Catalyst has officially launched ONEHEALTH, a new €10 million cross-border research programme backed by around €9.9m from the PEACEPLUS fund.

Working with partners including ATU, Queen’s University Belfast, HIRANI, Tyndall National Institute and the University of Galway, the four-year project will apply AI and digital health tools to shared public-health and agrifood challenges by linking human, animal and environmental data.

ONEHEALTH aims to break down fragmented health research across Northern Ireland and Ireland’s border counties, with targets including 12 joint R&D projects, product support for 20 SMEs, accelerator mentoring for a further 20 and 20 collaborative publications or patents.