Women in Business Network 25/03/2021 With Jewellery designer Chupi Sweetman Durney
Have you signed up for the next LEO Wexford Women in Business Network meeting? Taking place on the 25th March at 11.30 with speaker Jewellery designer Chupi Sweetman Durney.
Chupi Sweetman Durney designs timeless heirloom jewellery to celebrate life's most precious moments. What started out as a hobby in her spare room is now a multi-million-euro business selling to 67 countries around the world.
The business has evolved through a strong digital strategy, taking the Irish strengths of storytelling to the modern platforms of social media and ecommerce.
At 21, she was scouted by Topshop from her first year in college and was the youngest designer to ever work for the company. After a six-year career in fast-fashion, Chupi wanted to create something that lasted forever and which celebrated Ireland’s design heritage - in 2013, Chupi the brand was born.
It has been a rapid journey from Irish start-up to an internationally acclaimed multi-award-winning brand!
We are delighted to see the announcement for Wexford of €18.49 million investment for Trinity Wharf under the Urban Regeneration Fund, a great boost for economic development in Co. Wexford!
The projects are being funded under ‘Call 2’ of the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF). The URDF part-funds projects aimed at enhancing urban areas to make them more attractive places in which to live, work, visit and invest. Four local authorities, which will deliver these multi-annual projects, will receive this funding.
To see the full text of the announcement click below
‘Irish Sea Mist’ from Bridgetown College has been crowned this year’s Senior winner in the Wexford Student Enterprise Programme. ‘Irish Sea Mist’ is run by student Lauren Williams under the guidance of her teacher, Sinéad Fortune. Lauren produces and sells sea-based face mists which use natural ingredients to soothe users’ skin.
Over 850 students from 16 secondary schools across Wexford took part in this year’s Student Enterprise Programme (SEP). Students ran their own mini-companies and did so successfully, despite COVID-19 restrictions. From the 16 schools, over 40 mini-companies were chosen to take part in online remote interviews with this year’s County Judges in order to decide this year’s trophy winners. Other category winners included ‘Evan’s Handmade Gifts’ (Wexford CBS) in the Intermediate category and ‘2 Peas in a Pod’ (St Mary’s Secondary School, New Ross) in the Junior category. These mini-companies, along with ‘Irish Sea Mist’, can now go on to represent Wexford in the National Student Enterprise competition in May.
This year’s Wexford SEP winners were announced during a livestream on YouTube. The livestream also featured Wexford jewellery designer Bláithín Ennis and a message from Mick D’Arcy from local band ‘Corner Boy’. You can see a list of all the trophy winners from this year’s Wexford SEP below
EENginex – Meet the Buyer event for the engineering sector takes place on Thursday 15th April
EENGINEX, the engineering “Meet the Buyer” event, goes virtual this year and takes place on Thursday 15th April 2021. Enterprise Europe Network in conjunction with the Local Enterprise Offices in Ireland is hosting EENGINEX, the engineering “Meet the Buyer” event which offers participants a unique opportunity to engage in face-to-face sales meetings with senior buyers from throughout Ireland and the EU.
It is expected that in excess of 25 engineering buyers, and 100 supplier companies, will attend the event, and we would be delighted if you could join us for what promises to be an unrivaled opportunity to grow your business.
Who is this event for?
Innovative and growth oriented engineering and manufacturing businesses from the following industries:
Food eirEEN – Meet the Buyer event for the food sector takes place on Wednesday 9th June
Virtual Face to face meetings - the new way to successful business!
Enterprise Europe Network, in conjunction with the Local Enterprise Offices in Ireland, is hosting Food eirEEN, a virtual food “Meet the Buyer” event which offers participants a unique opportunity to engage in face-to-face virtual sales meetings with senior food buyers from throughout Ireland and the EU.
Why participate?
Participation at Food eirEEN will allow you to:
Grow your sales
Initiate contacts for commercial, technology or research & development
co-operation
Develop your business network
Share your experience, knowledge and expertise with participating companies
Present, discuss and develop new project ideas
Keep an eye on market trends and identify technology innovations
New PhD scholarships pave way for future technological university researchers
The two institutes of the Technological University of South East Ireland (TUSEI) consortium have announced details of a €4.5million cross-institutional PhD scholarship initiative described as “a game changer for research in the south east region” and a key element in the development process towards TUSEI.
Institute of Technology Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology are to collaborate on a funded programme of 48 PhD scholarships that will see both institutes attract and mentor leading national and international academics in areas such as artificial intelligence, applied engineering and bio-environmental science with the objective of transforming the number of PhD graduates and research and development output in the region.
WIT to compete for SFI Future Innovator Prize of 2 million euro. Competitions focus on sustainable solutions in the area of food waste and plastics
Leading researchers in the Department of Science at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have been shortlisted in the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Future Innovator Prize Programme under the SFI Food Challenge.
The challenge-based prize programme seeks to support Ireland’s best and brightest unconventional thinkers and innovators to develop novel, potentially disruptive, technologies to address significant societal challenges. The overarching ambition of the SFI Future Innovator Prize is to enable the development of disruptive STEM-based solutions to key national challenges.
Deadline extended to 1 April for €12,000 CAO scholarship
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has extended the deadline for applications for its 2021/2022 President’s Scholarship Programme.
The €3,000-a-year scholarship for CAO applicants encourages and rewards people who “show a capacity to shape a better society”. The scholarship application deadlines is now 1 April 2021 via www.wit.ie/CAOscholarship.
Since 2016, the breadth of initiative shown by scholarship students has been across community, volunteering, innovation and creative spheres.
Overview of GDPR
What do businesses need in terms of policies and procedures?
GDPR and Risk
Key trends such as International Data Transfers, Social Media, Website Privacy and Marketing
Q&A
If you have any questions that you would like to be included in the Q&A section please email them to aoife@countywexfordchamber.ie by 29th March
