Contact EMRA
Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly
3rd Floor North, Ballymun Civic Centre
Main Street, Ballymun
Dublin 9, D09 C8P5
Ireland
+353 (0) 1 8074482
The EU Just Transition Fund (JTF) will focus on three priority areas of investment.
These priority areas are designed to complement each other to address employment, economic, social and environmental impacts from the cessation of peat production for energy generation in the wider Midlands area. They are also complemented by other EU funding programmes.
PRIORITY 1
Generating employment for former peat communities by investing in the diversification of the local economy – €87m
| What? | Delivery Partners |
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| Support the economic diversification of the local economy through the development of the regenerative Tourism sector. |  |
| Support the implementation of local and regional economic strategies. |  |
| Support research, development and innovation in the bioeconomy sector. |  |
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PRIORITY 2
Supporting the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded peatlands and regeneration and repurposing of industrial heritage assets – €57m
| What? | Delivery Partners |
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| Support the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded peatlands. |  |
| Research, knowledge transfer and monitoring activities on rewetting measures for farmed peat soils. | |
| Regeneration and repurposing of industrial heritage assets. | |
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| What? | Delivery Partners |
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| Decarbonisation of public local bus route(s). |   |
| Support decarbonisation of fleet for private bus operators. | |
| Installation of publicly available charge point infrastructure at community centre sites. |  |
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