Funding calls

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  1. SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme

    Supporting academia-industry interactions to address industry informed challenges

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    • Deadline — 21 July 2021
    • Award amount — Up to €100,000
    • Duration — Up to 2 years

  2. SFI Frontiers for Partnership Awards

    Supporting excellent independent researchers

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    • Deadline — 26th May 2021, 13.00 Dublin local time
    • Award amount — €500,000 - €1,000,000 (direct costs)
    • Duration — 48 or 60 months

  3. SFI Discover Programme Science Week Call 2021

    Supporting events nationwide to encourage people, in particular those underrepresented in STEM, or those with less access to STEM, to engage in ways that are relevant and accessible during Science Week and beyond.

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    • Deadline — 30th April 2021
    • Award amount — Festivals up to 35,000 Events up to 8,000
    • Duration — up to 1 years

  4. EU Joint Transnational Co-funding ERA-NET on Quantum Technologies (QuantERA II)

    QuantERA answers the growing need for collaborative endeavours and common funding scheme within QT research

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    • Deadline — EoI to SFI: 30 April 2021 at 13:00 (Dublin time)
    • Award amount — Up to €300,000 for a coordinating Irish-based part
    • Duration — Up to 3 years

  5. EPSRC-SFI Joint Funding of Research

    EPSRC and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have entered an agreement to welcome, encourage and support research applications that cut across national boundaries involving collaborative teams led by researchers from the UK and Ireland.

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    • Deadline — Rolling
    • Award amount — up to €500,000
    • Duration — up to 5 years

  6. SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme

    Supporting excellent independent researchers

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    • Deadline — Awards call is OPEN; Projects call is CLOSED
    • Award amount —
    • Duration — Awards 4 - 5 years; Projects 2 - 4 years

  7. SFI Research Centres - Spokes

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

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    • Deadline — Rolling
    • Award amount —
    • Duration — up to 5 years

  8. SFI Research Professorship Programme 2020

    Attracting outstanding research talent to Ireland is one of the principal ambitions of SFI. The recruitment of world-leading scientists and engineers will help to build the national research base and enhance Ireland’s reputation as a location to carry out high-impact, high-quality research.

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    • Deadline — Rolling
    • Award amount —
    • Duration — 10 years (a maximum of two funding cycles of 5 years)

  9. SFI Discover Programme - Opportunistic Funding Mechanism

    The Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme Call aims to support and develop science, technology, engineering and maths (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

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    • Deadline — Rolling
    • Award amount —
    • Duration — 1 year

  10. SFI Strategic Partnerships Programme

    The Strategic Partnership Programme is open on a rolling basis to applications involving strategic opportunities within all areas covered by SFI’s legal remit where significant co-funding from a company, collection of companies, funding agency, charity, philanthropic organization or Higher Education Institute is available.

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    • Deadline — Rolling
    • Award amount —
    • Duration — up to 5 years