Funding calls

EMBO-SFI Workshops Partnership

SFI and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), within the framework of the SFI Conferences & Workshops Programme, and the EMBO Courses and Workshops Programme, have agreed to co-sponsor a number of workshop events.

SFI Partnerships

SFI Conferences and Workshops

The purpose of the SFI Conferences and Workshops programme is to facilitate international and national conferences and workshops of strategic value hosted in the Republic of Ireland.

SFI ERC Development Programme

The SFI ERC Development Programme supports researchers based in Ireland that have submitted a proposal to the ERC Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant schemes, have been deemed fundable, but were not eventually funded by the ERC due to a lack of available programme budget. Importantly, the programme aims to support or improve a resubmission to an ERC funding scheme.

SFI Career Development Award

SFI is committed to supporting and developing early- and mid-career researchers to become excellent, fully independent research leaders and offers a suite of funding opportunities to help facilitate this transition, including support for those who are transitioning to independence, transitioning to leadership as well supporting more established research leaders.

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.

SFI ERC Support Programme

The SFI 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.

SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme

Supporting excellent independent researchers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Societal Good Challenge

Driving STEM-led innovation to address society’s greatest challenges

ERA-Net on the Blue Bioeconomy (BlueBio) – Unlocking the Potential of Aquatic Bioresources