Funding Approved Towards the Centre for Design in Kilkenny

Grant funding of €1,843,320 under the Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) has been announced by Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys this morning towards the National Design Innovation Hub to be based in Kilkenny.

The Hub which will trade as the Centre for Design (C4D) will be the first dedicated Centre to promote design and design thinking concepts in the country.

The partners that have been working to develop the C4D over the past 12-months are the Institute of Technology Carlow (ITC), Kilkenny County Council (KCC), The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI), the Kilkenny Industrial Development Company (KIDCo) and the Kilkenny LEADER Partnership (KLP).

The Chairman of Kilkenny County Council, Eamon Aylward in welcoming the announcement today said that: "Kilkenny having been the home of the Kilkenny Design Workshops from the 1960s to the 1980s is the ideal location for the new Centre for Design (C4D)."

Centre for Design Funding Announcement

At the Announcement of Funding for the Centre for Design in Waterford this morning (L-R): Brian Fives, Enterprise Ireland; Claire McInerney, KIDCo; Minister John Halligan, Minister of State at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation; Colette Byrne, Chief Executive, Kilkenny CoCo; and Declan Doyle, Vice President, IT Carlow.

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