ENTERPRISE IRELAND CALLS FOR FUNDING

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Technology Gateways Programme

The Technology Gateways Programme seeks to establish a network of industry focused applied technology centres, based in the Institutes of Technology (IoTs). A draft version of the application form for this programme and further guidelines is available from Dr Tony Betts.   A second call is now open. Professor Eugene Coyle is co-ordinating this call for DIT. More information here....

Travel Grants

Enterprise Ireland provides travel grants for researchers who would like to visit other EU institutions to discuss potential FP7 collaboration. They will also provide up to €12,500 to researchers who are co-ordinating an FP7 proposal. More info here……………

Innovation Vouchers

The objective of the Innovation Voucher initiative is to build links between Ireland's public knowledge providers and small businesses and to create a cultural shift in the small business community's approach to innovation. Worth €5,000, each voucher can be used by a company to employ a research organisation (such as DIT) to solve a problem or explore a business opportunity. For more information.....

Innovation Partnership programme

This programme supports collaborative research projects between Irish Higher Education Institutes and companies. Researchers participating in an Innovation Partnership will benefit from the opportunity to work with companies to solve real technical challenges and new product/service development. The call is open all year and applications are reviewed on a monthly basis. For more information...... 

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	SFI CALLS FOR FUNDING

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SFI Industry Fellowships Programme 2013

The SFI Industry Fellowships programme 2013has been launched. This programmefacilitates exchanges between academia and industryand provides researchers withaccessto new technology pathways and standards and facilitates training in the use of specialist research infrastructure. The fellowshipscan be awarded to academic researchers wishing to spend time in industry worldwide and to individuals from industry anywhere in the world wishing to spend time in an eligible Irish Research Body, and can be either full time or part time Fellowships.
Deadline for proposal submission: 21st June 2013, 13.00 PM Note: Pre-approval may be required to apply to the programme, please see the Programme Call Document for full details on eligibility.
Deadline for pre-approval:24th May 2013, 13.00 PM Dublin Local Time. All details are available here............. including information about a webinar to be held on the 8^th May from 15.00 to 16.00.

 

SFI awards officially announced

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, has announced funding totalling €39million for 30 flagship scientific research projects.  Administered via Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) ‘Principal Investigator’ (PI) Programme, the projects will be supported through to 2015. Congratulations to Professor Hugh Byrne, Head of Focas, and his team who were awarded almost €1m under this call. More info here……..

SFI’s TIDA Feasability programme

Science Foundation’s TIDA award programme is now open, closing date 31st May. This programme is being run in collaboration with Enterprise Ireland for SFI-funded researchers; or researchers who have been awarded competitive funding worth more than €200k in the past 5 years; or a team member working in an SFI-funded lab. Applications may be submitted for a Feasibility Study award up to a maximum of €100,000 direct costs for a period of 12 months. The funding is for researchers to focus on the first steps of an applied research project which may have a commercial benefit if further developed.
Proposals can also be invited at any time by the SFI TIDA Director. If you have a project idea that requires immediate attention in advance of the TIDA deadline, you should complete and submit a short Expression of Interest form (TIDA Fast Tracking EOI Form) which you will find here................

Professor Eugene Coyle e: eugene.coyle@dit.ie is the person looking after SFI funding programmes within the Directorate of Research and Enterprise but you can also contact research@dit.ie if you have any general queries.

Information on all SFI open calls is available here......

ERC support programnme

The SFI ERC support programme supports the Irish host institutions of awardees of the ERC Starting and Advanced Grant schemes. This programme will assist Irish host institutions in providing the appropriate support to ERC awardees. Awards may also be made when an ERC awardee moves to an Irish institution during the course of their ERC award. Rolling call. For more information...........

Japan/ Ireland Travel Fellowship

The Short Term Travel Fellowship (STTF) programme enables Irish based researchers to collaborate with international partners. SFI has launched a “reverse-STTF” programme to enable Japanese collaborators, whose research has been interrupted by the tsunami, to continue their research in Irish laboratories. Rolling call. 
For more information......

