Research Funding

The research landscape  in Ireland has changed in recent years. The report by the Royal Irish Academy,   Advancing Humanities and Social Sciences Research in Ireland provides a good overview of the current and future changes in research in the Social Sciences.

IRCHSS Supports two new Eurocores research programmes:

EuroBABEL Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages
The main purpose of the EUROCORES programme EuroBABEL: Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages is to promote empirical research on underdescribed endangered languages, both spoken and signed, that aims at changing and refining our ideas about linguistic structure in general and about language in relation to cognition, social and cultural organisation and related issues in a trans-/ multi-disciplinary perspective.

EuroHESC Higher Education and Social Change
The main purpose of EuroHESC is to develop and implement a programme of interdisciplinary comparative research into the relationship between higher education and society.  This will include the development of theories and hypotheses about this relationship and the factors which influence it, as well as addressing methodological issues of comparative research in this field (e.g. data comparability, combination of quantative and qualitative research, and different levels of analysis).
Programme of strategic cooperation between irish aid and higher education and research institutes 2007-2011

For details go to the  IRCHSS website.

Programme of strategic cooperation between irish aid and higher education and research institutes 2007-2011

The aim of this scheme is to promote innovative research activity across a range of subject areas in support Irish Aid’s mission in reducing poverty through a programme of strategic cooperation with higher education and research institutes in Ireland and in partner countries. Proposals supported will provide a framework for institutions to engage with issues related to poverty reduction through meaningful partnerships both at home and in the Irish Aid Programme Countries. 

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European Framework fp7

FP7 is the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. This is the EU's main instrument for funding research in Europe and it will run from 2007 to 2013.

The Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) bundles all research-related EU initiatives together under a common roof playing a crucial role in reaching the goals of growth, competitiveness and employment; along with a new Competitiveness and Innovation Frameowrk (CIP), Education and Training programmes, and Structural and Cohesion Funds for regional convergence and competitiveness. It is also a key pillar for the European Research Area. 

There are numerous opportunities for development related research - particularly in the area of Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities

There are two deadlines for FP7. Some topics have a deadline of 10th May 2007. The second deadline is the 29th November 2007. For more information on FP7 click here.

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