Co-operation Ireland has been working with our friends in the Special EU Programmes Body for decades and this partnership has impacted thousands of people.

No project sums this up better than the Future Innovators programme which offered support to fledgling social enterprises to tackle grass roots issues while that can be used to create sustainable funding for their work.

This article by journalist Amanda Ferguson gives a brilliant insight into how this programme has made a real difference. She also has a chat with our CEO Peter Sheridan about his journey in peace building.