SFI Research Professorship Award

The SFI Research Professorship Award Programme is open.The Call document may be accessed via the SFI website.... It is intended to assist research bodies in their recruitment of world-leading researchers for Professorial Chairs, or similar research leadership positions in targeted scientific areas within the Lifesciences, ICT & Energy sectors. The candidates must be world leaders in their discipline and must be supported with a full professorship that will continue after the term of funding of this award expires.

SFI PIYRA Call Open

The SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) call is open (rolling call) and is accepting Expressions of Interest. The PIYRA is SFI's most prestigious award to recruit young researchers currently based around the world to carry out their research in third level institutions in Ireland. More information here.....

SFI US-Ireland Partnership

Recipients of SFI funding can apply for funding under an agreement between the Irish government and governments of Northern Ireland and the United States. The proposal must be submitted to SFI 6 weeks before the closing dates of calls announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US.  More information here........

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CHIST-ERA call

The Irish Research Council is supporting the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) topic under this CHIST-ERA call. There will be €250k available under this topic.  The funding is for 3 years and will be subject to the usual IRC Embark and Empower eligible costs in relation to Masters, PhDs and Postdocs.  Applicants should contact the Irish Research Council before submitting their proposals. More information here.....

Employment-based postgraduate IRC funding

A new call for the IRC employment-based postgraduate scholarship programme is expected soon. In the first call for this new programme DIT won 4 awards out of the 5 submitted which is a fantastic result. The Programme offers researchers the opportunity to undertake a Master's or PhD degree while employed by a private company or public organisation based in the Republic of Ireland. The four companies / organisations who will host the DIT researchers for some of their time are: Monaghan Mushrooms, Sigmoid Pharma, the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Downey Hynes Partnership (DHP). The four students are: Daire O'Donnell, Kate O'Hara, Charlene Connolly and Aoife Doyle. Now is the time to start identifying companies that would like to be involved in this scheme as well as researchers who would like to undertake a postgraduate research degree. In anticipation of a new call please also encourage all final year students to consider making an application under this scheme. The call is also open to employees of the companies in which they would be based.

Please contact Sandra.Fisher@dit.ie if you need any more details about the IRC programmes.
 

Elevate Marie Curie International Mobility Fellowship

This Postdoctoral Fellowship programme is open to all disciplines and facilitates inter-sectoral as well as international mobility. 

Applicants must hold a PhD and be researchers with no more than 5 years post doctoral experience.  They must be a resident of an EU or Associated Country, currently living in Ireland, but do not have to be an Irish citizen.

• Fellows can be hosted in research teams at international Higher Education Institutions or at other research locations with a sufficiently high international research reputation e.g. national research institutions, enterprise-based research facilities, social, cultural and non-government organisations (e.g. library, archive, museum, institute of scientific, cultural, social or economic relevance to the proposed project).
• The fellowship award is for 3 years duration.  Years 1 and 2 will be based in the international HEI or company and Year 3 in the host organisation.

A webinar and FAQ document is available here....

Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

The Irish Research Council will sponsor five talented young researchers to attend the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry), to be held next summer on the isle of Lindau, situated on Lake Constance in south Germany. This will give those selected the opportunity to meet and engage with some of the world’s top experts and up to 30 Nobel prizewinners in Chemistry. The Council is especially pleased to be able to announce that President Michael D. Higgins is to be Patron of the scheme, making this one of the most prestigious research bursaries ever announced in Ireland. It is open to postgraduate students of chemistry and related subjects.

Please email eugene.coyle@dit.ie with the names of any students that should be considered for nomination. More information here...............

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The Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine has launched a call for proposals under its three main funding schemes: Food Institutional Research Measure (FIRM), Research Stimulus Fund (RSF) and Competitive Forestry Research for Development (COFORD). There are 5 inter-related categories: Primary Production Research; Food Research; Marine Origin Foods; Forestry Research; Supply Chain Sustainability. The closing date is Tuesday May 7^th 2013. Information on this call which includes the DAFM research funding framework  is available here............

There is also a call to develop a network of excellence in Sensory Food Science with a closing date of April 30^th 2013. The first stage of this call is for a PI to submit an application. The network should include all existing research facilities which have capability in Sensory Food Science on the Island of Ireland. Information on this call is here......

Research Plus with a closing date of May 7^th 2013 is for those who already have FIRM, CoFoRD or RSF funding to apply for funding to further exploit the outputs of those projects to bring them to a point which will enable future commercialisation of the outputs. Information on this call is available here............. 

Information here on a new food centre in QUB – may be a useful partner...................... and a food innovation hub in Navan.................

Agri-Marine research funding

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and the Marine Institute have launched a call for proposals for marine research projects relating to Food Innovation, Food Processing Technologies and Food for Health. This FIRM programme includes a dedicated call for marine origin foods research which builds on the investment made by both parties to the marine functional foods research initiative - NutraMara. Research proposals are expected to build on existing projects and develop collaboration between institutions in the area of marine foods related research. The closing date is 7th May, 2013. Full details are available here............

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	MARINE INSTITUTE CALLS FOR FUNDING

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Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Marine Institute,  in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has issued a call for applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship to further our understanding of biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in Irish marine and estuarine waters. More information here..............

ShareBiotech Mobility Grant

ShareBiotech Mobility Grant Applications are currently open for travel and accommodation for visits up to 5 days. Projects must be linked to one or both ShareBiotech priorities: Acquisition of knowledge and know-how regarding advanced technologies in life sciences; Acquisition of management, innovation and business skills to foster technology penetration, promote start-up companies and facilitate access to technologies and development of capacities to enable sharing of technology facilities. Additional details on ShareBiotech website. You can view the Original Page on the Marine Institute Website. 

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OTHER CALLS FOR FUNDING

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Intertrade Ireland's Fusion programme

This programme funds projects that are carried out by a company in Northern Ireland in partnership with a HEI in the Republic of Ireland (or vice versa). A graduate is also employed on the project and the HEI acts as the knowledge provider, providing expertise and support to the project. The project is initiated by a company with a particular technological need requiring the support and expertise of a third level institute. Rolling call  For more information........  

EPA rolling calls

The Environmental Protection Agency provides funding for events and for research-related travel associated with environmental issues. Proposals are accepted 4 times a year on a rolling basis: 31st December; 31st March; 30th June; 30th September. For more information..........

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	Seventh Framework Programme

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Marie Curie Fellowship Grants

The European Commission is inviting bids for the final tranche of Marie Curie fellowship grants allotted under the current seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7, 2007-13). Some €227 million, the highest single amount made available through the Marie Curie Actions fund, will be awarded to around 1 000 experienced researchers this year. The application process runs until 14 August 2013. Find out about Marie Curie actions here..........................

FP7 open for business!

Full details of funding opportunities are available here on the Irish FP7 website.  FP7 Ireland office organises lots of European funding information workshops and events. These events are listed here...............

DIT researchers have made several succesful applications for funding under the FP7 programme so if you are making a submission, make sure you contact the DRE European Research Support Office for assistance; e:  john.donovan@dit.ie.   for more information. To find partners for European funding calls go to Cordis, the European Commission website........ 

New search facility for US collaboration

There is a new search tool is available here.......  , where you can search USA related opportunities in FP7 at any time. Note that you can search any other country too. FP7 Calls specifically targeting cooperation with the USA. A useful document on calls that are specifically targeting research projects with US partners is also available here...

Financial support for researchers making FP7 applications

Enterprise Ireland provides financial supports for FP7 participants based in Ireland. Researchers in Irish companies, higher education institutions and research performing organisations can avail of the supports. More information here......  

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	EUROPEAN/OTHER CALLS FOR FUNDING

Information on EU funding open calls and events is available here…….

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UNESCO-L’Oreal International Fellowships 2014

 Information available here....... L'Oreal Women in Science                        
Closing date is 30^th May 2013

Global Research Outreach 2013 program Call for proposals -
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)

 
SAIT are seeking interest in 55 Special Interest Research subjects under 14 themes. (Medical Technologies, Energy, Ageing, Bio, Metabolic Engineering, Big Data and Networks, Computational Science, Next Gen Computing, Data Storage, Display and Vision, New Materials, Sensor Technologies, Smart device, IC Technology).Selected proposals will be awarded with cash support of up to US$100,000 per annum. Awards may be renewed for up to three years, based on research outcomes and necessity for further research driven by Samsung. Joint proposals will be also accepted through a representative university. The GRO Opportunities are useful as innovation projects and  to put key Global research teams on the Samsung radar so they can experience working together, hopefully, to build to bigger collaborations in the future.
Important Dates
March 31, 2013: Web submission starts
May 24, 2013, 9:00 A.M. Korea Standard Time (UTC+9): Deadline for submission
July 30, 2013: Notification of award decisions begins

More detailed information about the GRO 2013 program is available here........   

