Biotech grants in Ireland

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Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.

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Funds €9M research consortia that map, monitor and identify deep-sea species and habitats to guide EU and global ocean protection targets.

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Funds €5M lump-sum projects that build sensor and lab-based methods to map, test and protect Europe's groundwater ecosystems.

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Funds two €4M projects for European consortia building bio-based products and studying whether people will actually adopt them.

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Funds research consortia developing the pre-normative science behind future standards for bio-based chemicals, polymers and other bio-based products.

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Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.

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Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.

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Funds consortia developing biotech and nature-based decontamination methods for war-damaged land, water and air, proven on real sites in Ukraine.

Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.

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Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.

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Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.

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Funds €7M projects that make bio-based additives safer and easier to recycle or biodegrade in products across at least two markets.

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Funds one €1.2M project to map barriers and build industry roadmaps for switching from fossil-based to bio-based feedstocks and processes.

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Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.

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Funds two €7M projects that make durable products from renewable feedstocks and give cross-linked plastics viable recycling, reuse or upcycling routes.

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Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.

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Funds one €20M industrial project making safe bio-based fertilisers or crop-protection products that work in real fields.

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Funds consortia to cut cost, solvent use, energy and water in biorefineries, tested across at least three industrial or demo-scale use cases.

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Funds two €7M projects turning bark, sawdust and other woody residues into validated bio-based chemicals or materials for sustainable end products.

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Funds two €3.25M projects that turn alternative bio-feedstocks into safe, circular polymers tested across at least two markets.

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Funds two €3.25M projects that turn sustainable biomass or bio-based textile waste into high-performing, circular fibres.

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Funds two €7M projects that map how antimicrobial resistance develops in soil and turn it into guidance for policymakers and land managers.

Funds a research consortium that studies why immune-mediated diseases behave differently when they first strike older adults and hunts for biomarkers to predict them.

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Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.