Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Live Project

Project Leader: Jose Manuel San Emeterio

EU Programme: Dept of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI)

Project Budget:

Start Date: May, 2025

Finish Date: Apr, 2029

Project Website: https://data2sustain.ie/

The aim of the project is to:

Support start-ups, SMEs, other business and the public sector in their digital transformation journey, based on data and data analytics-driven innovation approaches.

Specific objectives are to:

Be a leading EDIH in the provision of digitalisation services in Circular Economy, Operations & Sustainability, based on data and data analytics driven innovation approaches helping create smarter, greener, more sustainable processes, systems, products, services and business models.
Help Realise the ambition, objectives and expected impacts specified in the Digital Europe Programme (DEP).
Contribute to the digitalisation and stimulation of broad uptake of advanced digital technologies by SMEs and POs, harnessing regional AI, HPC and Cybersecurity competences, thus contributing to regional, national, and European targets and KPIs.
Complement and build synergies with other digitalisation initiatives, projects, EDIHs, in Ireland and in Europe.
Harness, co-leverage and amplify impact from existing and complementary investment schemes in order to help create a multiplier effect, enhance spillovers and widen replication, increasing the impact of public funding.
Help realise and contribute to policy objectives in the area of Climate Change and Smart, Circular and Sustainable Economy (the European Green Deal) and other relevant policies (Innovation/Research, Sectoral etc).
Promote regional economic development towards a knowledge based digital economy, help retention and creation of jobs, help address special issues such as impact from COVID-19 Brexit and Northern and Western region being a ‘region in transition’ and ensure smart, sustainable practices across all areas. In doing so, we will build a better, enhanced, more integrated, knowledgeable innovation ecosystem, ‘interoperable’ at the European level.

Northern & Western, Ireland
Atlantic Technological University (ATU)(Lead Partner)
Higher education institute, Technological Competence Centre.


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Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Partner)
A European networked partner with extensive experience in digital innovation in public organisations.


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Gaeltacht, Ireland
Údarás na Gaeltachta(Partner)
Local or regional planning, economic development and investment remit.


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Galway, Ireland
University of Galway(Partner)
Higher education institute, Technological Competence Centre.


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Mayo, Ireland
Local Enterprise Office - Mayo(Partner)
Business support organisation representing a 
network of 8 LEOs across the region.


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Northern & Western, Ireland
WestBIC(Partner)
Extensive experience in provision of access to finance and innovation services.


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Sligo, Ireland

AIM Centre (Partner)
Is at the forefront of advancing technology for manufacturing and supply chain supporting businesses on their digitalisation journey.

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The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

Empowering Digital Transformation
Data2Sustain, a European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) in Ireland’s North and West, focuses on advancing digitalisation and data innovation for businesses and public bodies.

Our funded consortium includes the region’s universities, research centres, innovation gateways across ten locations and all the region’s business support agencies, led by a one-stop-shop Data2Sustain Director and Digital Leadership Group.

With numerous services available, we help advance your digital competitiveness and solutions with data-driven innovation projects, sector-relevant consultancy and pilots, business model development, ecosystem funding access, and skills and capacity building.

We work to combine digital and technology expertise with domain, sector, and industry specific applications across all the expertise and networks of the universities and research and innovation capacity as well as our other partners.

Services are available at a 100% discount to qualifying entities.

Collaboration and Impact
Our strength lies in collaboration and a one-stop approach. Working closely across our consortium partners, and when required , in partnership with three national EDIH partners and wider European EDIH network, we facilitate knowledge exchange and innovative solutions to help drive near-term and sustainable impact.