Research Ireland Enterprise Fellowships
15th July 2025
Placement 1 – 24 months | Partnership 12 or 24 months
Prior to their amalgamation to form Research Ireland, both SFI and the IRC offered a suite of enterprise-facing fellowship programmes to support collaboration with enterprise. As Research Ireland works towards developing a new consolidated fellowship programme, the original SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme will run one last time under the Placement Stream and the IRC Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (Postdoctoral) will run one final time under the Partnership Stream of the 2025 Research Ireland Enterprise Fellowship Programme.
The placement stream will support academic researchers (at faculty, postdoctoral and late-stage PhD level) wishing to spend time based in industry worldwide. Fellowships can be between 1 and 24 months in duration and can be taken on a full or part-time basis.
The partnership stream supports suitably qualified postdoctoral fellows or late-stage PhD students pursuing, or intending to pursue, full-time research for a period of 12 or 24 months based in an eligible research body while partnering with enterprise.
Research Ireland welcomes applications from all disciplines to either stream.
Placement Stream
Partnership Stream
Feedback
As we continue to develop a new amalgamated enterprise fellowship programme, the former programmes (IRC Enterprise Fellowship Scheme Postdoctoral and SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship) are being used to frame this call. We will seek feedback from stakeholders about these programmes and incorporate these learnings into the design of a future call. We welcome your feedback and invite you to submit your comments via an online form: