IRC Postgraduate & Postdoctoral Funding

The IRC has three schemes for postdoctoral funding:

Government of Ireland (GOI) Postdoctoral Fellowships

This call is now closed for applicants.  Results are expected at the end of April 2019.

CAROLINE Fellowships

This call is now closed.

Enterprise Partnership Scheme

This call is now closed.
 
 

The IRC has three schemes for postgraduate research scholarship funding:

1.  Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarships

This call is now closed.  Results are expected at the end of March 2019.

2.  Employment Based Postgraduate Programme

***This call is now closed for applicants***

Important Dates:

• IRC Deadline for Applicants: 4pm on 28th February 2019
• IRC FAQ Deadline: 4pm on 7th February 2019
• Deadline for Supervisors, Employment Mentors & Referees: 4pm on 7th March 2019Results expected end May 2017
• Scholarship start date: 2nd September 2019

Under this scheme, Research Masters/PhD students are concurrently employees of an Employment Partner and full time students working on their research degree. 

The Employment Partner must have a physical operational base in the Republic of Ireland and can be:

• a business,
• a company,
• a registered charity,
• a social, cultural or not-for-profit civic organisation
• a semi-state commercial organisation
• an eligible public body.

The employment partner must be in a position to provide professional guidance and mentoring to the individual researcher.

Current employees of employment partners are eligible to apply to the scheme.

Please see the dedicated pages on the IRC’s website for Terms & Conditions, Guide for Applicants, FAQs and other relevant documents relating to this scheme. When completing your application, keep in mind the evaluation criteria, which can be found at the end of the Guide for Applicants (Appendix III). 

3.  Enterprise Partnership Scheme

This call is currently closed and is expected to re-open in the new year.

You can still access the call documentation from the last open calls for the above schemes on the IRC's website here.