AgTechUCD Innovation Centre

We recently shot a video about Agri Data Analytics Bovine Breathalyser product. Check out the video below and make sure you vist Agri Data Analytics at stand 21 in the @Entirl Innovation Arena next week at @NPAIE Ploughing Championships. bit.ly/agridataanalyt…

We have extended the #Agccelerator Application Deadline to September 23rd. This gives you a whole month to polish your application to give you the best chance of getting a place on the programme. Please reachout if you have any queries! @NovaUCD @ucdagfood @ucdlyonsfarm

UCD appoints manager to drive new agri innovation programme @AgTechUCD has announced the appointment of Edel Mitchell as senior manager of the new Food and Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme in UCD. www3.farmersjournal.ie/ucd-appoints-m… via @farmersjournal

Make sure you check out the below episode of @Galwaybayfmnews Country Life Show with Keith Fahy, who discusses our new FAST-IP programme with the programmes Director, Professor Nicholas Holden. Listen here: podbean.com/ep/pb-y5b77-15… Spaces are filling up fast so apply now!

Don't miss our FAST-IP information webinar tonight at 7.30pm - 8.15pm. The webinar will explain what the FAST-IP programme is all about, who the programme is for, the entry requirements, and details about the tax free stipend of €38,000. Register here: bit.ly/fast-ip-2

🚜🤝 FAST-IP: UCD and Teagasc in €7 million partnership to deliver new food and agri entrepreneurship programme A new Government funded €7 million food and agriculture entrepreneurship training programme is to be delivered by University College Dublin in partnership with Teagasc. Based at the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm, the Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme (FAST-IP) is designed to “increase innovation knowledge” in the food and agriculture sector and kick start creation of more high potential start-ups and jobs in the sector. The programme forms part of Enterprise Ireland’s Innovators’ Initiative which is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. “Ireland’s Sustainable Food and AgTech industry is already a success and nationally important, contributing an estimated €8 billion to the economy and employing over 160,000 people,” said Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney TD. “This programme will further enhance innovation in the sector by providing participants with the necessary skills to evaluate, select and validate ideas for new products and services. Over the lifespan of the programme, FAST-IP is expected to contribute to the creation of new Sustainable Food and AgTech SMEs and High Potential Start-Ups, with the potential to create hundreds of new jobs in the process.” FAST-IP will have five intakes of 15 participants, beginning in September 2024 and will run until the end of 2029. The 12-month in-person programme, aimed at mid-career professionals, is accredited by UCD at Level 9 on the National Qualifications Framework. Its focus will be on developing market validated solutions to unmet needs in the areas of agricultural technology and food sustainability sectors. Alongside this, participants will spend 8-10 weeks immersed in agricultural environments including farms and food processing companies throughout the year long programme. Participants who complete the programme will be awarded a Graduate Diploma in Agricultural Innovation and Entrepreneurship. “The key objective of FAST-IP is the creation of a pipeline of commercialisation fund applications and an increase in the number of HPSUs in the sustainable food systems and AgTech sectors,” said Gary Ryan, Director, AgTechUCD Innovation Centre. “The exciting and dynamic programme will deliver a unique perspective to the participants in each cohort that will position them to carry out real-world needs identification and follow that through with innovative, realistic, and commercial solutions.” He added, “Placing high calibre, passionate, mid-career professionals in agricultural immersive environments will facilitate the development of high quality, commercially viable business ideas. These ideas will have the potential to develop into solutions that will make the industry more sustainable and profitable. “From the outset programme participants will be encouraged to focus on innovations that have a positive impact on climate change and the environment. Sustainability around innovative solutions will be to the fore in FAST-IP as it has to be in everything facing the wider ag sector.” Professor Nick Holden, Professor of Biosystems Engineering in the UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering and a co-founder of Proveye, a UCD spin-out company, is the Academic Director of the Graduate Diploma Programme. FAST-IP will provide participants with a tax-free €38,000 stipend over the 12-month duration of the programme. 🔗 ucd.ie/newsandopinion…

Make sure you check our Director, Gary Ryan, and our recent Agccelerator Programme winners, @pit_seal and @moonsyst, discuss irish agtech and why accelerator programmes, like our #agccelerator, are important to help agtech companies grow and scale. shows.acast.com/5f6db0ab2dc234…

A new initiative, Nova Vision, which aims to further cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset among UCD undergrad and postgrad students and to inspire them to address future challenges through innovation has been announced by @NovaUCD. ucd.ie/innovation/new…

Following a final pitching event, held at @AgTechUCD Innovation Centre in Co. Kildare, @moonsyst was named the @AIBIreland and @TheYieldLab AgTech Start-up 2024 and received a €10k prize.

...and @pit_seal was named the FBD AgTech One to Watch 2024 and received a €10k prize. @fbd_ie

Dublin founder of @TrojanTrack2 , Stephen O'Dwyer, will be pitching on Wednesday in the #Agccelerator Investor Pitch Event. @TrojanTrack2 provides quick and accurate analysis of a horse's movement, using just a smartphone and a tripod. @NovaUCD

Limerick startup @pit_seal , founded by @MarionCantillon will be pitching at the #Agccelerator Investor Panel next week. Pitseal offers a game-changing, biofilm spray, that forms an airtight, water-repellent seal over silage pits, eliminating plastic sheeting and weights.

Up next is Dr Declan Colbert of Westmeath Startup, PolyBo. The startup are developing a unique bolus platform resulting in tailorable release of trace elements and vitamins for ruminents. PolyBo are pitching at our #Agccelerator Investor Pitch next week. @NovaUCD

We're looking forward to hearing Founder of @BurpeezIrl, @p_connellan, pitch at the end of the month for our 3rd AgTechUCD #Agccelerator Investor Pitch. Burpeez are developing an edible netwrap for silage bales. @NovaUCD

Our #Agccelerator Programme #InvestorPitch takes place at the end of the month. Over the next two weeks we will be profiling each of the 8 #startup companies participating in this years programme. First up we have Offaly startup, Agri Data Analytics Ireland. @NovaUCD

Congratulations to all our client companies at NovaUCD, NexusUCD, @AgTechUCD Innovation Centre, and across UCD, for their many achievements and successes during 2023.

If you've been dying to know what our Private Offices, Co-working Space, Meeting Rooms and Events Space look like, make sure you check out the our latest AgTechUCD Newsletter. bit.ly/3TahVq3

Thrilled to announce @pit_seal’s Gold win at #nationalstartupawards2023 for Sustainability! 🏆 Shoutout to fellow friends from @ReDEI -Watch, @WexburySpirits, @usepromotion, and kudos to my @AgTechUCD colleague Alan from Agridata for their well-deserved recognition! 🌟

Make sure you tune into RTE 1 tonight to see MyGug on the new 'Heated' environmental show. #agccelerator #startup #agtech #agrifood #sustainability

How edible plant-based baling wrap could cut plastic use, reduce emissions and save time for farmers via @Independent_ie independent.ie/farming/beef/h… @BurpeezIrl @AgTechUCD @ucdlyonsfarm