Funding Programmes

In an effort to help tackle the humanitarian and economic loss in line with the Government of Ireland’s Temporary Protection Directive, Research Ireland offers a supplemental grant scheme to encourage and enable holders of existing grants, and their associated Host Institutions, to provide opportunities for displaced researchers from Ukraine at any stage of their research career to join and collaborate on existing funded grants in order to integrate swiftly into the Irish research system, to enable them to maintain continuity in their research career and to bring added benefits from their expertise.

The Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship is an initiative which offers researchers a unique opportunity to be temporarily seconded to Government Departments and Agencies to work on specific projects where they can add value resulting in mutually beneficial outcomes. 

AHRC and Research Ireland are collaborating on a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. The programme will exploit complementary strengths in the creative economy between centres of excellence in both countries, leading to new and sustainable collaborations and strengthening world-class research and industry capacity across UK and Irish ecosystems.

The goal of this initiative is to build a coordinated research and innovation ecosystem that strengthens Europe’s capacity to prevent, diagnose, and treat brain-related disorders, while promoting mental well-being across all stages of life.

BE READY is focused on pandemic preparedness, aiming to build a coordinated research and innovation ecosystem that strengthens Europe’s capacity to anticipate, prevent, and respond to infectious disease threats. 

This programme aims to support and develop STEM 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.

This collaboration aims to generate valuable discoveries and innovations which are transferable to the marketplace, or will lead to enhancements in health, disease prevention or healthcare.

This partnership supports joint research and technology development in all areas of EPSRC’s remit which covers chemistry, engineering, information and communications technologies, materials, mathematical sciences and physics. 

By fostering cross-sectoral collaboration across human, animal, plant, and environmental health domains, the partnership ensures coordinated support for transformative AMR research.  

This programme provides opportunities for independent investigators to conduct highly innovative, collaborative research with the potential to deliver impact, whilst also providing opportunities for high-risk, high-reward research projects.

The Strategic Partnership Programme is a flexible mechanism for academic researchers to build strategic collaborations with key stakeholders such as industry, other funding agencies, charities, philanthropic organisations, higher education institutes (HEIs), or a combination of any of these.

The aim of the Ulysses scheme is to foster new collaborations between Ireland and France-based researchers by providing seed funding for reciprocal travel visits.

The Research Ireland Infrastructure Programme supports the research community in building and sustaining essential resources to conduct high-quality, innovative research across all disciplines.

As Research Ireland works towards developing a new consolidated fellowship programme, the original SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme will run 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.

Innovate for Ireland’s key objective is to attract world leading research and entrepreneurship talent to Ireland to conduct advanced, multidisciplinary PhD research to address global sustainability challenges.

The New Foundations Scheme supports eligible researchers who intend to pursue research, networking and/or dissemination activities within and across the diversity of disciplines.

A national initiative that connects leading researchers from all disciplines with enterprise partners. Through this co-funded programme, postgraduate researchers develop new, advanced knowledge and skills linked with industry and employer needs.

Supporting excellent researchers to undertake cutting-edge research, create training and employment opportunities, increase Ireland’s capacity and reputation for excellent research, and promote innovation in the Irish research system.

The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship aims to support suitably qualified applicants to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at an eligible higher education institution in Ireland for either one or two years.

The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is unique in the Irish research landscape and complements other channels for funded postgraduate education in the Irish ecosystem.

Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland.

This programme provides a transnational platform to support research and innovation in personalised medicine, and to accelerate implementation into healthcare systems for the benefit of patients and society.

The programme is part of Research Ireland’s role to promote and support an awareness and understanding of the value of research and innovation to society and to facilitate engagement of members of the public with those engaged in research and innovation activities.

This programme aims to support international, interdisciplinary, and transformative research to harness the potential of disruptive technology to offer novel solutions to global challenges and accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs.

By harnessing the power of earth observation, environmental and agricultural data, and cutting-edge digital technologies, AgData brings together researchers, funders, and policymakers to support transformative projects that drive sustainability, productivity, and resilience in agriculture. 

This programme supports talented postdoctoral researchers from all research disciplines to develop their track record and transition to become independent research leaders.