December 2023

Programme Calls in 2024 – Provisional Schedule

Early-career stage

Programme Description Launch Outcome

Supporting suitably qualified research

Government of Ireland
master's and doctoral candidates pursuing,
Postgraduate Scholarship Q3 2024 Q2 2025
or intending to pursue, full-time research in
Programme 2025
any discipline

Supporting suitably qualified research

Enterprise Partnership Scheme
master's and doctoral candidates in any
(Postgraduate Scholarships) Q4 2024 Q2 2025
discipline working in partnership with
2025
academia and enterprise
Supporting suitably qualified research
Employment-Based Postgraduate
master's and doctoral candidates in any
Programme 2025
discipline working in partnership with Q4 2024 Q2 2025
academia while employed by an enterprise
partner

Government of Ireland Supporting exceptional individuals at an early

Postdoctoral Fellowship stage of their postdoctoral career to develop Q3 2024 Q2 2025
Programme 2025 as an independent researcher

Supporting researchers at an early stage of

Enterprise Partnership Scheme
their postdoctoral career working in Q4 2024 Q2 2025
(Postdoctoral Fellowships) 2025
partnership with academia and enterprise

SFI-IRC Pathway
Enabling talented postdoctoral researchers
Programme Launched Q4 2024
across all disciplines to develop their track
(Joint Call) in 2023
record and establish themselves as
independent investigators

Lindau Nobel Laureate Supporting the next generation of leading Q3 2024 Q1 2025
Meeting Awards scientists to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meeting (Chemistry)

Irish Research Council-European Supporting an astronomer of the future to gain

Southern Observatory experience at the most productive ground- Q2 2024 Q4 2024
Studentship Programme based astronomical observatory in the world

*Please note this is a provisional call schedule and is subject to change.

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 Principal investigator-led and other

Programme Description Launch Outcome

Supporting eligible researchers intending to

pursue research, networking or
New Foundations 2024 Q2 2024 Q4 2024
dissemination activities within and across
the diversity of disciplines

Researcher of the
Commending the very best of our current
Year Awards
awardees or alumni working in academia, Q2 2024 Q4 2024
industry, civic society or the public sector

Supporting collaborations between Irish- Q2 2024 Q3 2024

Ulysses and French-based researchers in areas
important for both economies

Supporting excellent research addressing

COALESCE (Collaborative
national and global challenges, including
Alliances for Societal Q4 2024 Q2 2025
partnerships with government departments
Challenges) 2025
and agencies
Reinforcing the transnational collaboration
between participating states in challenging
Launched in
CHIST-ERA 2023 multidisciplinary research in the area of Q2 2025
2023
information and communication sciences
and technologies

DARIAH Appointment of a national coordinator for

National Ireland’s participation in Digital Research
Coordinator Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
(DARIAH ERIC). DARIAH aims to enhance Q1 2024 Q2 2024
and support digitally-enabled research and
teaching across the arts and humanities

HERA Joint Research Supporting Irish researchers to participate in Launched in Q4 2024

Programme: Crisis - Perspectives humanities-led, collaborative, transnational 2023
from the Humanities research projects aimed at gaining a deeper
understanding of societal challenges. By launching
the HERA JRP CRISIS, the national funding
organisations involved want to create
opportunities for research that will result in new
academic insights relevant to major social, cultural,
and political challenges facing Europe and the
world.

*Please note this is a provisional call schedule and is subject to change.