Open Research Position Announcement - Student Research Assistant

The Centre for Image Science in Austria is recruiting freelance student research assistance positions on the AT.MAR and AMAH research project. They are not required to be in Austria. If you know someone who would be interested there is more information here.....................
Applications will continue to be accepted throughout 2013 for 4 of these positions.

The Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE)

Intelligent Energy Europe’s call for proposals is now open. Closing date 8th May 2013. All details available here…………

CHIST-ERA - IRC Participation Status

In the Call 2012, two new and hot topics are addressed, namely Intelligent User Interfaces and User-driven, Context- and Content-aware, Communication Networks.
Find out more about the topics and the call here................

EFSA Annual Work Programme

An open call for tenders launched under the EFSA Annual Work Programme for Science Procurement is available here along with a list of all open calls (DIT is registered as an EFSA organisation)

Logistics project funding available

This year the EC will fund a large-scale Demonstration Project (~€25M EC Funding) on Logistics and Supply Chain Security.Your feedback and suggestions for an Irish-led consortium of perhaps 30 partners should be sent to Michael.Murphy@enterprise-ireland.com

Economist Visitors Programme

Economist Visitors Programme to support the work of the Competitiveness Report (2011-2014). Open Call until : 30 June 2014. The purpose of this Call is to attract leading economists in academia, international organisations, governments and top research institutions to participate in the Economist Visitors Programme of DG Enterprise and Industry. Find out more here………

Funding to bring expertise from the US

The Fulbright Senior Specialist Awards provide US academics and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with counterparts outside the US on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other academic activities in certain academic disciplines for a period of 2 – 6 weeks. The Senior Specialists receive an honorarium, a travel grant and accident and emergency insurance from the Council of International Exchange of Scholars (CIES).  Rolling call....more information....

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Arrow update

In February Arrow@DIT had had 80382 full-text downloads and 118 new submissions were posted.

The most popular Papers were: Festivals, events and tourism (1308 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/tfschhmtbook/1

Play and Technology for Children aged 4-12 (1184 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/cserrep/2

Learning Theories and Higher Education (748 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart/4

The most popular Publications were: School of Electrical Engineering SystemsConference papers (4407 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies (4345 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass

School of Food Science and Environmental HealthArticles (2839 downloads)http://arrow.dit.ie/schfsehart

 

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

Vol. 12 of this journal edited by Kevin Lalor is now available at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/

Human Resource Development for Eye Health

The DIT Optometry Department has secured total funding of €637,572, including Irish Aid funding of €458,022, through the transition phase of the Programme of Strategic Cooperation, to implement a new three year project, the Human Resources Development for Eye Health (HRDEH) project. The project officially began in October. The HRDEH project partners aim to train optometry faculty in optometry teaching and leadership, while; in addition, a member of faculty from each university will undergo a Masters in Public Health and Eye Health. Read more here....HRDEH announcement 
 

Clean Technology Project aims to destroy water toxins

Dr Suresh Pillai, DIT CREST, is collaborating with international partners to develop a new 'clean technology' to destroy water toxins caused by harmful algal blooms. This research project also delivers on the objectives of the cross border collaboration initiative, EHSI (Environmental Health Sciences Institute), an all-island initiative based on collaboration between Dublin Institute of Technology, the Health Services Executive and Dublin City Council with partners in the University of Ulster, Dublin City University and the Institute of Public Health. More information on the project here...............

DIT student wins national award in Germany

Congratulations to John McNamara, a DIT PhD student who carried out his research in the German Institute for Rubber Technology (DIK). He has won a national award from Germany’s Rubber Manufacturers Society for his PhD  - Novel approaches to the analysis of localised stress concentrations in deformed elastomers.  John undertook his PhD with the Centre for Elastomer Research (CER) which continues to enjoy a partnership with DIK that has endured for 12 years. Currently Jenny McIntyre is researching for her PhD (Characterising magnetorheological elastomers) in their laboratories in Hanover. Stephen Ronan another CER postgraduate student who also completed his research in DIK was a previous winner of this award.

