Funding: North-South Research Programme (Shared Ireland Initiative)

Sunday, August 15, 2021 - 11:30

The North-South Research Programme funded by the Government’s Shared Island initiative through the HEA on behalf of DFHERIS has been launched.
 
This programme will specifically support collaborative research, innovation and development between individuals, research teams (in and between disciplines) as well as between higher education institutions on the island, up to and including support for all-island partnerships of scale. It will support proposals in and between any disciplines in science, medicine, engineering, technology, arts and humanities including areas of creative practice and social science. The deadline for submitting an application is 18th October 2021. 
 
A brief summary of the call is below:

  • Research can be basic or strategic in nature and can include costs associated with the establishment of partnerships which improve researcher exchanges and interactions, with each other and with external stakeholders. 
  • Proposals should support the achievement of, and deliver outputs relating to, the goals and objectives of national and institutional research strategy; the objectives of the Shared Island initiative; national alignment with Horizon Europe’s mission-based approach and/or one or more of the United Nation’s SDGs
  • Partnerships of scale may seek up to €4,000,000 for projects with a minimum of three years duration and a maximum of four years duration.
  • Partnerships seeking funding for smaller projects may seek up to €200,000 for projects with a minimum duration of one year and a maximum duration of two years.
  • Costs may include buy-out or salary costs for research team leads and/or lead investigator, postdoctoral salaries, PhD stipends & fees, consumables and travel.
  • There must be a minimum of one lead institution/lead investigator/team lead from both Ireland and Northern Ireland (NI) associated with each proposal.
  • A maximum of 50% of any award may be allocated to NI partners.
  • Applicants may choose from three different strands:
    • i) Strand I: Bilateral researcher-researcher projects. This strand will support individual researchers based in an Irish higher education institution (HEI) to collaborate with a researcher in a HEI in Northern Ireland and vice versa on an identified research project.
    • ii) Strand II: Emerging hubs of excellence. This strand will support academic research teams to collaborate on an agreed work programme. Interdisciplinary collaborations will be encouraged.
    • iii) Strand III: Partnerships of scale. This strand will support institution to institution strategic research engagement: Higher education institutions will be supported to collaborate with each other on the basis of their respective institutional strategic research priorities. 

For more information, please review the call document or please email the Research Development Office with any specific queries. If you intend to apply to this call, please complete an Intent to Submit in RIS as soon as possible.