Funding calls

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 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

For information on this open rolling call please visit researchireland.ie

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.

St. Patrick's Day Medal Award 2025

The St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal is awarded annually to a distinguished Irish scientist, engineer or technology leader living and working in the USA.

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.

SFI Investigators Programme

Science Foundation Ireland in collaboration with Teagasc, Geological Survey Ireland (GSI), the Marine Institute(MI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is pleased to launch the SFI Investigators Programme 2016 call.

NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is partnering with the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) Programme.