Current Projects
Our projects are as diverse as the sectors they are targeted at - they span both commercial business and arts sector activity.

Fruition has been awarded the contract to co-ordinate Year of Craft 2011 activities in County Kerry. The “Year of Craft 2011” is an initiative of The Crafts Council of Ireland and Craft Northern Ireland, marking the 40th anniversary of the Crafts Council of Ireland. The initiative aims to make the very best of craft from the island of Ireland more visible and more accessible to the wider public and to celebrate its diversity through a wide range of dynamic events and programmes throughout Ireland, North and South. The initiative is supported locally by Kerry County Council, The Kerry County Enterprise Board and Udarás Na Gaeltachta.

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For Kerry County Enterprise Board Fruition has launched an exciting Product Innovation Programme, (PIP) and is currently catering for 10 individuals with innovative new product ideas who are keen to commercialise their inventions and set up in business in Kerry. Intensive individual mentoring, training workshops plus a combination of fee supports for professional expertise is an exciting recipe for success for these next generation entrepreneurs.

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Fruition project managed the hugely successful Richard Cantillon School 2010 which took place at Siamsa Tíre on the 8th, 9th and 10th September 2010. Richard Cantillon (1680-1734) is widely credited as being the first person to use the word 'entrepreneur' when it appeared in his famous 'Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General' which was published in French in 1755.

The School, located near Richard Cantillon's birth place in Co. Kerry, celebrates his enormous contribution to modern economic thought and to entrepreneurial thinking by providing opportunities for the general public, to debate issues of national, educational, business and economic interest with entrepreneurs, economists, academics, students, and representatives from the media and public sector organisations. New insights collated during the School are accredited to source and relayed as a White Paper authoritative report to Government at the end of the School each year. See www.richardcantillon.com for more information More details on this project available here

SMART Knowledge
In association with Tipperary North County Enterprise Board we have developed a programme that highlights the role and importance of innovation in driving new business models for smaller companies. The topic drivers of the programme embrace idea generation, business strategy, IP management, managing change and communicating value.
More details on this project available here

Driving Innovation
In association with INNOVATOR we are rolling out Driving Innovation nationwide - a seminar and workshop programme that provides a roadmap journey for SMEs who want to engage significantly on the management and implementation of innovation. Project highlights are available on www.drivinginnovation.eu
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Cluid Housing Authority
For Cluid Housing Authority, Fruition is currently evaluating and commissioning an art project in Killarney. The project links a creative practitioner and artist, Sara Foust, to develop arts based activity that uses the topic of "home" as the mainstay of community.
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Irish Fest 2009
Fruition has been engaged by Tipperary North County Enterprise Board and Tipperary South Riding County Enterprise Board to project manage a trade delegation to Irish Fest 2009 ( www.irishfest.com )in Milwaukee in the States. Food, gift, and craft producers from Tipperary will be retailing at the Festival in August which is the largest annual celebration if Irish culture in the States. It’s exciting, great product, and a great umbrella brand emerging out of Tipperary County helping small business owners trade in the States and at a key cultural event in the US calender.

Fruition Training Seminars 2010