Funding calls

SFI President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award

The President of Ireland Future Research Leaders programme is a recruitment-only programme designed to attract to Ireland outstanding new and emerging research leaders in both scientific and engineering domains, where candidates may have both academic and/or industry relevant backgrounds with a focus on research excellence with impact.

SFI Research Infrastructure Programme 2023

Supporting the research community in building and sustaining the required infrastructural capacity to accomplish high quality, high impact and innovative research

SFI-IRC Pathway Programme

Supporting the development of research talent across all disciplines

Research Ireland Centres Programme

Research Ireland’s vision is the development of a dynamic, cohesive and streamlined ecosystem of Research Centres that are international beacons of scientific excellence, bringing together a critical mass of outstanding researchers to collaborate at a scale that will yield national and international impact.

Clean Energy Transition Partnership

Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, alongside the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), is participating in the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP), supporting Irish researchers to develop and strengthen transnational collaborations and accelerate the energy transition towards achieving the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.

EP PerMed

SFI and the HRB are collaborating to support Irish researchers in building EU partnerships on the theme of personalised medicine as a part of the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine on the Identification and Validation of Targets for Personalised Medicine Approaches.

SFI International Partnership Programme

The SFI-NSFC Partnership will fund excellent and innovative projects in priority areas of relevance to both the Republic of Ireland and to the People’s Republic of China.

SFI-Pfizer Biotherapeutics Innovation Award Programme 2016

Arising from the strong focus of both Pfizer and SFI on adopting partnership approaches to translate scientific discoveries into new medicines, the SFI-Pfizer Biotherapeutics Innovation Award Programme (BIAP) was established.

SFI Research Professorship Programme

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.

SFI-HRB-Wellcome Research Partnership

The vision of Wellcome, the UK-based global charity, is to achieve extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. This is accomplished through a broad range of funding schemes in support of outstanding researchers and innovative research programmes in biomedical and clinical research and the medical humanities in the UK and overseas, including the Republic of Ireland