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LIFT: developing drone airframes at scale

Composite aircraft structure at ÉireComposites
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IONA leads LIFT, a €3.8 million consortium project with ÉireComposites and TU Dublin, funded through Ireland’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund. The partners are developing composite materials and manufacturing processes for drone airframes.

In its January update, CREST Technology Gateway confirmed that the consortium had held the project kickoff and begun planning the first stages of work.

Read the partner announcement
CREST project kickoff · 23 January 2026