Strategic Research Clusters (SRC) Programme - Energy Call
The SRC programme has been designed to facilitate the clustering of outstanding researchers to carry out joint research activities in areas of strategic importance to Ireland, while also giving the time and resources to attract and cultivate strong industry partnerships that can inform and enhance their research programmes. Submissions are invited in area of sustainable energy and energy efficient technologies.

SFI Research Frontiers Programme
The SFI Research Frontiers Programme (RFP) supports research in framework and/or integrative fields of science, engineering and mathematics that impacts diverse fields and that contributes educational benefit that will advance national scientific progress. RFP awards may be up to €220,000 (total direct costs) and are of 4 years duration.

Technology and Innovation Development Award (TIDA)
Science Foundation Ireland recognises the importance of encouraging SFI funded researchers and engineers to develop new technologies independently, or through interaction with industry collaborators. Such interactions can lead to SFI funded researchers becoming more informed about industrial priorities and research needs, whilst allowing industrial collaborators to become more informed about important new science and engineering research developments in Ireland. SFI also recognise the potential opportunity to further develop technologies from SFI funded research along a more applied or commercial path.

SFI Short Term Travel Fellowship Supplement
The Short Term Travel Fellowship (STTF) supplement is designed to enable team members in an SFI funded group to collaborate on research projects in laboratories (academic or industrial) outside the Republic of Ireland for a period of up to 3 calendar months. The budget available, on a competitive basis, is up to €15,000 direct costs for a period of up to 3 calendar months.

SFI/DELL Scholarship 2009 - Young Women in Engineering
The Science Foundation Ireland/DELL Scholarship 2009 – Young Women in Engineering aims to attract and encourage more high-achieving young women into third-level education in engineering disciplines. The Scholarship is supported by DELL which will supply all the scholars with notebook computers.

International Research Partnership Supplements
As outlined in the SFI Webinar dated May 26th 2009, the International Research Partnership Supplement will be closed to new proposals until further notice. The aim is to review the supplement, assess its "fit" within the tightened funding environment and if and when appropriate, reactivate it in a redesigned form.

North-South Research Partnership Supplement
As outlined in the SFI Webinar dated May 26th 2009, the North - South Research Partnership Supplement will be closed to new proposals until further notice. The aim is to review the supplement, assess its "fit" within the tightened funding environment and if and when appropriate, reactivate it in a redesigned form.

E.T.S. Walton Visitor Awards
E.T.S. Walton Visitor Awards support leading international scientists who wish to undertake research in Ireland for up to 12 months. Awards normally range up to €200,000.

UREKA Sites 2009
UREKA Site Awards support active undergraduate research participation for a period of 10-12 weeks in the summer in the laboratories of clustered researchers from Irish 3^rd level institutions. Each supported site has a focused research theme, and engages 10-16 undergraduate student researchers each year, over a period of three years award duration. Awards typically range between € 60,000 and €110,000 per year.

UREKA Site International Exchange Programme
The UREKA Site International Exchange Programme formalises exchange programmes between a currently funded UREKA Site and a similar international programme (eg. REU Sites in the US), having a complementary research focus. Awards support reciprocal exchange of up to two Irish students to the partner site. Awards cover additional student travel and visa costs for Irish students abroad, additional funds to ensure scholarship stipend equivalence, and the Irish lead applicant travel costs to initially establish the exchange. International Exchange Awards can run until term of the original Site award.

Research Professor Recruitment Awards
The Research Professor Recruitment Awards aims to attract to Ireland outstanding researchers, with particularly distinguished international reputations, awards normally ranging up to €500,000 per annum for up to two years.

Nanosci-E+: Transnational Call for Collaborative Proposals in Nanoscience
The European Commission, in line with its commitment to enhance funding coordination within the European Research Area (ERA), has agreed to fund a Transnational Call for Collaborative Proposals in Nanoscience under the ERANET+ programme. Nanosci-E+, the body created specifically to implement this Call, is a consortium of 18 national research agencies from 13 countries in the ERA, whose objective is the coordination of national policies in fundamental research at the nanometric scale. The countries involved are: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

STARs: Secondary Teacher Assistant Researchers Award
The SFI STARs programme aims to engage teachers’ interest in science as researchers, to develop connections between second and third level education institutions and to disseminate new skills and knowledge which can be passed on to pupils. The projects run for up to 8 weeks during the summer school holidays, in the laboratories of SFI funded Investigators. Teachers receive a stipend equivalent of up to 8 weeks salary for their participation in the programme.

SFI Equipment Call 2007
The aim of the SFI Equipment Grant 2007 is to provide additional resources to: improve the quality of research output of current research programmes; permit more rapid commercialisation of a piece of research, or improve the infrastructure available to groups of SFI researchers and their research colleagues. Under this Equipment Call, grants will range from a minimum of €50,000, with requests above €500,000 requiring an institutional cost-share of 10% as a minimum.

SFI Engineering Professorship and Lectureship Programme 2007
Proposals for the SFI Engineering Professorship and Lectureship Programme 2007 are now invited. Proposals to this Programme are invited from all fields of engineering. SFI funding will be €150,000 (Professorships) and €75,000 (Lectureships) in direct costs per annum. A minimum cost share contribution for each post of 20% (of SFI direct costs) by industry sponsors will be required (€30,000 and €15,000 p.a., respectively), bringing the total award value per annum to €180,000 and €90,000, respectively. SFI Engineering Professorship and Lectureship posts may be held for up to five years. SFI expects to fund up to 8 Lectureships and 4 Professorships in the 2007 Call.

Stokes Professorship and Lectureship Awards
The SFI Stokes Professorship and Lectureship Programme aims to support the research strategy of Schools and Departments by funding up to 40 Lectureship and 15 Professorship positions in the 2007 call. SFI expects to fund up to 100 Lectureships and 50 Professorships over the next four years.

SFI Mathematics Initiative 2007
This initiative is intended to encourage mathematical research that has a potential impact on enterprise, industry, science, engineering and mathematical education. Proposals to this initiative are now invited in all fields of mathematics. The approved budget for the programme is €3 million over the next 4 years. The maximum award would be approximately €1 million (direct costs) over 4 years.

Institute Development Award
The Institute Development Award, as a follow-on programme to the Institute Planning Grant, provides Research Bodies with the opportunity to establish long-term sustainable initiatives in the area of women in science and engineering research activities and research management. Grants of up to €250,000 direct costs were awarded in 2006 for 12 month pilot projects.

Institute Planning Grant
The Institute Planning Grant provides Research Bodies with the opportunity to conduct a self-assessment of women’s participation in science and engineering research activities and research management. Grants of up to €10,000 direct costs were awarded during the most recent call in 2005.

Centres for Science, Engineering, and Technology: Campus-Industry Partnerships (CSET)
CSETs help link scientists and engineers in partnerships across academia and industry to address crucial research questions, foster the development of new and existing Irish-based technology companies, attract industry that could make an important contribution to Ireland and its economy, and expand educational and career opportunities in Ireland in science and engineering. Grants normally range from €1 to €5 million per year for five years.

SFI Centre for Science, Engineering, and Technology: Campus-Industry Partnerships (CSET) in SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
SFI has made a strategic decision to establish a Centre of excellence in Systems Biology Research which will be eligible for investment of up to €25m direct costs over a five-year period (€20m from SFI, €5m from Industry).

Overhead Investment Plan
SFI overhead funds are contributions, which are made to research bodies, to the indirect costs associated with hosting SFI-funded research programmes.