Research Newsletter - Issue 73: Funding Opportunities
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The 2022 EPA Research Call is now open with a deadline for submission of the 1st June 2022.
€11.7 million is available for new research projects under 8 overarching themes:
• Climate science, adaptation, scenarios, resilience and policy response
• Improving knowledge on greenhouse gas and air emission inventories
• Health in industrial regulation and in assessment
• Chemicals, hazardous substances and radiation in our environment
• Innovative approaches to environmental monitoring
• Land use knowledge, assessment and environmental risk
• Opportunities and barriers in climate action and in circular economy
• Raw materials and resources substitution and efficiency
The new research projects are expected to start in late 2022/early 2023 and will range from 12-month to multi-annual research projects.
The Call also involves co-funding partnerships with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Geological Survey Ireland and Met Éireann
More information is available at the EPA website.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The IRC New Foundations Scheme will open on 10th May 2022.
These awards enable researchers to pursue research, networking or dissemination activities within and across the diversity of disciplines. This Irish Research Council call will feature one open strand and seven strands run in partnership with government departments and agencies.
These awards are a great opportunity for postdoctoral, early career and established researchers from all disciplines (AHSS and STEM).
Eligibility criteria vary by strand; however, all applicants must, on the call deadline, hold a contract of sufficient duration with their eligible HEI or RPO to carry out the proposed research from the project start date until the project end date.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The Irish Cancer Society is now accepting applications to its Allied Health Professional (AHP) Cancer Research Award.
The aim of this award is to stimulate, develop, and support allied health cancer research in the Republic of Ireland. The award will fund an AHP-led, partnership-based, research project between an allied health professional and an academic researcher. Funding of up to €75,000 is available for an award of 12-24 months in duration.
Applications can be made via the Irish Cancer Society Grant Management System by the application deadline, 24th May 2022 at 3pm.
More information, including applicant guidelines, can be found on the ICS website.
Contact: helen.burke@dcu.ie
The DOROTHY (DevelOp interdisciplinaRy apprOaches to heaLTH crisis collaboratively) funding call is open at the moment. It is a great opportunity for prospective postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines (Humanities, Social Science and STEM) to apply, provided that their research relates to public health crises.
All grants will last 36 months: 18 abroad months (outgoing phase) and 18 months back in Ireland (return phase). Researchers from all nationalities, based within and beyond Ireland, are eligible to apply.
The submission deadline is 23rd May 2022.
For details on the call and applicant guidelines please refer to IRC’s website.
Contact: sumona.mukherjee@dcu.ie
The 2022 Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) Research, Development & Demonstration (RD&D) Funding Programme Call is now open for applications, with Government funding of €20 million available. The SEAI National Energy Research Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Funding Programme invests in innovative energy RD&D projects that contribute to Ireland's transition to a clean and secure energy future. Co-funding partners include the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Department of Transport, ESB Networks, Geological Survey Ireland and the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Funding & Duration:
Small scale projects; up to 12 months: Up to €200,000
Medium scale projects; 12 to 36 months: Up to €650,000
Large scale projects; 36 to 48 months: Up to €1,000,000
Strands:
Open Strand: applicants propose projects within SEAI's remit, which directly address the aims and objectives of this particular call.
Topic Strand: top-down projects developed by SEAI that you can apply for. Please see the call document for more details on the topic strands for this call.
For more details about the call please visit the call website here. The call will close at 12pm on Monday the 16th of May.
Institutional deadline for uploading applications on TORA for institutional approval is on Monday, the 9th of May.
Contact: ecaterina.mcdonagh@dcu.ie
In line with SFI’s 2025 Strategy – Shaping Our Future, the SFI Discover Programme Call aims to empower and inspire deep public engagement and the programme is a key part of the SFI Education and Public Engagement activity. The programme contributes to the themes of Top Talent, Tangible Benefits and A Cohesive Ecosystem. Through its core objectives, the SFI Discover Programme will contribute to growing opportunities for engaged research, to enabling projects that have strong public purpose and value and, through engagement with community partners, draw on multiple sources to improve, understand or investigate an issue of societal interest or concern.
Funding and duration:
- Category 1 Project Funding (up to €50,000 for a maximum of one year)
- Category 2A Regional or National Initiative; and 2B Regional or National Initiative (12 or 24 months - funding of up to €300,000 over a maximum 24 months)
- Category 3A Sustaining Regional or National Initiative (12 months); 3B Sustaining Regional or National Initiative (24 months) - opportunity to apply for additional SFI funding for projects/initiatives that have received previous SFI Discover’s Regional or National Initiative funding over four or more years (the funding does not need to be consecutive).
Application deadline: 21st June 2022, 1 pm (Irish time). For more details about the call please visit the call website here .
Contact: adam.platt@dcu.ie
DCU Invent is delighted to launch Explore, its new Proof-of-Concept Programme, which will make available up to €15K for DCU researchers and academic staff across all faculties to develop early-stage innovations.
The programme consists of two parts:
- Market Validation – Lean Start-Up Training – Part-time via Zoom over 8 weeks
- Proof-of-Concept - Technical Feasibility – Up to €15k for prototyping
Aims of the Programme
- The aim of this programme is to build a pipeline of early-stage research opportunities that could eventually become spin-out companies.
- We want to identify researchers with an interest in creating impact from their research through commercialisation and support them to advance their ideas using the latest methodologies in market discovery.
- This programme aims to advance early-stage ideas and, in some cases, position them for follow-on funding; for example, Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund Feasibility Study (EI CFF) or Commercialisation Fund (EI CF)
The call closes on 29th April 2022. Further information, application forms and contact details are available at the DCU Explore webpage.
The DCU Research Initiatives Fund is a new internal funding scheme designed to support high quality research activities. The specific activities targeted by this scheme are captured under two funding strands:
Strand 1 - The production of high-quality research outputs (i.e. support for new and emerging research initiatives that are likely to lead to high quality research outputs)
Strand 2 - The development of competitive applications to major funders (i.e. support for interventions that will facilitate the development and competitiveness of research funding applications).
The scheme is open to all DCU academic staff and a maximum of €5,000 per application may be requested. The Guidelines and Application Form can be found on the Internal Funding Schemes webpage.
The closing date for applications for the first round of funding (to be submitted by email to rif@dcu.ie) is Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
Contact: Queries can be directed to the Director of Research, Dr Sally Smith (sally.smith@dcu.ie).