Funding calls

SFI-NSF I-Corps@SFI Entrepreneurial Training Programme (ETP)

Science Foundation Ireland has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a collaborative framework called I-Corps@SFI to allow participation of SFI-funded researchers in the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Programme.

SFI Research Centres Programme

SFI’s vision is the development of a dynamic, cohesive and streamlined ecosystem of SFI Research Centres that are international beacons of scientific excellence, bringing together a critical mass of outstanding researchers to collaborate at a scale that will yield national and international impact.

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.

SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme

Supporting excellent independent researchers

SFI Research Centres - Spokes

This programme is a vehicle to enable the addition of new industrial and academic partners and projects to a SFI Research Centre, so allowing the Centre to expand and develop in line with new priorities and opportunities.

SFI Discover Programme - Opportunistic Funding Mechanism

The Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme Call aims to support and develop science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and public engagement sector in Ireland by: investing in, developing and extending activity and ability in this area, and exploring and encouraging novel means of engaging the public

SFI Strategic Partnership Programme

Supporting strategic collaborations

US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme

A ‘single-proposal, single-review’ mechanism is facilitated by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health who accept submissions from tri-jurisdictional (USA, NI and RoI) teams to a number of their existing funding programmes.

SFI ERC Support Programme

The SFI ERC Support Programme provides an additional overhead payment to the Host Institution of ERC award winners, which is designed to assist awardees, who may either have won their ERC award while working at an Irish Host Institution or who may have recently been recruited to an Irish Host Institution from overseas, to successfully carry out their ERC-funded research.

SFI Partnerships

The SFI Partnership Schemes aim to provide a flexible mechanism by which SFI can build strategic collaborations with key partners