Space research

Congratulations to the DIT team from the College of Engineering & Built Environment led by Dr Nigel Kent which has made a successful proposal to the QB50 project. Information on the QB50 project is available here…………….

 

	DIT Research Centres Projects  Read more about current projects in DIT's research centres here....
	Research News The latest edition is available here......

 

RIS open for business.

With the DRE’s portal for research information you won’t have to submit any more paperwork to set up project codes and you won’t be asked for duplicate information about projects…we hope it will make your life easier! Please take the time to look at DRE’s Research Information System and update your information as soon as you can. Username: your email address; password: your staff number. Link is here……….

 Matching Funding for Research Projects

Increasingly, funders are demanding greater and greater fractions of any research award be co-funded by the recipient. This fraction of matching funding varies from 10% to 75%+ depending on the funder, the programme, the call, the objectives, etc, etc. It is important that both the proposer and the Institute understand where matching funding is coming from before a proposal can go ahead. If a project requires matching funding, please tell us where that funding is coming from by completing the form available here.... DIT Matching Funding Source Declaration

  

An tSli Ghlas - The Green Way

One of the areas in which Ireland plans to develop future skills and investment is in the area of sustainability and ‘clean technology’.  DIT is involved in an exciting collaboration with a number of other public bodies - Dublin City Council, DCU, Ballymun Regeneration, Dublin Airport Authority, Fingal County Council, and North Dublin Chamber – to develop a green economic corridor that will position Dublin as a centre for ‘cleantech’ innovation, education and enterprise.   Running from Grangegorman to Dublin Airport it is called ‘An tSlí Ghlas-The Green Way’.  The aim of An tSlí Ghlas–The Green Way is to link business to investors and to develop trade partnerships with other green corridors internationally.  Launched last November, already this week it has been accepted as Ireland's representative in the Global Cleantech Cluster Association, a prestigious group of the top 20 cleantech clusters around the world.  This is a very significant validation of the work taking place and an opportunity for future international collaboration and investment.   To find out more here....

DIT is playing a significant part in the development of An tSlí Ghlas–The Green Way and your input would be most welcome.  If you think you might have an interest in developing or joining a project in the ‘cleantech’/green area, or would like to find out more, please contact Andy Maguire at andy.maguire@dit.ie or by phone at 01 402 3309. 

Arrow gets one million downloads!

We have passed the one million mark for downloads of papers from Arrow - 1,003,636 full text downloads since its launch! Arrow  the DIT repository is harvested by Rian: the National Research Portal. The portal harvests material from the 7 universities and DIT and as such is a one stop shop  for access to Irish research. As DIT research is attracting a large number of downloads on par with the universities it is important that we maximise this opportunity to showcase our research so you should upload your research outputs to Arrow. There is a simple submission process or you can contact Yvonne Desmond who will be happy to do it for you. 

You can produce culmulative usage statistics from Arrow such as monthly, quarterly, annually etc. These can be produced both for titles and at a School/Research unit level. If you have a requirement for usage statistics contact Yvonne Desmond tel: 402 7807 to find out how to get the information. 

DIT Library goes mobile!

DIT have subscribed to a service which gives an app for mobile phones. This means people can now search the catalogue, ejournals, Arrow and access the library website on their mobile phones. To gain access use this url: http://www.libanywhere.com/m/476

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SFI RESEARCH NEWS

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SFI receives 449 Proposals under Investigator Call

The deadline for submissions under the new SFI Investigators Programme 2012 has just passed.  SFI received 449 proposals - 295 submissions under the Investigator Projects category and 154 under the Investigator Awards category.

New remit for SFI

Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for Research and Innovation, has announced the drafting of a bill to extend the remit of Science Foundation Ireland to include funding of applied research in order to support the development of research findings into commercial opportunities. The Bill will also provide for Science Foundation Ireland to focus its funding on areas of research which have the potential to deliver the greatest return to the economy.

