With money scarce on the ground at home, many see involvement in European projects as the way forward. In 2007 the European Union launched €975 billion in funding programmes for the 2007 – 2013 period. That’s 975 billion good reasons for getting involved in European projects. But is EU funding viable when you’re a private Irish SME?

RASLRES is a unique project (in the NPP area) which aims to increase the level of deployment of renewable energy technologies in rural economies, helping faciliatate the creation of local fuel markets.

RASLRES is one of several programmes funded by the Northern Periphery Programme. The NPP is one of thirteen Interreg IIIB programmes set up to encourage and support transnational cooperation between NPP programme areas in Europe.