economy aiming to further their viability and job creation prospects. Finally, Emer O’ Callaghan took us through her Biodiversity in Parks & Recreation presentation displaying the amazing innovative work her team have done including providing approximately 100 tiered planters with pollinator-friendly summer annuals across the city, the summer bedding schemes which as of summer 2022 will see 85% of summer bedding made up of pollinator friendly varieties. This is an increase of 55% since 2020. The introduction of new bug hotels. The planting of Herbaceous Perennials, wildflower meadows, more than 500 native Irish trees. Cork City Council was awarded The Green Flag Award recognising our well managed parks and green spaces.
Donal Guerin presented How Social Enterprises can be a Driver of Innovation in Sustaining Community and Economic Resilience; outlining the FOSO-POCO project to understand and assist in overcoming challenges facing social enterprises in Europe; helping businesses improve their understanding of the state-of-play and potential of social entrepreneurship locally by identifying and directly involving relevant stakeholders and the use of best practices and expert involvement to address existing gaps in support available, assist promising social enterprises to pilot, pitch and internationalise their product / services through the networks of the project partners and establish local supports to assist social enterprises in a post-Covid
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