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Funding boost for Donegal
Design project
27.11.07
THE Donegal Design
Directorate has received a second round of funding
through the Skillnets programme.
The directorate is run through the Donegal County
Enterprise Board and aims to help local companies
highlight their products and services through good
design, packaging and promotion. |
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The funding from
Skillnets - the national skills and competitiveness
coordination body - will ensure the directorate
keeps going until 2009.
The Donegal Design Directorate was established after
a Donegal County Enterprise Board report in 2006
showed that local firms were missing out on
significant opportunities because of a lack of
design capabilities. |
"The directorate was
set the task of radically improving the competitive
strength of micro and small Donegal companies by
focusing on their design skills," said a
spokesperson.
"In less than a year the Donegal Design Directorate
has held the first design conference in the North
West attended by Ireland’s leading design experts,
signed up more than 70 local companies as members
and organised best-practice visits to Paris, Milan
and London."
Member companies have received subsidised training
in areas such as product design, packaging and
promotion as well as one-to-one mentoring and
participation in networking events and seminars.
“We are absolutely delighted”, said Michael Tunney,
CEO, Donegal County Enterprise Board. “To have
additional funding allocated by Skillnets is a huge
vote of confidence
in the work we are doing. It will enable the
Directorate to continue to develop a cluster of
highly competitive, design-led businesses in
Donegal," he said.
The directorate is now gearing up for their
Christmas networking event, to be held on Thursday,
December 13 at 7pm in Sienna, Letterkenny. To find
out more contact 074
9160735 or email
alynch@donegalenterprise.ie . |
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