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US-Ireland R&D: How it works

The Partnership will help link scientists and engineers in partnerships across academia and support research collaboration.

Guiding Principles

The Partnership will help link scientists and engineers in partnerships across academia and support research collaboration by:

  • Enabling researchers, North and South to apply for support to travel to the United States in order to develop proposals.
  • Facilitating single integrated proposal submissions prepared by US, Ireland and Northern Ireland researchers through funding programmes operated by the funding agencies in each jurisdiction.

Benefits

To businesses – access to research, commercial opportunities, increased competitiveness
To researchers – global networking, top level collaborations, increased profile, career development opportunities
To Governments – the recognition of Ireland, North and South, as a centre for research excellence leading to increased global competitiveness and higher levels of Foreign Direct Investment

In this section

How to apply

US-Ireland Research and Development applications are considered by a number of agencies in different research areas.

Partners

The aim of the Partnership is to promote collaborative innovative projects amongst researchers across the three jurisdictions.

Successful Partnerships

List of recent success stories from the US-Ireland R&D Partnership programme.