Cork Chamber will partner with Fota Wildlife Park, Cork’s most visited attraction to host a Summer BBQ Thursday 18th June. Fota Wildlife Park will open it’s gates to Chamber members for an evening of networking, wildlife-spotting, BBQing and meeting some new friends of the four-legged variety!

Guests will have an opportunity to view the much-anticipated Asian Sanctuary which is the creation of a whole new area at the park covering 27 acres which will make the park 97 acres in size upon completion. The Asian sanctuary focuses on some of the most endangered animals in the world all of whom are from south east Asia. So far it is home to the Sumatran Tigers, Visayan Spotted Deer, Visayan Warty Pig and Lion tailed macaques. This summer Fota Wildlife Park will also be introducing the magnificent Indian Rhino to the public.

Including a breakfast briefing featuring guest-speaker Naomi Fein, CEO of Think Visual

The EEN at Cork Chamber is offering local businesses the opportunity to meet a UK business delegation led by the EEN from the Midlands (UK) on Wednesday 24th June in the Clarion Hotel. 

The morning will begin with a breakfast briefing, where Cork companies will have the opportunity to meet and network with the UK visitors.  Guest speaker at the breakfast will be Naomi Fein, CEO and lead graphic harvester of Think Visual.  Naomi will address the idea of creative thinking and visual communication as a means of crossing inter-cultural barriers, which is particularly relevant for businesses that are targeting new markets.

Following the breakfast briefing, there will be an opportunity to take part in a B2B matchmaking session with the visiting UK delegates, where companies will be able to explore potential synergies through 1:1 meetings.  These meetings must be booked in advance.  See “read more” for a full speaker biography and a list of the visiting UK companies.

On Thursday, 28th May Cork Chamber, along with participants from the REMCAP project participated in a workshop entitled, 'Expanding Blue Growth around Ports and Facilities' at the 2015 Maritime Days conference which was held in Athens, Greece. The workshop focused on the blue growth areas of offshore wind farms, aquaculture, and marine renewable energy.

After the workshop interested audience members were invited to register their interest in building new project consortia which target the priority innovation topics of seabed anchoring, novel fuels, aquaculture and autonomous systems. If you have an interest in receiving information on any of these topics or to register your interest in participating in future project consortia on these topics then please contact Claire.

The phenomenon of content marketing has unfolded rapidly. It is all pervasive and appears across all channels. You need to stand out and we have two brand new courses that will achieve just that.

Indesign Esentials  training course on 6^th & 7^th July 2015 will equip you with the technical skills required to create engaging documents such as ads, flyers, brochures and newsletters. Click here to book.

Inspiring Video Journalism training course on 21^st August 2015 will equip you with the technical skills required to produce and edit your very own dynamic professional corporate web broadcast/youtube video using your ipad/iphone. Click here to book.

Date: 8th -14th July
Location: Cork and Dublin

Asia Matters is organising the second Asia Business Week Ireland which will take place from 8th-14th July 2015. Asia Business Week will focus on how Ireland can increase business with Asia, through a series of business and cultural events to drive economic success between Irish, European and Asian businesses. Business and government delegations from Asia are invited to attend. There will be two events in Cork as part of Asia Business Week 2015:

Monday 13th July, ‘Cork China Business Summit'
Tuesday 14th July, 'Asia Ireland Food and Agritech Forum’


See ‘read more’ for further information or contact Katherine

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Period of the offer available: Summer 2015

The Lee Valley ZipIt Day Out Package includes transport in our 25 seater coach, a day pass to ZipIt and a BBQ or sit-down meal overlooking the stunning Lee Valley.  This package is available for €50 pp (min. 15 people).  Contact David. 

Date: June 19^th & 20^th
Time:.Participants will depart with Sean Kelly from Cork City hall at 10am on Friday 19^th June
Venue: Leaving Cork on June 19^th one night stopover in Limerick arrive in Galway on June 20^th
Cost: In addition to the €50 deposit participants must commit to raising a further minimum sponsorship of €250. This covers event cycle jersey, two night’s accommodation, evening meal in Limerick, full on-road support for two days cycling, three rest stops each day, an evening with Sean Kelly, a party in Galway, transport back to Cork for you and your bike and a donation to Cancer Research
To book: Call Niall on 1890 998 998 or email  / website