New SFI online presence

SFI has been putting an increased emphasis on online communications in recent months has set up a number of tools you can use to follow SFI and join in the discussion/dialogue to promote Science in Ireland.  In particular:

LinkedIn – SFI Award Holders Group - SFI has set up a specific closed group on  LinkedIn for SFI award holders. The group can be used to network and exchange information across the SFI community of researchers, including conferences, events, collaborations, achievements, calls for programmes, jobs, etc. or other matters you might like to raise with each other. 

Facebook - SFI has recently set up a page on Facebook with a view to promoting the work of SFI researchers in a easily understandable manner/

Twitter -  If you are on Twitter you can now follow SFI and keep up to date an award announcements, calls for programmes, events and achievements from researchers, etc.

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OTHER RESEARCH NEWS

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Launch of the The Irish Research Council new website

The Irish Research Council has launched its new website, www.research.ie , providing a one stop shop with advice and information on funding schemes and supports for individual researchers and research students in Ireland.
The site offers details of all current programmes offered by the Council as well as links to information on other national and international programmes of interest to the Irish research community. Minister Sherlock who launched the new website also used the occasion to announce the launch of the Research Council’s new Industry-based Postgraduate Programme. Under this Programme, students will undertake their research in close collaboration with an enterprise partner, and will be based in the company. More info here……….. The Chairman of the Council, Dr. David Lloyd, said, “We intend that this website will become the key information hub for any researcher or students considering undertaking research in Ireland. We welcome the community’s feedback and any suggestions as to how we can communicate even more effectively and meet researcher’s needs.”

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COST RESEARCH NEWS

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COST project application online

A video supporting a European monetary unifications, from Antiquity to modern times (EMU) application for  the creation of a European COST network is available here On the website you will find all information on the project if you are interested in getting involved.

How Ireland gets on in COST

Information on Ireland's performance in the EU's COST programme is available here.....  
You can also access the COST Actions (past and current) in which Ireland participates by clicking on “About COST”  and then enter Ireland under the “COST countries” section of the COST website. Here you will find  the Actions listed per country.....

New COST actions

The COST programme funds researcher networks and helps build consortia for an FP7 funding proposal. The latest round of Actions has just been announced and DIT colleagues Dr Louis Gunnigan and Professor Gerald Farrell are part of two of the Actions. You can still join these actions and any of the ones that are still running if there is room - up to two delegates per country can be on the Management Committee. For more information on COST Actions see here........  The latest Actions are here: List of approved COST projects

30 new COST networks funded by EU

The COST CSO approved 30 more research networks at its December meeting. Researchers can apply to join existing networks or apply for funding to set up a new network. The full list of new COST networks is available here................ 

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FP7 RESEARCH NEWS

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Software available to help with FP7 applications

FP7 Proposal Writing and Project Management Software is available here: More info here..... 

FP7 health webinar slides

Slides from a recent webinar about the FP7 Health programme are available here....

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Stakeholder survey for digital interests

DG CONNECT's Stakeholder Survey has been launched and remains open until 2 December. The aim of the survey is to learn more about individuals, groups, organisations and entities who are involved in, or have views on, shaping Digital Agenda for Europe. They seek more information on the areas stakeholders are interested in as well as rating the importance and level of satisfaction of certain aspects of interaction, for example easy access to information and the importance of timely and accurate feedback.  The survey will take from 5 to 10 minutes to complete. Answers will remain anonymous.

In January 2013 the main findings of the survey will be published on the Digital Agenda for Europe website.  
The address of the survey is: bit.ly/daestakeholder or ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=stakeholder2012  If you tweet, please use #daestakeholder

Information on climate and health from the National Academies

The National Academies has some interesting publications based on their expert consensus reports, these booklets are designed to improve public understanding of today's most important and complex scientific, engineering, and medical issues on climate and health. See here for more details.....

New partner search facility for food researchers

A new partner search tool is available from the EU NCP project BIONET. It's a funded network of all NCPs across Europe. It is worth filling it in. You will find the partner search info on the left hand side of the screen. Click here for details.........

FSA publishes priorities on science and evidence

The Food Standards Agency has published its Forward Evidence Plan for 2012. The plan outlines priority science and evidence activities for the coming year, including potential areas for research funding and workshops that will help develop the Agency’s evidence base. Find out more here...

