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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 | |||||
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/ | ||
| HORIZON-ERC HORIZON ERC Grants | The Starting Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators starting or having recently started their own independent research team or programme. A Starting Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of the potential for research independence, for example, by having produced at least one important publication as its main author or a publication without the participation of their PhD supervisor. | Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum size of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. Additional funding up to EUR 1 000 000 * can be requested to cover further eligible costs (e.g. start-up costs, major equipment, access to large facilities, major experimental and field work costs) when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work. The requests for additional funding must be duly justified in the proposal. | 14 October 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time | EU Funding & Tenders Portal | |||
| Horizon Europe (HORIZON) | The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale. | Synergy Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 10 000 000 for a period of 6 years. The maximum award is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration. This does not apply to ongoing projects. Additional funding up to EUR 4 000 000 * can be requested to cover further eligible costs (e.g. start-up costs, major equipment, access to large facilities, major experimental and field work costs) when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work. The requests for additional funding must be duly justified in the proposal. | 05 November 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/calls-for-proposals?callIdentifier=ERC-2026-SYG | |||
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/ | ||
| Irish Cancer Society Research | Call Announcement: Irish Cancer Society Clinician Research Leadership Award 2025 | The successful applicant of this award will be supported with €150,000 funding to enable them to develop their position as a leader of oncology research in Ireland. | 3pm, 6th October 2025 | Irish Cancer Society – Online Portal | |||
| National Disability Authority | The RPS 2025-26 theme is Disability in Marginalised Groups and Communities with particular interest in proposals focused on disability issues in Traveller and/or Roma communities. | We anticipate awarding up to three grants and are open to individual grant applications for varying amounts between €15,000 and €40,000 with the total funding available not exceeding €80,000. | 12 noon on Monday 6th October 2025. | NDA Research Promotion Scheme 2025-26: Disability in Marginalised Groups and Communities – National Disability Authority | |||
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 | |||
| Royal Irish Academy | The Charlemont scheme speaks to one of the RIA’s fundamental missions to identify and encourage excellence in research and scholarship, and to support the development of international links and collaborations by early career researchers. | Applications for between €1,000 and €2,500 are invited. Applicants are asked to read the guidelines for applicants carefully before submitting an application. | 17:00 on Thursday 23 October 2025 | Charlemont Grants scheme for early career researchers open until 23 October – Royal Irish Academy | |||
| 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 | |||
| Research Ireland | The QuantERA III Joint Transnational Call 2025 is aimed at collaborative, transnational research consortia in the field of quantum technologies (QT), with projects focused either on Quantum Phenomena & Resources or Applied Quantum Science. Research Ireland+1 Its goal is to foster cutting-edge, high-risk/high-reward, interdisciplinary advances (low to mid technology readiness levels) in quantum science and engineering across Europe and partner countries, strengthen Europe’s leadership in quantum technologies, and stimulate innovation and cross-sector collaboration (including industry, SMEs, early-career researchers). | 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 in direct costs, €405,000 including overheads, per award for Irish-based applicants applying as a project partner. Up to a maximum of €405,000 in direct costs, €530,000 including overheads, per award for Irish-based applicants applying as a project coordinator. | 5 December 2025 | QuantERA – Research Ireland | |||
| 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/ | |||
| Research Ireland | The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership – Joint Transnational Call 2025 Its purpose is to accelerate the green and digital transitions in maritime sectors, promote sustainable use of marine and coastal resources, support resilient coastal communities and businesses, and foster innovation across sea basins (Atlantic, Baltic, Black Sea, Mediterranean, North Sea). The call seeks impact-driven projects with strong stakeholder involvement (industry, policy, local communities), over about 36 months, under priority themes such as Digital Twins of the Ocean, bioresources, marine multi-use infrastructures etc. | 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 €430,000, for a partner and €530,000 for applicants who take on the role of coordinator. | 17 November 2025 | 17 June 2026 | The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership – Research Ireland |