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| Funder | Funding Call | Target | Funding Available | Launch Date | Deadline | Funding Duration | Stage | Further Information |
| Research Professional | Various | Research Professional helps researchers discover and apply for funding, track funding trends, and improve their chances of success in securing financial support for their work. | Rolling | Research Professional – Funding | ||||
Wellcome Trust | Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards | Funding for discovery-stage projects across science disciplines. | You should ask for the resources you need for your research programme – see the ‘Research costs we’ll cover’ section on this page. You will need to justify this in your application. The average size of a Discovery Award is £3.5 million. Applications above £5 million will be subject to additional scrutiny. | Three times a year – Upcoming deadlines in December 2024 and April 2025 | Awards can be up to 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, and may be longer if held on a part-time basis. The average duration of a Discovery Award is 7 years, although we have supported awards from 3 to 8 years. | Wellcome Discovery Awards – Funding for Established Researchers | Grant funding | Wellcome | ||
Simons Foundation | Targeted grants in mathematics and physical sciences, Simons Foundation | Research grants in mathematics and physical sciences | Rolling | Funding Opportunities | ||||
| Enterprise Ireland | Enterprise Ireland | Rolling | https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/funding-supports/ | |||||
Research Ireland | Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme | The SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme provides opportunities for independent investigators to conduct highly innovative, collaborative research with the potential to deliver impact, whilst also providing opportunities for high-risk, high-reward research projects. The programme comprises two streams: Projects and Awards Projects provides funding for high-risk, high-reward research that facilitates highly innovative and novel approaches to research. Awards provides larger scale funding for innovative, collaborative and excellent research programmes that have the potential to deliver economic and societal impact. | Awards Call: OPEN for applications. | Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme | ||||
| DAFM | 1. European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems – FutureFoodS – 1st Co-fund Call 2. IE-NZ Ireland – New Zealand Joint Research Mechanism – 2024 Joint Call for Research Proposals 3. Shared Island Bioeconomy Demonstration Initiative 2024 Call 4. 2024 US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership in Agriculture 5. 2024 ICT-AGRI-FOOD Joint Call on “Tackling Digitalisation for Sound Agriculture and Food Systems” 6. The European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare, The 1st Co-funded Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects 7. 2024 Green ERAHUB Joint International Funding Call on “Crop and livestock farming meeting the challenges of climate change” | 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 | |||||
European Commission | Boosting Competitiveness and Innovation Capacity of SMEs through creative partnerships and the use of new technologies – WORTH partnership project | The general objective of this call is to enhance the competitiveness, sustainability, and innovation of European design-intensive creative and lifestyle industries, particularly in sectors like fashion and home decoration. The WORTH Partnership Project supports transnational business partnerships between SMEs (e.g. manufacturers, crafters, tech-providers) on the one hand and designers or other creative professionals on the other. Throughout an incubation and acceleration process, these business partnerships work to develop innovative, design- and creativity-driven products, processes or services with high value-added helping them either embark on a sustainable business path or enhance their competitive position. | The estimated available call budget is EUR 4 500 000: | 23-Jan-25 | 3 April 2025, 17:00 (CEST) | https://eismea.ec.europa.eu/funding-opportunities/calls-proposals/boosting-competitiveness-and-innovation-capacity-smes-through-creative-partnerships-and-use-new_en | ||
Research Ireland | Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate) | The Enterprise Partnership Scheme is a national initiative linking excellent researchers in all disciplines to enterprise; in the context of this call, enterprise partners can range from multinational corporations to SMEs, non-governmental organisations, and, where justified, public sector agencies. The scheme provides researchers with the opportunity to pursue research in collaboration with enterprise while based at an eligible research body. | The award will support suitably qualified research master’s and doctoral candidates pursuing, or intending to pursue, full-time research in any discipline. The duration of these awards ranges from one to four years and comprise: | 26/02/2025 | 10/4/2025 | Enterprise Partnership Scheme (Postgraduate) – Research Ireland | ||
