The Ireland-Wales Programme was a cross-border cooperation programme under the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) that supported organisations, businesses, and communities on the west coast of Wales with the eastern and southern coasts of Ireland.
While the programme is now ended, over 320 cross-border projects were supported since 1994 when the programme started, in seeking solutions to shared challenges on both sides of the Irish sea, to improve the economic and sustainable development priorities of Wales and Ireland.
Over its lifetime of 30 years, the Ireland Wales programme stimulated a culture of collaboration between universities and colleges, the third, public and private sectors resulting in innovations and alliances that will continue to benefit our communities and economies into the future.