{"id":57845,"date":"2025-11-03T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57845"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:36:00","slug":"catalysts-for-change-ireland-and-the-eu-in-conversation-noel-davidson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57845","title":{"rendered":"Catalysts for Change &#8211; Noel Davidson on &#8216;Trading up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7307\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7307','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=57845-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"C4Cprog2a.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:41 &#8212; 51.9MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"><\/div>\n<div>The series reflects on the theme \u2018Catalyst for Change\u2019 and will look at how EU policies, with input from Irish MEPs, lawmakers and civil society professionals, are enacting change in specific areas such as Environment &amp; Marine Sustainability; Trade &amp; Innovation; Equality and inclusion; Culture and Society; Immigration &amp; Social Inclusion and Ireland in the European Space Programme. The interviews, with inputs from experts, will focus on specific questions, challenges and outcome that will help bring about change. Across a series of six in-depth feature radio interviews and podcasts, Near FM will look at Ireland\u2019s relationship as part of the EU, and how Irish lawmakers, academics and professionals are striving for positive changes that will make a difference in people\u2019s everyday lives. The series will focus on diverse areas including the Environment &amp; Marine Sustainability, Trade Innovation and Gender Equality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This episode is about &#8220;Trading Up: How EU Innovation is Powering Ireland\u2019s Future&#8221;. Our host Emma Farrell talks to Noel Davidson, Head of Training at the Entrepreneurs Academy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Produced and presented by Emma Farrell. Post-production from Paul Loughran. All interviews are available under \u2018Communicating Europe\u2019 wherever you get your podcasts. This series is supported by Communicating Europe, a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Initiative.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series reflects on the theme \u2018Catalyst for Change\u2019 and will look at how EU policies, with input from Irish MEPs, lawmakers and civil society professionals, are enacting change in specific areas such as Environment &amp; Marine Sustainability; Trade &amp; Innovation; Equality and inclusion; Culture and Society; Immigration &amp; Social Inclusion and Ireland in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7308\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7308','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=57845-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/C4Cprog2a.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"C4Cprog2a.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 22:41 &#8212; 51.9MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communicating-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57846,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions\/57846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}