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| Funder | Funding Call | Target | Funding Available | Launch Date | Deadline | Funding Duration | Stage | Further Information |
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/ | |||||
| Health Board Research | European Rare Diseases Research Alliance 2025 | The Health Research Board (HRB) is participating in the European Rare Diseases Research Alliance (ERDERA) Joint Transnational Call 2025 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of rare diseases under the call entitled “Pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases using small molecules and biologicals – development and validation”. | €430,000–€530,000 | 13/02/2025 | https://www.hrb.ie/funding-scheme/european-rare-diseases-research-alliance-2025/ | |||
Health Board Research | European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems 2025 | The Health Research Board (HRB) is supporting Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of health and care systems research under the call entitled “Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care”. | €430,000 – €530,000 | 30/01/2025 | https://www.hrb.ie/funding-scheme/european-partnership-on-transforming-health-and-care-systems-2025/ | |||
Catalyse NEB 2025 | Catalyse NEB 2025 | The EIT Community New European Bauhaus (NEB) invites applications for funding and participation in its Catalyse NEB programme, a start-up accelerator designed to advance NEB values across Europe Start Ups’ | €20,000.00 | 27/01/2025 | https://www.climate-kic.org/open-call/catalyse-neb-2025/ | |||
Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland | Research Ireland-WIN Research Alliance Award | Research Ireland and the Wales Innovation Network (WIN) have entered an agreement that aims to support the strategic aims of both governments. The Research Alliance Award is a supplementary fund to active Research Ireland grants that provides grant holders with seed funding with the aim of developing competitive cross-border bids for Horizon Europe grant applications through supporting collaborations between researchers in the Republic of Ireland and Wales. | Applicants can apply for up to €60,000 direct costs (50% funded by Research Ireland to the Ireland-based Research Body, 50% funded by Universities Wales/WIN to the Wales-based Research Body). Grants will be issued for a minimum period of three months to a maximum period of one year. Details on eligible costs can be found in Section 3.5 | 31/01/2025 | Research Alliance Award – Research Ireland | |||
World Wood Day Foundation | Research grant – wood and culture | Funding for wood and culture-related research. | The grant is 12,000 USD, | Deadline of 17:00 GMT on Friday, February 14, 2025. | World Wood Day | |||
| Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland | Pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine approaches (PGxPM2025) | EP PerMed is now launching its second joint transnational call (JTC2025) for proposals on “Pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine approaches (PGxPM2025)”. In total, 35 funding organisations across 24 countries are participating in this call with an available budget of over 36.5 Mio. € (approx.). | Up to a maximum of €330,000 direct costs* per award for Irish applicants as Partner on transnational proposals. | 18th February 2025 (13:00 local Irish time) | Pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine approaches (PGxPM2025) – Research Ireland | |||
| GEANT | Future Talent Programme | The GÉANT Learning and Development Team (GLAD) along with GÉANT National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners, offers programmes to facilitate engagement between students, young professionals and the GÉANT community. The Future Talent Programme (FTP) connects future talent with the GÉANT community and provides a platform for young voices. Participants receive professional presentation training to articulate their ideas and deliver powerful presentations. This allows them to showcase their research to industry experts, bringing young talent and the research and education networking fields together. | 6 February 2025 | Future Talent Programme – GÉANT Community | ||||
| Horizon Europe | MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 | International, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. | Consolidator grant for mid-career researchers. | 19/09/2024 | 05/02/2025 | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-msca-2024-se-01-01 | ||
| Interreg Atlantic Area | High quality transnational projects, which cannot be solved alone. 4 -12 beneficiaries. Blue innovation and competitiveness (Smarter Europe). Blue and green environment (Greener Europe). Blue sustainable tourism and culture (Social Europe) | Projects supported under this call will be co-financed and reimbursed up to 75%. | 25/11/2024 | 14/02/2025 | https://www.atlanticarea.eu/news-events/news/third-call-for-projects-preview | |||
| Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries | Wellcome Trust | This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). | £500,000-£2 million per project | 18/0/2025 | Established researcher | Research Funding Opportunities – Grant Funding | Wellcome | ||
Wellcome Trust Early-career researcher awards | Wellcome Trust | Support for early-career researchers. | Your salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. Certain costs do not count towards the £400,000 | 25/02/2025 | Early-career researchers | Research Funding Opportunities – Grant Funding | Wellcome | ||
Ascend | Request for Proposals on Biodiversity and Climate Change | We’re calling on researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to team up and propose innovative solutions addressing the critical links between biodiversity and climate change in Africa and beyond. This is your chance to drive impactful, collaborative research that can shape a more sustainable future. | 14/03/205 | Opportunities – Ascend | ||||
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 | |||
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/ | ||
| 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 | |||
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 |