C.C.I.C.C. LIMITED

Their core work

Carr Communications is one of Ireland's established PR and communications consultancies, specializing in strategic communications, public engagement, and dissemination within EU research projects. Their role across highly diverse technical consortia — from disaster resilience to airport passenger experience to energy flexibility — reveals a firm that doesn't do the science but ensures the science reaches the right audiences. They bring professional communications expertise to help research projects engage citizens, industry, and policymakers effectively.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early projects (2015-2016) centered on resilience, disaster management, and human-centric transport — domains where public communication and social media engagement are critical deliverables. From 2017 onward, they moved into more technical territory: crisis preparedness platforms with mixed reality components, factory automation with worker participation, and energy demand response systems. This shift suggests growing confidence in translating increasingly complex technical concepts for non-specialist audiences.

Moving from general public engagement toward communicating complex technical systems (energy, mixed reality, AI-driven automation) to diverse audiences — valuable as EU projects grow more technically ambitious.

How they like to work

Always a participant, never a coordinator — consistent with a specialist service provider joining consortia to handle communications work packages. With 65 unique partners across 17 countries from just 6 projects, they integrate into large, diverse consortia rather than leading small focused teams. This makes them easy to onboard: they adapt to different consortium cultures and technical domains without requiring deep domain knowledge transfer.

Broad European network spanning 65 partners in 17 countries, built through participation in large multi-national consortia. Their Dublin base and Irish SME status give them access to both Western European research hubs and the English-speaking professional communications market.

What sets them apart

Unlike academic partners who handle dissemination as an afterthought, Carr Communications is a professional communications firm — this is their core business. They bring media relations, messaging strategy, and audience engagement skills that most research consortia lack internally. For coordinators assembling a proposal, they offer a credible, experienced dissemination partner with a proven track record across security, transport, manufacturing, and energy projects.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PASSME
  Largest EC contribution (EUR 436,750) — a passenger-centric airport redesign project where communications likely played a central role in human factors research and airport operator engagement.
• DARWIN
  EUR 350,760 in a disaster resilience project using serious gaming and social media — a natural fit for a communications firm handling public risk communication.
• IN-PREP
  Crisis preparedness programme involving mixed reality platforms and command-and-control integration — represents their most technically complex consortium environment.