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| Funder | Target | Funding Available | Launch Date | Deadline | Funding Duration | Stage | Further Information |
| Enterprise Ireland | Rolling | https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/ | |||||
| DAFM | DAFM previously operated three separate ‘public good’ competitive research funding programmes covering agriculture ‘Research Stimulus Fund (RSF)’, food ‘Food Institutional Research Measure (FIRM), and forestry ‘Programme of Competitive Forest Research for Development (CoFoRD)’. In December 2020, DAFM updated this Programme which now comprises of the following five strands: 1. Thematic Research Strand: 2.International Outreach Strand:3. Strategic Studies Strand: 4 5. Coordination and Support Activities: | gov.ie – Research – Open Calls | |||||
Horizon Europe | Sustain-FIT is an innovative postdoctoral research programme launched in 2025 and co-funded by Enterprise Ireland and the European Union. It aims to provide international and intersectoral mobility to incoming researchers to the Republic of Ireland in the area of industrially focused climate action and sustainability research. | Through this programme, 50 talented, experienced researchers will be awarded a three-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, and benefit from a structured career development framework including a mandatory 6-12 month secondment to the partner enterprise. | 15:00 (Irish time), 28th August 2025 | ||||
Horizon Europe | ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal. | Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 500 000 for a period of 5 years (the maximum amount of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration). | 28 August 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERC-2025-ADG?order=DESC&pageNumber=1&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate&isExactMatch=true&status=31094501,31094502,31094503&frameworkProgramme=43108390&callIdentifier=ERC-2025-ADG | |||
Horizon Europe (HORIZON) | This action will promote implementing the standards for attractive careers as laid down in the new Charter for Researchers and the Council recommendation on a European framework for research careers[1], responding to the political call for “labour market players to join forces for attractive careers”. It will support cooperation between academic, private and public sector entities at organisational level to create ecosystems that ensure attractive early research careers perspectives, provide researchers with skill sets that match labour market requirements, thus providing the talent pool needed for a truly functioning internal market for knowledge. | a stipend of €25,000 per annum; | 15/05/2025 | 25/09/2025 | Enhancing the European R&I system (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02) | ||
Health Board Research | The US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme is run jointly by funding agencies across three jurisdictions: United States of America, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Programme aims to increase the level of collaborative R&D among researchers and industry professionals across the three jurisdictions. It covers the full remit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | Up to €700,000 | 11/10/2028 | US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme | HRB | Health Research Board | |||
The Health Research Board (HRB) | his scheme replaces the former Clinician Scientist Fellowships (CSF) and is designed to support talented health and social care practitioners who wish to advance applied health and social care research at post-PhD level (or equivalent level of experience and competence), while continuing to deliver patient or social care. | €80,000 | Opens 1st Oct 2025 | Research in-Practice Fellowships for Health and Social Care Practitioners (RFP) (prev Clinician Scientist Fellowships) | HRB | Health Research Board | |||
EIT Urban Mobility | EIT Urban Mobility invites innovators from across Europe to submit a proposal to its Strategic Innovation Open Call, designed to accelerate the deployment of impactful solutions that address the most pressing challenges in urban mobility. | Each project may receive up to 2 million EUR of EIT funding. EIT Urban Mobility will reimburse up to 65% of the eligible project costs, while the minimum co-funding rate for all proposals is 35%. | 1st cut-off date: 23 September 2025 | ||||
Research Ireland | The Innovating in Health and Wellbeing Challenge aims to support the development and implementation of effective, scalable and sustainable solutions that address complex health and wellbeing challenges in Ireland. It will do so by: Fostering collaboration between researchers, stakeholders, and beneficiaries of research in the health and wellbeing ecosystem; Incentivising the convergence of knowledge, practice, and methods from multiple disciplines and sectors across the system; Facilitating the generation of new knowledge and innovative approaches relevant for health and wellbeing challenges. | 10th October 2025 | Innovating in Health and Wellbeing Challenge – Research IrelandInnovating in Health and Wellbeing Challenge – Research Ireland | ||||
Research Ireland | Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme – Postgraduate researchers | Up to €31,000 per annum total | 11-Sep-25 | 23-Oct-25 | https://research.ie/funding/government-ireland-postgraduate/ | ||
| Research Ireland | Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme | Postdoc fellowships; salary ~€46k (Year 1) and ~€48k (Year 2), plus €5k/year research expenses | 11-Sep-25 | 23 Oct 2025, 16:00 | https://research.ie/funding/government-ireland-postdoctoral/ | ||
Health Research Board (HRB) | Investigator‑Led Projects (ILP) 2026 | Investigator-led health and social care research; up to €330k direct costs (total €430k incl. overhead) | 5-Aug-25 | 14-Oct-25 | https://www.hrb.ie/funding-schemes/investigator-led-projects-ilp-2026 | ||
NDA Research Promotion Scheme 2025‑26 | National Disability Authority | Grants for research on disability in marginalised groups, up to €40k each, max total €80k | 18-Aug-25 | 6 Oct 2025, 12:00 | National Disability Authority | ||
Research Ireland / Gas Networks Ireland | Research Ireland – Gas Networks Ireland Innovation Challenge | Pilot initiative for renewable gas solutions in Ireland; phased challenge (Concept, Seed, Prize) | Open Now | 26-Sep-25 | https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/gas-networks-challenge/ | ||
Research Ireland | Research Ireland Investigators Programme Flagship programme funding cutting-edge research to build capacity, attract talent, support innovation | Up to €625,000 direct costs, 4 years | Open now; EoI stage | 17-Sep-25 | https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/investigators/ | ||
| Research Ireland | Innovating in Health and Wellbeing Challenge Supports scalable solutions to complex health & wellbeing challenges; phased challenge funding | Up to €250k direct costs; €1M prize | 14 July 2025 (SESAME opens) | 10-Oct-25 | https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/health-wellbeing-challenge/ | ||
EUP OHAMR (EU Horizon Europe) | Research & Innovation Call 2025 (EUP OHAMR) Transnational call to develop innovative, cost-effective treatment options (AMR, diagnostics, access barriers) | Nov-25 | https://ohamr.eu/2025/06/12/research-call-2025/ | ||||
Lister Institute | Lister Institute Research Prize Research Prize for early-career biomedical researchers—£300,000 over 5 years | £300,000 over 5 years | Jul-25 | 29-Sep-25 | https://lister-institute.org.uk/how-to-apply/ | ||
European Innovation Council | The EIC Pathfinder is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to research teams by: funding research to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies supporting the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech R&D aiming to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities realising innovative technological solutions to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations in Europe | 21-May-25 | 29-Oct-25 | https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-pathfinder_en | |||
| Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions | MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. | 28 May 2025 | 25-Nov-25 | MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions | |||
| Circular Bio Based Europe | CBE JU calls follow the rules and procedures of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme. Find more information about Horizon Europe’s funding opportunities. | Call budget: €165 million | 4th April 2025 | 17th September 2025 | Open calls for proposals | Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) | ||
Research Ireland | Research Ireland and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) are 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. | Awarded projects will have a duration of up to 36 months. For applicants based in Ireland, Research Ireland will provide the following funding for projects: Up to a maximum of €330,000 direct costs* per award for Irish applicants as Partner on transnational proposals. Up to a maximum of €405,000 direct costs* per award for Irish applicants as Coordinator on transnational proposals. *The maximum total award, including overhead contribution, will be €405,000, for a partner and €530,000 for applicants who take on the role of coordinator. | 12th March 2026 | https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/clean-energy-transition/ |