Funding calls

Research Ireland Centres Programme

Research Ireland's vision is the development of a dynamic, cohesive and streamlined ecosystem of Research Centres that are international beacons of scientific excellence, bringing together a critical mass of outstanding researchers to collaborate at a scale that will yield national and international impact.

Clean Energy Transition Partnership

Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, alongside the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), is participating in the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP), supporting Irish researchers to develop and strengthen transnational collaborations and accelerate the energy transition towards achieving the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.

EPSRC-Research Ireland Joint Funding of Research

EPSRC and Research Ireland welcome, encourage and support research applications that cut across national boundaries involving collaborative teams led by researchers from the UK and Ireland.

Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme

Supporting excellent independent researchers

Research Ireland Centres - Spokes

This programme is a vehicle to enable the addition of new industrial and academic partners and projects to a Research Ireland Centre, so allowing the Centre to expand and develop in line with new priorities and opportunities.

Research Ireland Discover Programme - Opportunistic Funding Mechanism

The Research Ireland Discover Programme Call aims to support and develop the education and public engagement sector in Ireland by investing in, developing and extending activity and ability in this area, and exploring and encouraging novel means of engaging the public.

Research Ireland Strategic Partnership Programme

Supporting strategic collaborations

US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme

A ‘single-proposal, single-review’ mechanism is facilitated by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health who accept submissions from tri-jurisdictional (USA, NI and RoI) teams to a number of their existing funding programmes.

Research Ireland ERC Support Programme

The Research Ireland ERC Support Programme provides an additional overhead payment to the Host Institution of ERC award winners, which is designed to assist awardees, who may either have won their ERC award while working at an Irish Host Institution or who may have recently been recruited to an Irish Host Institution from overseas, to successfully carry out their ERC-funded research.

Research Ireland Supplemental Grant for Displaced Researchers - Ukraine