European Research Council | ERC Proof of Concept (2025) | Support for proof-of-concept research. | Work Programme 2024 will continue to award Proof of Concept Grants on the basis of a lump sum of EUR 150,000 for a period of 18 months | 13-Mar-2025 / 18-Sep-2025 | RC Proof of Concept Grant: Bridging Research and Innovation | |||
Research Ireland | Innovate for Ireland Programme | nnovate for Ireland’s key objective is to attract world leading research and entrepreneurship talent to Ireland to conduct advanced, multidisciplinary PhD research to address global sustainability challenges. The Innovate for Ireland 2025 Programme is now open for applications, with two funding streams: Thematic Cohort stream – for applications to host a Cohort of iScholars working on research related to two specific thematic areas under the overall Innovate for Ireland Programme. The themes for the 2025 thematic cohort stream are: | 19-Mar-25 | Innovate for Ireland Programme – Research Ireland | ||||
eit RawMaterials | Calling on innovative solutions that minimise the environmental impact in the mining, forest, and steel industries. – Students | . The winning team can expect a €10.000 prize, while the second and third teams will receive €3000 and €2000, respectively. | 30th March 2025 | Tapojärvi Open Innovation Challenge 2025 for Students | EIT RawMaterials – Developing raw materials into a major strength for Europe | ||||
| Wellcome Trust | Wellcome Career Development Awards | This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. | The annual expenditure for a Career Development Award is usually below £250,000 | 03-Apr-25 | Research Funding Opportunities – Grant Funding | Wellcome | |||
| Science Foundation Ireland | SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme | Independent investigators conducting highly innovative, collaborative research with the potential to deliver impact, whilst also providing opportunities for high-risk, high-reward research projects. | Award: €600,000 – €1,500,000 (direct costs) | Open Call (Awards Only) | Awards 4 – 5 years; Projects 2 – 4 year | https://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/frontiers-for-the-future/ | ||
Research Ireland | European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-NET (CHIST-ERA) | European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-NET (CHIST-ERA) – Research Ireland | 10/2/2025 | 15/04/2025 | European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-NET (CHIST-ERA) – Research Ireland | |||
| Science Foundation Ireland | US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme | Increase the level of collaborative R&D amongst researchers and industry across the three jurisdictions of United States of America, Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland. | SFI: €350,000 | Open Call | 3 – 5 years | https://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/us-ireland-rd-partnership/index.xml | ||
| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council & SFI | EPSRC-SFI Joint Funding of Research | Encourage and support research applications that cut across national boundaries involving collaborative teams led by researchers from the UK and Ireland. | Open Call | Up to 5 years | https://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/epsrc-sfi-partnership/index.xml | |||
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. | 9 April 2025 | 10-Sep-25 | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions | |||
Research Ireland | Ulysses 2026 | The aim of the Ulysses scheme is to foster new collaborations between Ireland and France-based researchers by providing seed funding for reciprocal travel visits. The scheme thus facilitates the exchange of innovative ideas and approaches across all disciplines. Applications meeting the eligibility criteria will be accepted from both Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Arts, Humanities and Social Science (AHSS) scholars in any discipline.his year, selected research projects will also be supported by the following strategic partners: Electricity transmission system operator EirGrid will partner with France-based Réseau de Transport d’Électricité to support suitably aligned research projects in the area of enewable energies and smart grids. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, will provide support to research projects exploring topics relating to sustainable energies. | In order to facilitate more collaborative engagements, funding is now provided over the course of 2 calendar years, with €5,000 awarded to both Ireland and France-based research partners. | 20/02/2025 | 6/5/2025 | Ulysses 2026 – Research Ireland | ||
Horizon Europe (HORIZON) | Enhancing the European R&I system (HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02) | 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 | US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme | HRB | Health Research Board | 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 | |||
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions | MSCA Staff Exchange 2025 | Staff exchanges to foster international collaboration. | 27th March 2025 | 08-Oct-25 | MSCA Staff Exchanges – European Commission | |||
European Innovation Council | EIC Pathfinder Open | he 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 2025 | 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 | HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025 | 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) |