DCU scholars awarded at the RIA Charlemont Grants Ceremony

Congratulations to DCU scholars Dr Erica Hennessy, Dr Diarmuid Torney, Dr Alanna Maguire and Dr Silvia Tedesco who were among those awarded for their respective projects at the inaugural Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Awards earlier this month.

Funded by the Academy, the Charlemont Grants are designed to act as a career springboard to assist scholars in strengthening their international mobility and developing collaborative networks. These are small grants with high impact and are complimentary to larger programmes offered by other funders including the Irish Research Council and SFI.

Grants are available for short visits to any country to support primary research in any subject area. The duration of visits is generally between one and six weeks in length with the key objectives being to initiate one-to-one collaborations, explore opportunities to build lasting networks and to gain access to ideas, research facilities and complementary equipment. Funds are available to facilitate initial project planning and development, to support the direct costs of research or for visits by or to partner scholars.