Connected Hubs model goes international with expansion to France and Finland
Ireland’s Connected Hubs model is breaking new ground in Europe, as regions in Finland and France begin rolling out pilot projects based directly on the Irish system.
CODIL is a European project that aims to improve regional innovation policy instruments to better support the emerging distributed-team innovation model and its key component – highly skilled mobile knowledge workers. As the nature of innovation has fundamentally changed, policy instruments that support innovation must also change if they are to effectively support this changed post-Covid innovation ecosystem. Údarás na Gaeltachta are among the lead partners in the project.
Connected Hubs is a central driver of the Irish National Hub Network, a Government of Ireland initiative aimed at establishing and strategically expanding a network of interconnected hub facilities throughout the country. Connected Hubs is a Government of Ireland initiative under Our Rural Future. Connected Hubs is managed by the Western Development Commission in conjunction with the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht.
