas including labelling, nutrition claims, importing and exporting, food safety legislation and food contact materials

This service ensures that businesses have reliable access to expert information on food safety laws, helping them meet their compliance obligations. It is available to all food businesses and is staffed by food safety specialists who can provide advice

Skills to Advance provides flexible, accredited upskilling and reskilling opportunities to employees and employers around Ireland. All programmes are delivered locally through the 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs) nationwide and are available at little or no cost. Skills to Advance is an initiative of SOLAS, the state agency responsible for Further Education and Training (FET) in Ireland.

The Learning Zone is a digital platform that aims to help food and drink businesses improve their work processes and find new opportunities.

A 3 year strategic business development and people investment programme that supports you to build better employee engagement and performance and strengthen your Employer brand reputation. 

The HR & OD CoP is a collaborative platform bringing together HR and OD leaders to share knowledge, address challenges, and drive innovation. Through interactive roundtables and peer learning groups, we foster a dynamic community focused on exploring and overcoming HR and OD challenges, exchanging best practices, and uncovering emerging trends and solutions.

The Spotlight on Skills programme is a collaboration between Enterprise Ireland, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Irish Management Institute (IMI). The programme has been developed to help businesses create a company skills plan.The initiative is run online and will support your company to identify and address critical skills needs, to build capability and achieve strategic growth. As part of the process your company has a focused engagement with their local Regional Skills Manager to get a response from the Educational and Training Providers in your region to address your critical skills needs.

Work and Access is a set of supports for employers and employees that aim to remove or reduce barriers in the workplace for people with a disability.

A full annualised and dynamic calendar of online workshops courses and webinars help to build your employees’ industry knowledge, skills and capability of teams and help your business stay competitive and resilient. Courses also support businesses to identify and harness business development opportunities.