Workshop : building skills for a new Irish agri-food sector
February 25 @ 9h00 - 14h00
TUS Thurles Campus is hosting a key stakeholder workshop with the Circular Bioeconomy Education Centre (CBEC) and the BioScaleUp project to address real skills challenges facing primary producers from these sectors. The workshop is planned as a co-creation exercise to identify skills and solutions that will enable primary producers to maximise economic value from bioresources now and in the future.
The aim is to co-create pilot education programmes with stakeholders that focuses on practical skills training and solutions that turn biological resources into real opportunities.
Who should attend?
• Farmers from all sectors (beef, dairy, sheep, pig, poultry, fisheries, tillage)
• Foresters and other primary producers
• Processors and SMEs,
• Farm advisors,
• Researchers, and other stakeholders
📍 Conference Centre, TUS Thurles Campus, Co. Tipperary
🗓 25 February 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM (coffee & lunch included).
What you’ll get
✔ Practical tools to understand and utilise on-farm bio-resources
✔ Water, soil and veterinary health testing kits
✔ One-to-one transferable consultation vouchers with TUS experts
✔ Real examples, useful resources and meaningful connections
CBEC is funded by DAFM to develop a national roadmap for bioeconomy education. BioScaleUP project is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the EU Just Transition Fund Programme 2021-2027. CBEC and BioScale Up Projects are dedicated to developing skills in Irish Agri-food sectors with the aim of driving the adoption of innovative circular bio-based products, projects, policies, and programmes.
The aim is to co-create pilot education programmes with stakeholders that focuses on practical skills training and solutions that turn biological resources into real opportunities.
Who should attend?
• Farmers from all sectors (beef, dairy, sheep, pig, poultry, fisheries, tillage)
• Foresters and other primary producers
• Processors and SMEs,
• Farm advisors,
• Researchers, and other stakeholders
📍 Conference Centre, TUS Thurles Campus, Co. Tipperary
🗓 25 February 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM (coffee & lunch included).
What you’ll get
✔ Practical tools to understand and utilise on-farm bio-resources
✔ Water, soil and veterinary health testing kits
✔ One-to-one transferable consultation vouchers with TUS experts
✔ Real examples, useful resources and meaningful connections
Places are limited. Please click here to register https://lnkd.in/dbnvz4Mh
CBEC is funded by DAFM to develop a national roadmap for bioeconomy education. BioScaleUP project is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the EU Just Transition Fund Programme 2021-2027. CBEC and BioScale Up Projects are dedicated to developing skills in Irish Agri-food sectors with the aim of driving the adoption of innovative circular bio-based products, projects, policies, and programmes.