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Limerick remote working hubs receive over €400,000 in funding
Limerick remote working hubs are receiving over €400,000 worth of funding to upgrade existing infrastructure for remote workers.
7 of 81 remote working hubs will be located in Limerick and will benefit from the scheme
By I Love Limerick correspondent Ava O’Donoghue
Limerick remote working hubs are receiving over €400,000 worth of funding support to upgrade existing infrastructure for remote workers.
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The Limerick remote working hubs offer a move-in and drop-out office space for business owners, start-ups, scale-ups and a growing number of remote workers.
The funding was announced on Thursday, June 9 by Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys.
The funding will be allocated amongst Innovate Limerick after two successful applications and will receive over €400,000 to upgrade 7 existing hubs around Limerick. alongside Hartnett Enterprise Centre at the TUS campus which will receive €63,000.
As part of the scheme, at least 10,000 hot desk facilities across the country will be provided free of charge to those who avail of the hub.
The project will expand remote working capacity and support the hubs in improving their sustainability goals. This investment will enable the continued development of a collaborative hub network, which will feed into the regional and national economic development strategy, the development of the National Remote Work Strategy and support of the National Hubs network.
The project comes as part of an overall €5 million scheme called the Connected Hubs 2022 Call which aims to build capacity and enhance existing Remote Working facilities.
81 projects across the country were successful in securing funding from the scheme. Seven of them located in Roxboro, Newcastle West, Croom, Bruree and the City Centre will benefit from this funding.
Minister Humphry said in regard to the funding, “as Minister for Rural and Community Development, I am serious about ensuring we don’t simply revert to the ‘old normal’ – the way of life we had before COVID-19. When I meet remote workers across the country, they tell me all about the benefits of spending a few days each week working from a digital hub in their local community,”
“They talk about how their lives are improved now that they don’t have to embark on that early morning, gruelling commute to Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway or other urban centres. Remote Working has been a game-changer for thousands of people. It’s given people of all ages a better quality of life – allowing them to spend more time with their family and friends and work within their local town or village. So today, I am absolutely delighted to announce a series of new measures that represent the next chapter in our Remote Working journey.”
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