Funding calls

SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is pleased to launch the SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) 2018 Programme to help develop early- to mid-career researchers on their path to becoming excellent, fully independent research leaders.

SFI St. Patrick's Day Science Medal Award

The SFI St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal is awarded annually to a distinguished Irish scientist, engineer or technology leader living and working in the USA.

SFI Fellowship Programme

Science Foundation Ireland is pleased to launch the Science Foundation Ireland Fellowship Programme. This programme aims to provide successful candidates with the opportunity to develop their career through experiencing first-hand, the diversity of activities carried out by a funding agency.

SFI Discover Programme 2018

Science Foundation Ireland, through its education and public engagement programme, seeks to promote the awareness and engagement of the Irish public with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW)

SFI Research Infrastructure Programme

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is pleased to launch the SFI Research Infrastructure 2018 Programme to help support the research community in building and sustaining the required infrastructural capacity to accomplish high quality, high impact and innovative research

Brussels Conference Programme

In certain circumstances, SFI supports the hosting of a conference event to create opportunities for Ireland and Irish researchers in the European Research Area.

EPSRC-SFI Joint Funding of Research

EPSRC and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) have entered an agreement to welcome, encourage and support research applications that cut across national boundaries involving collaborative teams led by researchers from the UK and Ireland.

US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme

The US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership, launched in July 2006, is a unique initiative involving funding agencies across three jurisdictions: United States of America (USA), Republic of Ireland (RoI) & Northern Ireland (NI). Under the US-Ireland R&D Partnership programme, a ‘single-proposal, single-review’ mechanism is facilitated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) who accept submissions from tri-jurisdictional (USA, NI and RoI) teams to a number of their existing funding programmes.

SFI-HRB-Wellcome Biomedical Research Partnership

The vision of Wellcome, the UK-based global charity, is to achieve extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. This is accomplished through a broad range of funding schemes in support of outstanding researchers and innovative research programmes in biomedical and clinical research and the medical humanities in the UK and overseas, including the Republic of Ireland