Research directory for social scientists

The Net4Society Research Directory is an online directory in English of actively involved researchers and key players (including Civil Society Organisations) in the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SHH) theme of the 7^th Framework Programme of the EU (FP7).  The Net4Society Research Directory is designed to facilitate co-operation in the context of FP7. It gives you the possibility to find and to be found by key players in SSH.   To learn more about Net4Society and to register your details  log onto............... 

Erasmus Jean Monnet InfoKit available

The 7th edition of the Erasmus / Jean Monnet InfoKit "What's new in EU higher education initiatives?" has been published. It provides information on the new general call for proposals under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union for 2011. You will also learn more about other open or forthcoming calls for proposals of direct interest to universities, academics and associations and about EACEA activities. Please click here to read the InfoKit....(in English only).  If you have any questions email EACEA-ERA-NETWORKS@ec.europa.eu.

  

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  Support Programme

 

The Directorate of Research and Enterprise's Research Clinics are open to DIT staff and held in venues across DIT. More information is available here..  

The DRE's Researcher Training Programme of seminars and workshops are open to DIT researchers and are held in venues across DIT. For more information check here...... 

Click here for the Events Calendar.....

Green Works courses

Green Works offers courses aimed at educating and upskilling the workforce, preparing students for the growing opportunities within Ireland’s Green Economy. Find out about their courses here.............

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New Opportunities for 2012

 

 For information on any research posts or DIT funding opportunities for postgraduate students see the Opportunities section on the website here...........

Opportunities on Euraxess

You can find out about the latest job / student opportunities being advertised on the EU portal Euraxess here............. 

Calls for Papers

Academic Journals provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. All the journals from this organization will be freely distributed and available from multiple websites...this site also has links to upcoming calls for papers Read more....

CFPWiki

You can search for calls for papers on WikiCFP which also has links to IEEE and ACM calls - a lot of ICT calls but there are other categories as well. You can link to CFPWiki here..........

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REPORTS/ JOURNALS

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Science Omega Newsletter - July 2012

Earlier this month, the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2012 brought Dublin alive with science. The great and the good from the global scientific community descended upon Ireland's capital city for the largest general science meeting in Europe, and no STEM-related stone was left unturned. Attendees included European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, astrophysicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, synthetic biologist and geneticist Dr J Craig Venter, and countless others. In this week's special focus Professor Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, considers the challenges that would be involved in, and the benefits that would result from, the creation of an EU-wide Science Media Centre. Read more...

SDAR Journal

The journal of Sustainable Design & Applied Research was launched in 2011 and is a collaboration between the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Ireland. The emphasis is on moving professionals in the built environment from ideologically based green initiatives towards evidence based sustainable engineering solutions. The journal concentrates on papers which present insightful findings to working professionals in sustainable design in Ireland. The current issue is available here ……………

HEA strategy

New HEA strategy report is available here.............................

Forfas Research Prioritisation strategy

This report from the Research Prioritisation Steering Group, which has been adopted by Government, identifies 14 priority areas that will become the focus of future State investment in research and innovation.You can download it here................

Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators

This report provides data on key indicators for monitoring progress on Ireland’s investment in science, technology and innovation and the quantifiable returns on that investment to date. Read it here..................

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PUBLICATIONS

RIAN (the Irish word for "path") acts as a portal to the holdings of repositories in seven Irish universities and the Dublin Institute of Technology and the site is managed by the Librarians' Group of the Irish Universities Association.  For more information.......   

 

 

 

The latest digital edition of Science Spin is available here............

SFI newsletter is available here.......................

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Hothouse.....

Hothouse is DIT's hub for commercialisation activities. Find out about intellectual property, commercialisation opportunities and setting up a new business venture. Hothouse Programme - DIT's award winning Innovation & Technology Transfer Centre

 

DIT Hothouse launches Researcher Video series....

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All events are listed in our Events calendar available here on the DRE website ............ 

In our events calendar you can choose to copy an event to your own calendar or you can set yourself a reminder so you won't ever miss an event that you are interested in. There are opportunities to submit abstracts, posters and to make presentations at many of these events.

We will keep you updated on the main events added each week and if you want to add any events to the list please email us and let us know!

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