Research Ireland (Taighde Éireann)

Supports Research Ireland by running competitive investigator awards, fellowships, and institutional research routes across disciplines.

Research Ireland (Taighde Eireann) is Ireland's national research funding agency, formed on 1 August 2024 by the merger of Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council. It reports to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and funds competitive research across STEM, the humanities, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary work.

Its programme mix spans investigator awards, early-career fellowships, tri-jurisdictional partnerships, strategic research centres, and bilateral co-funding schemes. The named routes in the record include Frontiers for the Future, Investigators Programme, US-Ireland R&D Partnership, Pathway Programme, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, and Research Ireland Centres. Award ceilings in the record run from EUR 34,000 for the postgraduate scholarship to EUR 1.5 million for Frontiers for the Future.

The agency routes awards through approved higher-education institutions and research bodies, with the principal investigator tied to a host institution. That structure favors teams that can anchor the work in a compliant host, show scientific ambition, and fit the scale of the call, especially on early-career and collaborative schemes where institutional backing matters as much as the proposal itself.